A Quickie: Amarok, Last.fm, CampKDE

January 14th, 2009 | Published in Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Things have been busy around here! First, there was the end-of-semester rush that occurs right before exams, then there was exams themselves. After the 3-day cross country drive home, I’ve spent the last couple weeks playing Settlers of Cataan with old friends, and hitting the ski slopes a couple times a week.

In between all that I haven’t had much time for development. Actually, I told a small lie. I’ve been pretty busy with a secret project ™, but I can’t post anything about that until the 19th.

Amarok wise, things are looking up. I’ve started to completely refactor the last.fm service in Amarok 2. Expect a more explanatory post (plus screenshots!) soon.

Finally, Camp KDE is a few short days away. During the conference Leo Franchi and I plan to knock out some huge improvmeents to Amarok 2′s Context View.

Gah, Gah, Go, that’s all folks!

Im Going to Camp KDE!

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Theirry

Hi,
Another missing last.fm feature would be the love/ban function of local files. As far as I know, Songbird is the only client that supports this besides the official last.fm client.

best,
thierry
Casey

Amarok 2 already supports this feature. The buttons are in the last.fm service browser. However, I plan to add the love/ban actions to the main toolbar and context menu for all types of tracks.
Ian Monroe

Hooray, Settlers of Catan. :)
bdam

Great you're talking about last.fm, just have a problem I cannot solve myself.

I'd love to see a feature in amarok that adds the most popular songs of a clicked artist to the amarok-playlist based on last.fm top lists.

Sometimes friends ask me to play some known songs of a given artist. Then I have to first find this artist in last.fm and add the songs to amarok manually.

Is there a way to do this automatically in amarok?

Binary Elysium