Podcast directory service

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Saturday, February 2. 2008

Posted by Nikolaj Hald Nielsen in freespirit

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Because I was a bit bored today and really felt like doing something new, and inspired by the quite large thread on podcasts on the Amarok mailing list, I sat down and wrote a simple podcast directory service on top of the service framework.

Right now, it does not really do anything besides showing stuff, but making it subscribe to the podcasts should be relatively simple, and will tie in really well with all the cool stuff Bart is doing with regards to podcast support in the playlist browser. Also, because of the flexibility of the service framework, filtering worked right away. The service is currently hardcoded to use an OPML file from http://www.digitalpodcast.com, but the plan is to make that configurable, or even to allow several at once ( like the Ampache service ). There are currently somewhere around 15000 podcasts listed at digitalpodcast.com, so it seemed like a good place to start.

So, to keep it short and sweet, here are some screenshots of what I have got so far:

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Do you know, what would be sweet? If Amarok would be able to browse and play music videos on Youtube.com. I don't like, that I have to open Firefox, I'd be gladder if there was a possibility to use comfy Amarok to browse and play music videos on Youtube.

#1 kuba on 2008-02-02 11:23 (Reply)

Hello kuba,

you might try a video player to watch low quality youtube videos. Amarok is not a video player and will not be in the near future.

#1.1 foobar on 2008-02-02 13:49 (Reply)

This raises the question, though, of whether the collections framework could be adapted to a video player. I agree that Amarok should remain an audio player for now, but there could be great potential in using the technology for a video player as well.

I'd look into it if I 1) weren't busy with master's thesis work and 2) had better experience with video playback.

#1.1.1 Tim Bocek on 2008-02-02 18:50 (Reply)

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