GSoC project proposal: Audio CD support for Amarok

[Jeff Mitchell]

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
>>> Basically I just want to put a CD in the box,
>>> tell Amarok to rip it,
>>> wait 5 minutes or so (ideally non-blocking), and then have it nicely
>>> added to my collection.
> 
> The "copy to Collection" system is already non blocking, giving nice
> feedback in the statusbar and generally ready to use for this purpose.
> It also has the added benefit of allowing you to rip, not only to your
> local collection, but directly to any writable collection, such as a
> portable media player, an mp3tunes account or whatever we decide to
> add in the future.
> 
> So really, we will never even use the term "ripping" ( at least not
> user visible ). What the user is doing is simply copying data from one
> collection to another. The technical details of what goes on
> underneath the hood really should be none of the users concern ( with
> the slight exception that the source config dialog requested by the
> LocationCollection framework will of course include a question about
> encoding format )

Yes -- one way to handle this could be to create a new top-level
collection containing the CD's tracks (with info filled out by freedb).
 The user can select specific tracks (or the entire collection), and
either drag to the PUD or right-click and select Copy to Local Collection.

--Jeff

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