[Feedback] integrating frettunes.com guitar music download store into amarok

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Hi Steve,

I checked out your store, and it looks really cool. We at Amarok like
drm free mp3's and FLAC! :-)

As an extension of the work I did integrating the Magnatune.com store
into Amarok, I am working on a framework for easily adding other
stores and services. This framework is not really complete yet, but it
works well enough that I have also built a simple Jamendo.com browser
on top of it.

The main issue I see with using this framework to integrate your
store, is that the frameworks makes a strong assumption that all
tracks can be previewed, which, as far as I can tell, is not the case
with your store.

Also, as I have just been hired by Magnatune to work full time on
getting their upcoming services well integrated into Amarok as well as
getting Amarok2 ready for release on Linux, Windows and Mac, it is
unlikely that I will be able to find the time to actually do the
integration work.

However, if you are interesting in taking on this task yourself (or
finding someone else who will) I will be happy to help out. And
really, building it on top of the service framework is not that big of
a task as much code can be borrowed from the Magnatune and Jamendo
service and all the plumbing code is handled by the framework.

- Nikolaj


On 8/3/07, frettunes at frettunes.com <frettunes at frettunes.com> wrote:
> Steve Passiouras sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Hi People,
>
> I have built a small, specialist music download store:
> http://www.frettunes.com/
> I'd like to integrate it with Amarok.
>
> A little about me. I've been a Linux user/zealot since the early slackware
> days. I'm passionate about free software and community. I host a radio show
> on a community station, as a volunteer.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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