Hi,
Firstly, thank you for the feedback. It's always cool to hear from our
users :)
Let me answer point by point.
Le 08/11/2015 21:13, Phil a écrit :
First, I must say that I truly love the wonderful Amarok music player,
Thank You. I have checked a lot of music players and music managers in
Ms Windows and Linux for a long time now, and I still think Amarok is
the best one I have found. I am currently running Linux Mint KDE 17.1
which I also think is absolutely superb.
That is what we like to hear, and I'm happy you enjoy it .
Secondly, I am having a problem when recording an Internet Streaming
station in that it will not stop "streamripper" from recording when I
click the stop recording button, even if I set a timer, even if I exit
Amarok. I have to logout, or bring up "Ksysguard" to kill the process,
or it will continue to record.
I finally found the program that controls this, which I think is Java
Script, in "/home/phil/.kde/share/apps/amarok/*main.js*". I can see
the code block on line 139 "function recStreamStop()" which should
stop "streamripper", which is not working on my system. But, I do not
know how to edit the code correctly, or what to put in there to stop
"streamripper", maybe "killall -9 streamripper", and where would I put
that? If there is some better method, or code, to do this? Please let
me know.
function recStreamStop() {
if (recording == true) {
recording = false;
timer.stop();
rectimer.stop();
callerProc.terminate();
callerProc.kill();
removeRelay();
* killall -9 streamripper*
Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.mrecStream.enabled = true;
Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.recRadio.enabled = true;
Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.recWav.enabled = true;
Amarok.Window.ToolsMenu.recStop.enabled = false;
}
}
I cannot answer about this, since I've never worked on it.. Let's wait
for someone who know it.
Thirdly, it would be very cool, and functional, and super convenient,
to have the easy ability to put in multiple play and or recording
start and stop dates and times, and or daily schedules, for individual
Internet streaming stations, similar to "Kradio" 's Alarms, or an even
better easier "right click" a streaming station, "add timer" method;
and obviously the ability to manage and edit timers.
I think you can create a script to do this. This is not in our
priorities for the moment, but feel free to open a ticket on our
bugtracker to ask for enhancement. However, if you really want it, I
would rather advise you to try to play around this with the scripting
tools provided with amarok.
Here you can find some documentation about it :
https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Script_API
Fourthly, it would be really nice to have a direct "single-click" way
to get to the "saved Playlists", "Amarok Database", and or "Playlist
files on disk" in an opened state (with the lists already displayed),
on the toolbar, or even a keyboard shortcut, and or maybe one or two
icons (launchers), at the top or bottom of the "current playlist"; and
having multiple playlist tabs and tab options in the currently playing
playlist would sure be great too.
This was already asked, and we all agree with you. We are currently
working a lot to port Amarok to the new Framework and to Qt5, but I
think this comes next :) (and I hope so!)
Lastly, it would be also be nice, although not essential, to have
Amarok, be able to open and play videos (ex: music videos), even if it
spawns an external media (video) player which would require a
configuration setting somewhere, maybe a plug-in, or script.
I think this will never be added... To be good in something, it's better
to focus in this something I think, and for us it's music... Check VLC
or whatever player you like.
I hope I answered your questions. If you have some interests in taking
part in the development, we are also happy to welcome you :)
Cheers and have Fun !
Olivier
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