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by Max on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @13:16

Great software, I love Amarok.

Could you guys include a way that Amarok calls up a KDE video player, Codeine/Kaffeine/whatever so I can play my music videos from within Amarok. (or at least click on them within Amarok?

Also I second that, it would be great if there were some sort of Wizard, or tutorial mode, that shows off all the features of Amarok in an easy to learn fashion for novices.
(including: playlists, importing cover art, advanced features, how to edit mp3's, how to get Ipods to work with it, etc..)

Also could you do some sort of plasmoid that would show what song is currently playing with some simple information that shows as a widget on KDE 4.x? I'd like to see what's playing without having to call up the whole program from being minimized.

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Re: Great software
by Ian Monroe on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @14:43

In Amarok 1.4, for podcasts you can right click on them and play them with an external app (eg a movies player). For Amarok 2.0 we'll likely integrate a simple video player.

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Re: Great software
by Bert on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @16:09

Yeah, I miss the ability to play music videos with Amarok as well. I have several hundreds of clips, but not really a good player to play them all and have some queue management as well. So that option would be good (I already took a sneak peak into Amarok 2 code myself to see if I could shift in some code of my own to accomplish this on a dirty-hack manner).

Anyway: great work, keep it up! And I definitely own you guys some beers might I ever run into you!

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Re: Great software
by anonymous coward on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @16:18

I *love* amarok. I spend about 8 hours a day on the computer and I know amarok better than my girlfriend ;) THANK YOU for this great piece of software!

You obviously are free to integrate whatever you desire, I just want to express my dearest hopes it'll stay a great music player that doesn't get too much into the users face.

I think one should be careful about implementing wishes from minorities (of users). One day, amarok might be able to read my mail, but I'll be probably be using something else by then. I cannot imagine that a significant amount of amarok users want to watch videos in playlists. I might be wrong, though.

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Re: Great software
by Ian Monroe on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @19:05

Well with something like playing videos, its pretty easy to keep it out of the way for users who don't want the feature. I mean if there's no video in the playing track, you don't show a video. And we won't bend our user interface around to make it about playing videos, like (at least old versions of) WMP does, if that's what you were worried about. It will be just simple video playing support, showing up in the context view.

I read the first sentence of your post to my girlfriend, she feels your girlfriends pain. ;) Thanks for your support.

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Re: Great software
by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @23:17

i thought the idea still was to put the video stream in place of the analyse? (as in, when there's audio visualisation included, replace out generated one with the included...) ;)

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Along with a video player
by NuclearPeon on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @12:45

Along with integrating the simple video player, could you also make it so visualizations could be played on said video player?

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Re: Great software
by richlv on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @01:29

"Also I second that, it would be great if there were some sort of Wizard, or tutorial mode, that shows off all the features of Amarok in an easy to learn fashion for novices."

i suppose it makes most sense to use documentation for this. compiling walkthroughs in wiki probably is the most sensible thing, at least for noe :)

"Also could you do some sort of plasmoid that would show what song is currently playing with some simple information that shows as a widget on KDE 4.x?"

given the plasma-centric everything, it is possible that plasmoids from amarok could be placed anywhere.

there's also kirocker - now, if only somebody picked it up and ported to plasma... :)

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