Amarok Blog

Today we had a meeting at aKademy about what Amarok related work we wanted to do / get started on while here.
This resulted in the following quite ambitious plan:

Ian

- Continue work on the playlist.
- I'm using QGraphicsScene to paint the delegates for the playlist (eg the playlist items). Its pretty easy to use.
- Also there's a few problems with drag and drop currently that don't make sense but....
- there's a Model/View tutorial tomorrow! We hypothesized hijacking it into a "fix Amarok" live session.

Nikolaj

- (Re)introduction of the scriptable service (was never more than a prototpye)
- Demo scripts for the above (reuse the ones from old implementation)
- Reuse code from above to add simple mp3tunes oboe locker service
- General Service framework API stabilization work.
- We had a digression talking about using KListView in the PlaylistBrowser

Bart

- Podcast support based on QXmlStreamReader
- PlaylistBrowser redesign
- using podcasts with smart playlists. a special kind of smart playlist? Not quite sure yet...
- testing out Amarok in pubs, getting laymen responses
- define the target user

Leinir

- Plans to replace the now discarded player window with a plasmoid.

Max K

- Replace collection scanner with scanner interface for Strigi and other Free Desktop projects using XESAM
- fixing the many //TODO's in code

Martin

- Work on OS X - playing music would be a nice feature (phonon engine, perhaps a phonon engine plugin, ...).
- better KIO intergration
- port metadata backend to Strigi
- minimize power consumption on laptops
- fewer crashes

After a few days without proper internet access, its finally time for some serious blogging!

The Amarok development team has showed up in force at this years aKademy in Glasgow. There are 6 of us here, and we plan to spend the next 5 days pushing Amarok 2.0 forwards as much as possible. I have high hopes that we will get a lot done in this next 5 days. The talks Saturday and Sunday has also given us a lot of new input about the exiting technologies that are coming up in KDE 4 and how they might be applied to Amarok.


but, without further ado, let me introduce the Amarok team at aKademy in all its nerdy glory:




From the left we have: Dan ( leinir ), Bart ( stecchino ), Maximilian ( maxx_k ), Ian ( eean ), yours truly ( nhnFreespirit ) and finally Martin ( aumuell ).


Now that we actually have stable internet access, I suspect you will hear much more from us over the next few days. Keep watching this space!