Shoutcast.com Internet Radio Stations removed from latest Amarok release & Info from Shoutcast

[Leo Franchi]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:46 AM, S G <sxg9.9999 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To whom it may concern,
> So it is somewhat disingenuous for Amarok to state this position of "legal
> reasons" for not including the SC feature in the latest release. I tried to
> find out more about this on IRC #amarok but it seems no one there is
> interested in including SC in future releases. As a matter of fact, <marky>
> suggested to one user they write a script to get the listings, similar to
> the post by Mamarok. Huh?? Why doesn't Amarok do it once and make it
> available again to its many users who find this feature useful and
> convenient? There seem to be more reasons than are being divulged by Amarok
> for it not to be included. This is too bad because there are other options
> that continue to include SC listings such as Exaile, VLC, Tunapie, to which
> I for one have turned. I think Amarok has underestimated the user base on
> this one.
>
> I really liked the feature, found it very useful, and I believe that other
> users did too.  I would like to request that it be included in future
> releases, please.
>

Thanks for the clarification of the license. I for one was not aware that we
were misinterpreting their legal terms. I don't see any reason for not
re-adding the shoutcast browser service.

leo


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