I’m working on the transocder, learning C++ as I go and trying to make thing as easy as possible. Right now it looks like the entire thing has to be in C++. Fact is I’m thinking that instead of making this specific to Amarok to encode this as something that could be placed in any program. Thing is I’m wondering how much reinventing the wheel I’ll end up doing. I dislike the idea of reinventing the wheel.
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Was discussing QTScript calls planned for and already in Amarok 2 in the freenode channel tonight. Seems a good portion of the functionality I’d need for my media device script would need to be added into Amarok as it stands. Which means I’m back to C++ for the entire process, and to build what needs to be included into Amarok 2. Little bit more work than I was thinking when I first thought to try this.
I took a look at an example script for Amarok 2 which pulled lyrics for songs. This I then used in order to write a small script in order to search YouTube for related videos. I’m not sure exactly what it would do, but this is more for my edification then any real work.
Right now I am working on learning QT script so I can build an Amarok 2 script for transcoding media for media devices. This includes music, videos, and uploading pictures. Which means I will need to figure out how to get access to lame, mencoder, and other things for meta data.
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With the newer updates to KDE and Amarok the dev teams have set the entire thing up to make some things easier. Plasma scripts and apps are developed in any scripting language one can ask for. You can even write your apps in C++ and make due rather well. I’m trying to decide if I want to try to learn C++ and go from there. I’m not entirely certain.
One thing I want is a script in Amarok that would transcode and prep videos for transfer to iPod and other media devices. However I’m still trying to get my mind around it all. Little help would be nice.
The biggest issue I see is the fact that it’s all javascript. I’m not certain how easy Java script is supposed to be as I’ve not been one to code often. I’m trying to figure it out, but it’s not easy.
Any suggestions or options please drop me a line and let me know.
Started using Amarok 2 recently. go to say, that while there are some major improvments it does need some major work before the final release comes out. A lot of the things I was disliking in beta 1 have been fixed. Amarok 2 does pull in your old playlists now and the Album Art manager doesn’t seem to be constantly downloading the best guess from the web. These are important to me as I have image files in every album folder with said art.
The thing that I noticed right now is the lack of ability to transfer playlists to media devices. I couldn’t take advantage of this either way until the transcoding plugin is fixed or added due to all my music being in flac. iPod doesn’t use flac so it has to be transcoded down into mp3.
Aside from crashes wich are expected from Beta software it seems like it’s on the right path to improve and already wonderful media program. Grated, it’s not as clean or crisp as the 1.4.x series but that’s been developed for a long time and 2 is a complete rebuild into the KDE4 realm.
