Amarok - will not stop recording a stream

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Phil,

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Phil <phdsrq at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear Amarok and developers,
>
> First, I must say that I truly love the wonderful Amarok music player,
> Thank You. I have checked a lot of music players and music managers in Ms
> Windows and Linux for a long time now, and I still think Amarok is the best
> one I have found. I am currently running Linux Mint KDE 17.1 which I also
> think is absolutely superb.
>

Thanks :-)

>
> Secondly, I am having a problem when recording an Internet Streaming
> station in that it will not stop "streamripper" from recording when I click
> the stop recording button, even if I set a timer, even if I exit Amarok. I
> have to logout, or bring up "Ksysguard" to kill the process, or it will
> continue to record.
>
> I finally found the program that controls this, which I think is Java
> Script, in "/home/phil/.kde/share/apps/amarok/*main.js*". I can see the
> code block on line 139 "function recStreamStop()" which should stop
> "streamripper", which is not working on my system. But, I do not know how
> to edit the code correctly, or what to put in there to stop "streamripper",
> maybe "killall -9 streamripper", and where would I put that? If there is
> some better method, or code, to do this? Please let me know.
>
> function recStreamStop() {
>   if (recording == true) {
>     recording = false;
>     timer.stop();
>     rectimer.stop();
>     callerProc.terminate();
>     callerProc.kill();
>     removeRelay();
> *    killall -9 streamripper*
>     Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.mrecStream.enabled = true;
>     Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.recRadio.enabled = true;
>     Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.recWav.enabled = true;
>     Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.recStop.enabled = false;
>   }
> }
>
>
> Thirdly, it would be very cool, and functional, and super convenient,  to
> have the easy ability to put in multiple play and or recording start and
> stop dates and times, and or daily schedules, for individual Internet
> streaming stations, similar to "Kradio" 's Alarms, or an even better easier
> "right click" a streaming station, "add timer" method; and obviously the
> ability to manage and edit timers.
>
> The streamripper is a 3rd-party script we are not responsible for, you
should contact the author of the script directly (you can access the site
where the script is hosted via the Amarok settings -> Configure Amarok ->
Scripts -> Manage Scripts )

Fourthly, it would be really nice to have a direct "single-click"  way to
> get to the "saved Playlists", "Amarok Database", and or "Playlist files on
> disk" in an opened state (with the lists already displayed), on the
> toolbar, or even a keyboard shortcut, and or maybe one or two icons
> (launchers), at the top or bottom of the "current playlist"; and having
> multiple playlist tabs and tab options in the currently playing playlist
> would sure be great too.
>

Please file a wish for this on bugs.kde.org, so we can keep track of the
wishlist.

>
> Lastly, it would be also be nice, although not essential, to have Amarok,
> be able to open and play videos (ex: music videos), even if it spawns an
> external media (video) player which would require a configuration setting
> somewhere, maybe a plug-in, or script.
>

That is really out of our scope, Amarok is an audio player only, and it
would add quite some code we would have to maintain as well. With a
codebase of over 200k lines this would really start to get totally
overblown, I hope you understand.

Thank you for using Amarok!

Regards, Myriam
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