Automatic Lyrics Scrolling ; 2.0 Status ; DBus Interface Requests

[Emil Sedgh]

Hi 
as an AmaroK and Kirocker user, I would say that its a great piece of 
software.is it possible to include Kirocker as 'AmaroK's Kicker Applet' in 
original AmaroK release?
Many users are already asking for a Full-Screen Mode which AmaroKFS and 
Kirocker are doing atm.Kirocker is so nice.
Thanks

On Do shanbe 16 Mehr 1386 21:03:52 Sébastien Laoût wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> For Kirocker Music Display 4.0 Beta 2, I included Lyrics display.
> I tested a feature I wanted to try for a long time:
> Automatic lyrics scrolling.
> In Amarok, it often arrives that a scrollbar appears for long lyrics.
> During karaokees, or just when reading lyrics, it's (relatively) painful to
> scroll the view.
> The feature just adjust the scrollbar to where it is playing in the song
> (eg. move the scrollbar to the middle if the song is 50% elapsed).
> In arround 10% of tracks, this automatic scrolling is not really in sync
> with the music, so I fianlly came to the solution of allowing people to
> scroll manually, and the automatic-scrolling continues from that new
> position (a sort of offset set by the user).
> You can test it here:
> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kirocker+Music+Display?content=528
>69 I think this feature would be handy in Amarok 2.0.
> It truely made me rediscover my music, and enhance my speech-recognition in
> English ;-)
>
> Then, how is Amarok 2.0 by now? Is it somewhat usable? Is Amarok 2.0
> playing music now?
> After I finish Kirocker Music Display 4.0 (or after Party Lock is done), I
> may want to start porting to KDE 4.
> Is it possible now? Or in one month?
> If I start making a plasmoid, is it possible for it to show in Amarok? And
> on the desktop as well? Or should I wait for that feature to mature?
> Has then new DBus interface been started?
>
> For KDE4, I will implement iPod-6G-like menus to choose music right in full
> screen (and when screen is locked in Patry Mode). I continue to ask to NOT
> remove the query() DBus method (like mentionned in an earlier thread about
> the new DBus interface). Because I will need to do SQL queries to quickly
> get the number of albums an artist has, the number of songs are in an
> album... displayed in blue or gray like on the new iPods, to add more
> contextual information. I will also need to retreive all songs that have
> rating, to propose a smart playlist "Favorite/Rated Songs" (which I
> strongly think Amarok must provide by default), etc. You can't plan all
> those queries into a DBus interface, so please keep the query() method.
>
> And finally, will it be possible for scripts, Amarok plasmoids, or anything
> else, to display sentences like "Song i of n", like displayed on iPods, and
> other music players ("currently playing song number i in a playlist
> containing n songs)?
> It is very important in full screen display, because the playlist is not
> shown (the interface has to be kept simple), so we're lost out of context.
> But this has to be foreseen in Amarok core.
> This "position in the playlist" information should also work for random
> mode! And, in the same way, have "Next Playing" songs working in random
> mode would be very cool.
> For those two features, Amarok need to decide in advance what tracks will
> be played next, and keep an history of what has been played in the playlist
> (one boolean per item).
> Do you plan to do such thing?
>
> Best regards,
> Sébastien Laoût.
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