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We told you it was coming. Sure, that was a while back, so you probably thought we forgot about it. Or maybe you thought we were simply playing politics, tossing empty promises to our users. Well…you were wrong. It may be a bit later than planned — we wanted to have it in time for [...]
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A heads-up on something new in Amarok SVN (and coming in 2.2 for those of you not living on the bleeding edge): We’ve had various bug reports over the years relating to character sets and collation, causing issues with matching searches for music or mis-sorted items. Well, hopefully no longer. When you update to 2.2 [...]
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I’ve blogged about Amarok File Tracking before and there’s a lot of information about it on the wiki. For those that haven’t heard about the goodness of embedded file tracking, check out those links. There are a couple pieces of good news, and one piece of bad news. The good news: in current SVN (and [...]
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A long time ago I promised to post an update when I got incremental batch scanning working. Well, as it turns out, that happened a long time ago too, but I never got around to writing the Wiki page for it. I’ve corrected that flaw. Anyone interested in scanning their collection locally instead of across [...]
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A long-requested feature has been a way to decouple Amarok’s collection scanning from its GUI. There are various use-cases for this. For one, it can actually help us with debugging, by allowing us to control the inputs into the scan parser. For another, many people have all of their music stored on a single machine, [...]
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Poisonous people. They exist everywhere, sucking the light and good out of things and repurposing them for all sorts of nasty activities. Like the rest of KDE, and the rest of the software world (both free and non-free) in general, the Amarok team has taken its fair share of abuse over the years. Normally I [...]
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There has been a lot of chatter lately regarding Amarok’s switch to MySQL as its only SQL backend. A decent amount is FUD — either by people simply pushing back against change, or by people that simply don’t understand the decision. Some of it (particularly Adriaan’s blog post) has been insightful and interesting, but miss [...]
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I don’t blog often, but when I do it tends to be meaty. I won’t disappoint. I’ll be covering Amarok, Amarok history, and a possible future part of kdelibs. "We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Better than before. Better, stronger, faster." A little-known feature in Amarok 1, starting at about 1.4.3, was what [...]
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(I’m proxy-posting this for my SoC student, who already posted it on the Amarok blog, so that it gets wider distribution on Planet KDE. Apologies to anyone seeing this twice.) So iPod support should be pretty well set by this next weekend, and the next thing on my list is support for MTP devices. So, [...]
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First off — the PUD now lives in the KDE Subversion repository! It’s at svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/libs/popupdropper — it builds with CMake and acts as a standalone library. Included in there is a testapp that you can build with qmake that I use for my testing and that you can use to check it out, which I [...]
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