Category: Amarok

Amarok 2.0 released!

We are happy to finally get our baby out of the door. Read the release announcement here: http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.0, check abby’s screenshot tour and help us spread the word on digg, Twitter, your blog and wherever else you hang around 🙂   This is just the beginning of a long journey. Join us on our way and party with us!

Amarok 2.0

LibriVox – take 2

Some time ago I wrote about the LibriVox script in Amarok. It has been ported now and works like a charm.
For those who don’t know how the script came to be: Hanno Svoboda reported a bug on bugs.kde.org saying that he would like to have LibriVox integrated in Amarok. We asked if there is a nice API we can use and Hanno got in touch with the LibriVox developers to find out. After some emails and chats everything we needed was provided and Nikolaj sat down to code the script for the service in a very short time and it is now one of our nicest scripted services. All of this was just a matter of a few days and getting the right people to work together.
Hanno has been so kind to do a short video. Please enjoy and thanks to Hanno for the video and for bringing this wonderful service to our attention in the first place.

LibriVox

This should show you two things:
1) Is is really easy to integrate a service into Amarok 2.
2) If you have great ideas and help us realize them amazing things can happen.

SeeqPod and LibriVox


Be seeing you, originally uploaded by Olivander.

Amarok 2 has two scripted services that are really cool. For one SeeqPod, that lets you search for any kind of music on the web and listen to it in Amarok. And the other one is LibriVox, that integrates the LibriVox service. LibriVox offers free audiobooks of public domain books. Both services are great and definitely deserve to be in Amarok 2.0.

The problem is that they were written a few weeks ago in Ruby. Now they need to be ported to QtScript as that is the only scripting language we allow for internal scripts to reduce the headache of script dependencies especially keeping the Windows and Mac releases in mind.

Among all the stuff that needs to be done before the release of Amarok 2.0 those two scripts were kinda forgotten until now and really need some love. If you want to help us get those two scripts back please let me know. Free cookies and hugs included 😉

FrOSCon!

If you want to meet some KDE folks, want to see KDE 4.1 in action or if you have questions about KDE FrOSCon in St. Augustin is the place to be this weekend.

Come and say hello at the KDE/Amarok booth and in our dev-room.
We have interesting talks for everyone in our dev room:

Saturday:
11:15 KDE Edu (Frederik Gladhorn)
16:30 KDE Community – How to get involved (Alexandra Leisse and Lydia Pintscher)

Sunday:
11:15 Amarok 2 (Sven Krohlas and Lydia Pintscher)
15:15 Kubuntu – A KDE desktop (Marcus Czeslinski)
16:30 KDE Grill – Ask questions about KDE you always wanted us to answer (KDE dream team ;-))

And on Saturday 15:15 Sebastian Kügler will talk about KDE 4.1 in his talk “Don’t look back” in the main track.
Hope to see you there.

Oh btw: Last year’s social event = best social event of 2007. Let’s see if they can beat Akademy this year 😉