podcasts in Amarok 2.0 ?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Jan 29, 2008 1:43 PM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> here is the screenshot:
> http://users.telenet.be/shanachie/images/amarok2_podcast_category.png
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2008 1:37 PM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Jan 29, 2008 11:43 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Jan 29, 2008 11:36 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I know that amarok 2.0 is still heavy in development, but can somebody
> > > > explain how podcasts handling is expected to work when Amarok 2.0 is
> > > > finished.
> > > >
> > > > I have few suggestions on the topic of podcasts:
> > > > 1. have ability to export and import opml podcast xml files
> > That is planned, in fact, I'm pondering to save the subscriptions in
> > an OPML by default.
> >
> > > > 2. ability to browse podcast directories from within amarok and
> > > > subscribe to podcasts directly
> > There was a user in #amarok who was interesting in creating a service
> > for browsing and searching the digitalpodcast.com directory. They
> > offer a REST interface (basic HTML get/post). That would be very easy
> > to do using nhnfreespirit's Service Framework. perhaps that brave soul
> > will soon send a patch to the amarok mailing list.
> >
> > > > 3. have few linux podcasts subscribed by default (LugRadio, Linux
> > > > Action Show, Linux Link Tech Show, Linux Outlaws...) of course ogg rss
> > > > feeds
> > Similar to the Cool Streams category in 1.4 we could do that.
> >
> > >
> > > I forgot the most important one :)
> > >
> > > 4. Podcast should have it's tab and not be in sub option in playlists IMHO.
> > It does in the current development branch. I'm using a QToolBox.
> > Here's a screenshot:

My idea was as a tab in the left "browsers" tabs.
Here is the screenshot:
http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/amarok2_podcast_category.png

but this is also a step in right direction.

Love the new look for Amarok 2.0 and podcast features! This is going to rock!


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