Amarok

[Olivier Churlaud]

Hi,

I'll answer below your words :)


> *Re: the "Record Stream" script not stopping "streamripper" during the 
> recording process.*
> I cannot answer about this, since I've never worked on it.. Let's wait 
> for someone who know it.
>
> I have contacted the developer of the "RecordStream" script, and filed 
> a bug report, and now I am in a "wait and see what happens" mode. You 
> seem to indicate that you are doing something on your end as well, if 
> that is so, please keep me posted. Although I am not familiar with 
> "Javascript" yet, I am trying some various code to see if I can get it 
> to stop recording an Internet stream (stop "streamripper"), and I'll 
> let you know if it works.
That was the thing to do. About what I'm currently doing: I'm 
contributing to the porting of Amarok to the KDE Framework and Plasma. 
It's a huge amount of work, but it's slowly catching up.
> *Re: Suggestions for enhancing Amarok's Playlists with "one click" 
> easier access to "saved playlists" and "tabs".
>
> 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..*
>
> This was already asked, and we all agree with you. We are currently 
> working a lot to port Amarok to the new Framework and to Qt5, but I 
> think this comes next :) (and I hope so!)
>
> I am looking forward to this as well. Should I fill out a request for 
> this in the "bugs' wish list section, or has that already been taken 
> care of as you seem to be suggesting? Myriam thought I should, but I 
> do not want to be redundant, unless it would help things along.
Go on bugs.kde.org, check amarok and see if the bug is already there. 
Also I keep this in mind, for when I'll be done with my current 
occupation on Amarok.
>
> *Re: an enhanced "Record Stream" script with multiple timer schedules 
> by date and time for various streaming stations, with the ability to 
> manage and edit those. *
>
>
> *Re: 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.*
>
> I think this will never be added... To be good in something, it's 
> better to focus in this something I think, and for us it's music... 
> Check VLC or whatever player you like.
>
> I do agree that to be really great at anything requires focusing on 
> that, but after you have completed that task, then you can add even 
> more things to be great at to your skill set, or a program's feature 
> set. It was just a thought because of music videos.
Sadly enough, the task is never achieved, and as you pointed out 
earlier, we still have a significant room for progression. And the 
design might evolve, some features introduced and so on... Who knows :)

> *Re: I hope I answered your questions. If you have some interests in 
> taking part in the development, we are also happy to welcome you :)
> Cheers and have Fun !
> *
> You did answer my questions, and again thank you!
> I will seriously think about taking part in the development process 
> for Amarok, and or Linux Mint and KDE, what would I need to do to get 
> involved, and what programming languages and scripting languages would 
> you recommend, ,in addtion to what you have already mentioned?

If you want to help, I invite you to know about C++ and Qt, because KDE 
using this a lot. You can check our projects on 
https://quickgit.kde.org/  (amarok is there), and give a hand on 
whatever project you like.  More information can be found here 
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved

About Linux Mint, I can't tell since I'm not using it :)

Cheers and have fun!
Olivier

>
> Previous email from you on 11-09-2015:
>
> Let me answer point by point.
>
>> 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.
> That is what we like to hear, and I'm happy you enjoy it .
>> 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;
>>   }
>> }
>>
> I cannot answer about this, since I've never worked on it.. Let's wait 
> for someone who know it.
>>
>> 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.
> I think you can create a script to do this. This is not in our 
> priorities for the moment, but feel free to open a ticket on our 
> bugtracker to ask for enhancement. However, if you really want it, I 
> would rather advise you to try to play around this with the scripting 
> tools provided with amarok.
>
> Here you can find some documentation about it :
> https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Script_API
>
>
>> 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.
> This was already asked, and we all agree with you. We are currently 
> working a lot to port Amarok to the new Framework and to Qt5, but I 
> think this comes next :) (and I hope so!)
>> 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.
>>
> I think this will never be added... To be good in something, it's 
> better to focus in this something I think, and for us it's music... 
> Check VLC or whatever player you like.
>
> I hope I answered your questions. If you have some interests in taking 
> part in the development, we are also happy to welcome you :)
>
> Cheers and have Fun !
>
> Phil Duffer
>
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