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!

Please set the priorities according to this list: Feature Priority

For the Scope Difficulty, see this list: Feature Scope Difficulty

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 2.9

Reorganize the Handbook

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Unsorted - later releases, outdated or already implemented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
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
Web Services Integrated

Other