There is a BBC in my Amarok

Ok, I admit it, my blogging recently has been a little, hmmm, erratic? Ok, so maybe non existent is closer to the truth.

The thing is that I mostly blog about cool new stuff in Amarok, and since we have been in release mode for a while, not that many really col new features has been added. Now, I am not saying this is a bad thing, as we really needed to start focusing on getting Amarok 2 ready for release, but it does make me a much less active blogger.

So, what is someone like me, who has an urger do do something new and exiting every once in a while, todo? Well, yesterday the answer was served on a silver platter when I discovered this.

Looking at that, my first thought was "Hey, that is very cool", my second thought was "Damn, they have something that Amarok 2 does not", soon followed by "No way!"

My personal pet feature in Amarok 2 is the service framework. But there is a certain part of it that has really been growing on my, namely the qtscript interface that allows you relatively easy add a new service using small qt script. Lydia blogged about the Librivox service a little while back, which was built as a scripted service. So, a few hours after finding the BBC feed that lists the freely available content I had this up and running:



This script is now available from kde-apps.org or it can be automatically installed from within Amarok 2 by using the "Get More Scripts" button int the script manager.

I think stuff like this really nicely shows off the power of these scripted services. Just recently, Sven Krohlas, a long time rokymoter and Amarok contributor released his Free Music Charts service, and I already know of a few other cool scripted services that are under development. If this keeps up, Amarok 2 will have quite a nice selection of scripted services when it launches, and hopefully this will inspire other people with cool ideas to implement even more.