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Sunday, November 20. 2005

ifp - it's in! Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr at 09:16

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I would like to present the latest feature available in the development version of amaroK - iRiver ifp support in the media browser (image). Transfer your favourite tracks to your device without the hassle of finding out where they are and how to transfer them! You will need to have an ifp device in Manager mode (not UMS), and you are well on your way to rocking out on the street!

In other news, we have a revamped Tag Dialog, which shows, amongst other things - lyrics (which are editable), as well as support for external sqlite versions higher than 3.2.4.

Monday, November 14. 2005

Matisyahu concert Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 23:35

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Matisyahu concert

A few friends and I made the 1.5 hour drive down to Columbia, MO. We live in Kirksville (pop. <20000) so Columbia (pop. ~85000-100000) is quite a contrast. So we lived it up in the "big city" - did a little (unsuccessful) bicycle shopping, had lunch, saw Good Night, and Good Luck (a great movie), went to the mall (I read a manga cover-to-cover) and had some yummy sushi at Osaka before preceding to the evening concert.

I've been listening to Matisyahu for a little while now so I knew the songs and such, but I still didn't really expect the concert to be as awesome as it was. There was virtuoso guitar, drum and some great beatboxing. The only downside was how smoky it was, Kade agreed.

Obviously its really hard to get pictures in the middle of a concert, but Ben was able to get a few I was able to touch up in showfoto. Showfoto really is a gem of a KDE app (and it doesn't even have a proper webpage), it does its one thing quite well (now the blog is KDE-related

Monday, November 14. 2005

Matisyahu concert Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 23:35

Matisyahu concert

Monday, November 14. 2005

River God Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr at 11:42

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River God

Today I got my new mp3 player! It's an iRiver 799, quite an old model but exactly the one I wanted. I've been playing with it all afternoon. It's quite an impressive little thing, and it has all the things that I need, including: AA Battery - essential for travel, mp3/ogg support, fm tuner, line in recording & inbuild mic and upgradeable firmware. It is wonderful. Unfortunately the controls are a little cryptic, as there are so many functions with not many buttons. Time will teach!

Hopefully this means native ifp support in amaroK, integrated into the media browser. Martin has already done a great job of separating out the iPod code from the media browser, and libifp provides an awesome API to interface to iRiver devices. On this topic, Roland submitted a great patch to allow dynamic hiding of browsers.

For more information on what has been going on with amaroK development, check out our 1.4 RoadMap.

Also, seems like Sony has been using LAME code in it's copy protected cd's, which happens to be LGPL. So much for "protecting copyright"...

Wednesday, November 2. 2005

The State of the roK; new amaroK SVN ... Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 21:38

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The State of the roK; new amaroK SVN klik

amaroK development has been busy, like usual though perhaps more so since the start of amaroK 1.4 development.
Most of the new features and changes are really just polish on the existing feature set. I expect this will remain the case for 1.4 - we are looking forward to porting to Qt 4.0 and releasing amaroK 2.0. But that doesn't make the features going in now any less valuable:

Reduced memory usage for large playlists
amaroK now uses libgpod instead of our custom code for iPod support This should resolve a number of issues.
The statistics tool replaces the Home tab reducing the number of tabs in the context browser down to a manageable 3.
The much user-requested support for WMA and MP4/ACC tags has been added using Taglib plugins.
I've been continuing to work on usability improvements for the dynamic mode. Basically trying to make its features more obvious.
Today we got a cool patch, now the flat-mode of the collection browser uses standard column headers.

To try out the latest developments in amaroK SVN, your best option is still using a script such as Get-amarok-svn.sh, so that you have the power to configure some of those nifty features (iPod, MP4) that I listed above.

Now there is a new option to try out an amaroK from SVN with a pretty minimal sets of dependencies. I installed a Sarge chroot yesterday and have started creating amaroK 1.4-SVN Sarge Debian packages. Using these, Kurt Pfeifle was able to script around the KDE-plugins relocatable problem and create a klik.
To install with this method, simply run:

wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh

and follow the directions, if you don't have klik installed already. Then simply browser to
klik://amarok-svn-nightly:

konqueror klik://amarok-svn-nightly

You have to enter my email address ian(a)monroe.nu (replacing (a) with @) as its still a pending package.
They should be updated by about 11:00 UTC almost every day.

Wednesday, November 2. 2005

The State of the roK; new amaroK SVN ... Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 21:38

The State of the roK; new amaroK SVN klik

Reduced memory usage for large playlists
amaroK now uses libgpod instead of our custom code for iPod support This should resolve a number of issues.
The statistics tool replaces the Home tab reducing the number of tabs in the context browser down to a manageable 3.
The much user-requested support for WMA and MP4/ACC tags has been added using Taglib plugins.
I've been continuing to work on usability improvements for the dynamic mode. Basically trying to make its features more obvious.
Today we got a cool patch, now the flat-mode of the collection browser uses standard column headers.

wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh

and follow the directions, if you don't have klik installed already. Then simply browser to
klik://amarok-svn-nightly:

konqueror klik://amarok-svn-nightly

You have to enter my email address ian(a)monroe.nu (replacing (a) with @) as its still a pending package.
They should be updated by about 11:00 UTC almost every day.

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