Amarok/Proposals

 

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This is a concise list of feature proposals. You can see what is being worked on. Interested in developing a killer Amarok feature, but don't know where to start? Here is the place for ideas!

To add new proposals please use the feature template and then add a link below.

Users: Please submit feature requests to http://bugs.kde.org

Amarok 3

• Proposals for Amarok 3

Amarok 2.7

• Figure out a better architecture for the (Internet) Services such as MP3 store, magnatune, last.fm, etc

Amarok 2.6

• gpodder.net internet service and podcast provider (more features)

Later releases

• Support for multiple tags

Already implemented

• gpodder.net internet service and podcast provider

Unsorted - later releases, outdated or already implemented

General features

• Bookmarking
• Cue support
• Multi-user support ideas
• Song Abstraction to handle multiple file formats - Ramblurr
• Drag & Drop album art - Allow users to drag & drop album art into the _somewhere_ (the PUD?) to set album art easily
• Playback History
• CD Burning - integrated or external (through k3b like Amarok 1.4)
• Amazon Store integration - Reverse engineer the AMZ fileformat. Have a look at pymazon
• Enhanced PlaylistBrowser: Multi Provider capable i.e., show playlists from all collections/services/mediadevices at the same time, allowing drag'n'drop between them.
• DAAP reading and sharing
• DACP support (Remote control protocol) [reference http://dacp.jsharkey.org/]
• Queue concept for The Playlist
• Playlist Generation: Could we see BPM (Beats Per Minute) added as a filter. It would make great for setting a random list at a certain tempo,

Scripts/Applets

• More Contextual Information - Aggregate more contextually relevant information from various sources
• Some ideas for the post 2.1 CV
• Applet: Album Art View - Some sort of large album art viewer applet, whether it be like CoverFlow or not. Support to toggle between now playing and now selected states
• Script: Updating IM status with current songs playing for various clients on Windows, OS X, and Linux
• Possibly scripted PodcastProvider for bashpodder.

Services (including scriptable)

• The Hype Machine scriptable service.
• Read-a-long Librivox - Show the text of the book currently playing in librivox
• Last.fm UI re-factor

Other

• Multiple Collections
• Refactor Collection