Well, I am totally blown away by the fact that we have had 9,118 downloads of
amaroK Live from all sources, ftp, http and bittorrent. This is far more than i was expecting, and it is very exciting.
So, with the first one being so successful, planning must begin on how to top it for the 1.3 release of amaroK. Several ideas have been discussed with regard to acquiring music to include, and I have settled on approaching
Magnatune first about sponsoring it by providing 16 tracks that we would have permission to distribute. I have sent them a letter and we await their response.
Other ideas included putting out a general call for music, kind of like how the last icon was developed, or doing a friends and family edition, where musicians that the amaroK devs know would get featured. Ultimately, I think doing a joint promotion with another group that would have an interest in success is the way to go.
As far as features go, I'd love to hear all your ideas, either in the amaroK Live forum, here in the comments, posted to the amaroK-devel mailing list or brought up in #amarok on freenode.
