Amarok article

[Craig Ross]

The bg thing for me is MYSQL support both for speed and so i can share my db
to my other machines around the house

thanks for a great app guys


On 11/2/07, Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Greg!
>
> CC'd to you personally also, cause its an older thread.
>
> I just have a few more questions ;-).
>
> Am Donnerstag 13 September 2007 schrieb Greg Meyer:
> > On Thursday 13 September 2007, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > 1) When writing about current state of affairs (i.e. Amarok 1.4.7),
> > > is there anything that you think I should include in any case?
> > > Anything that might be easily overlooked? I think I have quite a good
> > > grasp on the key features, but if you have some additional input for
> > > me, go ahead...
> >
> > Dynamic playlists are important.
> >
> > Scoring is often misunderstood, because people try to think of it in
> > terms of a rating, but that is different.  Scoring is designed to tell
> > you what music you prefer by reporting what you actually listen to.  I
> > know it changed the way I purchase music because it is focused on the
> > the music I actually like instead of the music I thought I liked.  Much
> > of the criticism was centered around the scoring algorithm, but this
> > can be controlled by the user since scoring is done via script and the
> > user can create their own custom scoring script.
>
> Whats the criticism here?
>
> > > 2) If I provide a tips and tricks section in my article, what
> > > tips&tricks should be in there IMHO? Anything else than
> > > http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks?
> >
> > A big one for me is feeding a dynamic playlist with a smart playlist
> > rather something static or user created.  I created a smart playlist
> > that selects songs with a score btween 80 and 95, with more than 8
> > plays, and hasn't been heard in 3 weeks.
>
> Why did you use a upper limit for the score (95)?
>
> [...]
> > Another huge item for more technical users is the ability to retrieve
> > information and control amarok through the KDE DCOP interface.  This
> > will be replaced in 2.0 with DBUS.  Just type "dcop amarok" to see all
> > the various dcop targets.  Then try dcop amarok player nowPlaying:
> >
> >      user at localhost $ dcop amarok player nowPlaying
> >      The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
> >
> > "dcop amarok player showOSD" displays the OSD, etc.  You can use the
> > KDE DCOP browser to see everything available.
>
> Yes. Thats cute. I usually SSH into my Amarok machine - an used ThinkPad
> T23 - and just use amarok -f when it plays a song, I do not like.
>
> It will be a challenge to fit all the good stuff into one article. I have
> installation, MP3 support, the context browser + all of the stuff it
> provides and intelligent as well as dynamic playlists covered - but so
> much is still missing.
>
> Ciao,
> --
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