Amarok Blog

Yesterday I had a few hours on my own, and since I had nothing better planned, I decided to actually implement one of the things that I have been meaning to do for a long time. Originally, I had planned to somehow use libktorrent to handle downloading of albums from Jamendo ( Which are only available using bittorrent or edonkey ), but since I have not yet found a way to do this, I decided to go the simple route for now and just launch the defualt app for handling torrents.

The result is, that it is now possible to select download from within the Jamendo service, and the torrent file will be downloaded and launched in your favorite bittorrent client. Not quite as smooth as the Mangtune downloading, but it works! For now, it is hardcoded to always select the ogg torrent, but I will add an option to select either mp3 or ogg.

And of course "pictures or it did not happen"



This week I will be working on the Magnatune.com site. We are currently working hard to roll out some exiting new features, that will also make a great impact on the Magntune service in Amarok. But more on that when it is ready!