Amarok article

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

I guess I would be the one to talk to about the integration of
services, Magnatune, Jamendo and that stuff! :-)

- Nikolaj

On 8/30/07, Leo Franchi <Leonardo.Franchi at tufts.edu> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Follow-up to poster, as I think it makes sense.
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I plan to write an article about Amarok, alternative music shops such like
> > Magnatune.com and the social music revolution for the german Linux print
> > magazine Linux User[1].
> >
> > I plan to have three parts in the article:
> >
> > 1) Current state of affairs: Amarok 1.4.7
> >
> > 2) Alternative music shops and the social music revolution:
> > - Magnatune.com and possibly others
> > - last.fm, Jamendo, possibly others
> >
> > 3) News from Amarok 2
> >
> > Its important to me to grasp concepts and ideas behind all of this as good
> > as possible. Especially behind the changes in Amarok 2 and what it is all
> > about that social music revolution - I am still quite new to it, I bought
> > an album from magnatune.com, but I did not yet use last.fm for anything
> > else than my dynamic playlists. I usually like to work a with the people
> > behind a software, especially when there are questions, so that my
> > articles provide more than a feature summary ;-).
> >
> > Thus I would like to have a contact or two to ask questions specifically
> > about part two and three. Would there someone be willing to answer some
> > questions as they pop up when I gather information about those two parts
> > and possibly also part one? If so, please contact me.
>
> Due to the way development has been progressing in Amarok  2, the codebase is
> very modular and developers have generally been working on separate parts of
> the code (with exceptions). For that reason, I suggest that instead of asking
> for one or two developers to interview, you provide your questions and the
> most qualified developer in that area can answer it.
>
> For example, if you have questions about the ContextView, I can answer them
> fully, but I would not know how to talk exhaustively about the new Service
> system or the new Playlist.
>
> Leo
>
>
>
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