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By: Amarok Blog

Amarok Blog — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:00:56 +0000

A Cool little hack! ( Free, public domain, audio books in Amarok 2 )…

A little while back, Amarok’s very own Lydia Pintscher, aka. Nightrose, blogged about a session on free culture at FOSSCamp. Among the comments to that blog entry was a suggestion to integrate free , public domain audio books from Librivox.org into Am…

By: victor diaz

victor diaz — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:20:28 +0000

Good afternoon, received a warm greeting from Caracas, Venezuela, the thought of SimÃ³n BolÃvar, they are dedicated to you …:

“Raising the monument devoted to our reconciliation, to the truce and the right of common men. Well deserved this monument be carved on a massive diamond and enamel hyacinth and rubies, but built in our hearts ..”
SimÃ³n BolÃvar to the world

By: Nikolaj Hald Nielsen

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:30:07 +0000

@Hanno. Oh… that does look interesting. Now if I could only get them the expose a nice API, it would be a prime candidate for a service!

By: malte

malte — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:47:12 +0000

and yet another one: archive.org has a lot of public domain and other nice free movies and i guess audiothings.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:10:10 +0000

@Hanno Great idea! I will make sure we look into that. Thank you.

By: hanno

hanno — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:04:03 +0000

I might have another idea: audio books for amarok. Librivox (http://librivox.org/) is a portal for free (libre) audio books. I am sure there are others out there.
Keep up the good work

By: Nikolaj Hald Nielsen

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:21:26 +0000

Good stuff!

I am glad that this idea is starting to gain traction as I think the two movements has a lot to learn from each other and gain by cooperating. And both Free Software and Free Culture are really part of the same larger goal of having a free society.

I am looking forwards to seeing what will come of this.