GSoC project proposal: Audio CD support for Amarok

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Saturday 28 March 2009 10:30:06 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> 2009/3/28 Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org>:
> > By the way, I'd change the title of the proposal.  Audio CD support
> > sounds like playback support, which probably isn't hard enough to
> > warrant a SoC slot -- but playback *and* ripping support I think is
> > (although it may be relatively easy, depending on the status of the
> > audiocd:// slave, in which case I hope you'd use extra time
> > productively).  So my suggestion would be to make sure when you submit
> > your proposal in Melange to have the subject line convey that your
> > proposal with do both, because it will prevent people from dismissing it
> > outright when they are going through and scoring applications.
>
> I agree with this. Just playback would be far too small in scope (and
> frankly: rather boring too).
>
> What I would expect from this project is a complete solution for
> playback _and_ ripping. The ripping is the important part here.
>
> Ideally it would be easy to use (good usability is a requirement
> here),

  Which, of course, is where i and the rest of the usability peoples come in 
;)

> fully automatic, and even do the tagging automatically.
> Basically I just want to put a CD in the box,

> tell Amarok to rip it,

  By definition, that makes it not fully automatic ;)

> wait 5 minutes or so (ideally non-blocking), and then have it nicely
> added to my collection.

  Other than that, yes, that's really what we need it to do.

> If you think you can do that, Andreas, you will get my support.

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