A suggestion for enhancement

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

> Hi foks,
> I was wondering if Amarok would provide, as part of the installation, a
> database of online radio stations streams, along with some
> classification as to content, bitrate, stereo/mono, and language..etc.
> Also, it would be great to provide a search engine for artist and album
> title search of the list of each radio station selected.

Amarok has for a long time included a list of a few "Cool Streams"
that we, the developers had chosen among our favorites. However, doing
an extensive list with stations form many countries and in many
languages, and ensuring the quality and accuracy of this list is
something we do not have th resources to do. The good news is that
with Amarok 2 which will be released in a few weeks, we really do not
have to.

With the new scriptable service interface, it is really easy for 3rd
parties to provide custom lists of stations based on language, region
or topic, an even though AMarok 2 is not even officially out yet, many
people have already done so. Check out
http://kde-apps.org/?xcontentmode=57 to see the radio stations
services that are already available. All of these can be browsed,
downloaded and installed from within Amarok 2 with a single click.

- Nikolaj