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About a year ago we had an issue in Amarok 2 development because we wanted to be able to move portable device track access into collections (this is happening with Alejandro’s GSoC project), but we couldn’t figure out a good paradigm for accessing the various device specific functions. There were some other concerns too, about [...]
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Introducing Alejandro Wainzinger (xevix on IRC), who is going to be working on media device support in Amarok for SoC 2008: My name is Alejandro Wainzinger, and I’m going for a Computer Science B.S. at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. This summer, I’ll be bringing back media device support to Amarok for Apple [...]
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I’ve been rather silent on the topic of progress in media devices. Part of this is that much of the work has happened behind the scenes. Just yesterday I spent hours editing device definitions in libmtp and libnjb so that they’d be able to propagate the correct vendor and product info through hal, because hal’s [...]
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My blog’s been rather inactive for a while. Most of this has been because of being busy, and because of not doing hugely exciting things when I have had Amarok hacking time (mainly some bugfixes in stable branch). But now something’s come along that warrants an entry. Amarok’s device handling is pretty adequate. Granted it [...]
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Been a while since I posted, but I thought I’d give you guys a glimpse of a (very ugly) Amarok running on a Mac. I used the excellent packages from Ranger Rick to get KDE4 libs up and running (you can do it from svn but many of the tools required are most easily gotten [...]
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I’ve been knocking down my to-do list like there’s no tomorrow. I posted recently about the VFAT device rewrite; it is now complete and early testing results seem to be positive (it’s been renamed to "Generic Audio Player" by the way). In addition, ATF backend support should now be fairly complete. I’ve been debugging it [...]
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The VFAT rewrite continues apace (it may get renamed for 1.4 final). Many functions have now been implemented, and far from scaring me, I now feel quite comfortable with the code I’ve written. Just goes to show how taking a fresh perspective can really make a difference. It should be working much better than the [...]
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While updating my box at work today to kernel 2.6.16, I noticed that it now has support for Rio Karma partitions. This rocks, as the Karma is a very capable player that can play FLAC (and I think Ogg Vorbis) in addition to MP3, but previous had no Linux support. I’ll have to find a [...]
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ATF stuff has taken a backseat for a bit while I rewrite the VFAT device plugin. Originally I had ported the code over from the ifp media device plugin…the problem is that to deal with the differences between the two kinds of devices the code quickly became full of hacks. Changing one thing meant [...]
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Yesterday I commited some code to the Collection Browser that allows it to accept URLs with the audiocd:/ protocol. If your machine supports this (the audiocd:/ kioslave is probably in the kdemultimedia package), you can rip by doing the following; Open KControl. Go to Sound and Multimedia->Audio CDs. Configure your ripping preferences. Open Konqueror. [...]
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