Wannabe

[Patrick C]

Thanks for telling me about Rokymotion, as I've never heard of it! Maybe we
need a Rokymotion-motion team. ;-)

As for Rhapsody support, there are a couple of points I have:

1.) Rhapsody's Firefox plugin just sucks.
2.) The main reason I enjoy Rhapsody isn't for downloads (I never download
or purchase DRM content anywhere), but for its on-demand capability. It's
just fun for putting together party playlists or listening to that song you
heard on the radio (or Last.fm ;-) ) again.

Apparently a project called "Mugshot" has Rhapsody support as well as a
Linux client. I don't know about the details, but I could check it out.
Also, Rhapsody is all web-based. The Windows client basically uses embedded
IE and their own interface to play some form of authenticated RealPlayer
streams. I also know that the Helix engine itself is available for Linux as
well as for Amarok, and so while it probably won't be easy to implement, it
also seems feasible (to my naive mind).

So while I agree with you on the political points, part of me is just
screaming "Rhapsody for Linux sucks, make it better!"

I'm sure there will be other ways I could contribute to the project, so I'll
definitely check those out, too. Thanks for the informative (and prompt)
response.

Also... I don't know how hard it is to do a SVN checkout, but I don't think
it can be that tough (I bet the harder part is getting the beast to compile,
heh). If worst comes to worse, I can just check the Sabayon overlay on my
Gentoo machine, as I'm sure they'll have an SVN KDE4 set of ebuilds soon.

On 8/3/07, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, all. I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list or if these
> kinds of
> > requests should go on the main one, but here goes:
>
> I think it is the right one! :-)
>
> > I'm a high school student with minimal programming experience (I took a
> > couple of Java classes, and my final projects are a report and Tetris
> > clone), but (I think) a good understanding of the basics and a love for
> > FOSS, Linux, KDE, and most specifically Amarok. I'd love to become an
> Amarok
> > developer (or otherwise involved in the project), maybe through Google's
> > summer of code in a few years, but I don't know where to start. I've
> found
> > that usually the easiest way for me to learn syntax or an algorithm is
> to
> > practice it, and I was wondering if there's any small part of Amarok I
> could
> > take a look at and start rewriting (just for practice), or if there's
> any
> > watered-down source/API overview I could look at to start getting an
> idea of
> > how the pieces of Amarok work together.
>
> How to get involved is always a tricky question, as it the best way
> almost always differs from person to person. I would recommend that
> you join us on irc channel #amarok on irc.freenode.net.
>
> Also, we are currently working on the next major version of Amarok,
> namely version 2.0., and setting up a development environment for this
> can be quite tricky as it requires that most of KDE4 be built from the
> subversion trunk.
>
> Another alternative for getting involved could be to check out
> Rokymotion, the Amarok promotion team, at
> http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/Promotion or #rokymotion on
> irc.freenode.net
>
> > My other question:
> > At the moment, the idea I'd like to see implemented in Amarok (hopefully
> by
> > me!) is Rhapsody support. I don't know if it's in the works or not, but
> I
> > assume not as I haven't seen anything on the developer blogs or main
> website
> > about it. The main issue, I believe, is that it's proprietary, and
> non-free,
> > and also that the last thing Amarok wants (or needs) is to become a DRM
> (or
> > otherwise) music store. So my question is: would this be allowable as a
> part
> > of Amarok, and would it be possible to make it a separate package (like
> the
> > various Amarok engines are in Debian-based and RPM-based distributions)?
>
> Rhapsody support might be tricky. First of all they use DRM which we
> have absolutely no technical way of supporting. Secondly, I dot think
> it would fit well with the Philosophy of Amarok, or free software in
> general to be supporting services that restrict their users with DRM (
> This is just my personal view )
>
> There are many other services that we would like to support however,
> and work is happening on making integrating these easier in the
> future.
>
> Hope to hear from you! :-)
>
> - Nikolaj
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