Tunenami & Amarok

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Hi!

I'll try to answer your mail. My answers are my own however and I
cannot speak for the rest of the developers.

I wrote the integrated Magnatune music store that was included with
the two latest releases (1.4.4 and 1.4.5) of Amarok and have since
been looking into ways of building a framework for adding more online
services / stores. I have just recently added the first prototype of
this framework to Amarok's SVN trunk, so it is in no way feature
complete or stable yet though.I  feel that if you are interested in
integrating your service into Amarok, this would be the way to go.

You should also know that 1.4.5 was the last Amarok release of the 1.4
branch and that the next release will be Amarok 2.0. We are currently
rewriting everything to work with Qt4 and KDE4. This means, that once
complete, a native Mac OS and Windows client should be fairly simple
to do. (One of the devs has already had it (sort of) running on a
Mac).
This also means, however, that the next stable Amarok release will not
be for quite a while yet.

I would encourage you to take a look at the Magnatune store in Amarok
1.4.5 since this is what I am primarily modeling the online services
framework on. This should give you an idea about how a service can be
integrated into Amarok.

If you have any more questions or comments, feel free to post them
here. You are also welcome to drop by irc channel #amarok at
irc.freenode.net and try to catch me (or one of the other devs) there.

  - Nikolaj



On 2/24/07, William Shostak <uili at tunenami.com> wrote:
> Amarok Development Squad,
>
> We own an up and coming music portal, yes another one. The real
> difference between ours and others is; all music is released thru
> Creative Commons so the music can be downloaded and shared freely;
> ability to find music you like easier (all the features are not up
> yet but will be over the next couple months); and most importantly
> many methods for artist to make money with out selling music to
> listeners. There are a couple other sites with all these features but
> we think our methods and our team is unique that if artist use our
> site along with the others the have a better chance of making a
> living making music. This is just so you know a little about us we
> can of course embellish more, but that is not the point at the moment.
>
> We where just considering developing a music player and while doing
> research to structure the architecture we ran into Amarok.
>
> You guys have a wonderful thing going on here and we though why make
> another but see how we can develop the features we need in Amarok to
> coincide with your own development. This way we can help each other
> while helping ourselves, and increase the rate of development for
> Amarok.
>
> We have a bunch of features in mind but they can all be dealt with
> over time, I mean what you have now is incredible - by far the most
> impressive music player out their. Our biggest concern is binaries
> for OSX and Windows, and a personal feature is to allow Amarok users
> access to our library to down load the music from our site right thru
> Amarok (currently 1500 songs and growing).
>
> This letter is to open dialog to make sure your are ok with our
> development on your platform and to make sure our development and
> yours does not overlap and our development can be helpful to Amarok.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> William Shostak
>
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