GSoC project proposal: Audio CD support for Amarok

[Mark Kretschmann]

2009/3/28 Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org>:
> Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
>> I think this could make for a really cool project.
>>
>> One thing to look into and include in the proposal is using KDE's
>> audiocd KIO slave to do the encoding, as that actually supports on the
>> fly encoding of tracks from a cd into one of several formats.
>>
>> To try this, in a KDE session, put a cd into your drive and type
>> "audiocd://" in either dolphin or konqueror. That will give you a
>> virtual view of the cd. The files in the different directories
>> actually do not exists, but the ogg, flac and so on files are created
>> on the fly as you try to copy them somewhere else.
>
> This, by the way, is entirely possible, because I added support for
> Amarok to import music exactly this way in 1.4.  I'm not sure if the
> audiocd:// slave works in KDE 4 though; so if not, that might be a way
> to start.

Good news: It works pretty well :)

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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