Good luck getting the job! It would be great if you could get SoundCloud to pay you to work on this. ;)
On 12/11/2014 09:43 AM, Julian Simioni wrote: > Hi, > I like your idea of integrating SoundCloud to Amarok. I have contributed > (a tiny bit) to Amarok in the past, and know C++, Javscript, Qt, and > many other languages pretty well. I've always wanted to contribute more, > and actually I am trying to get a job at SoundCloud in Berlin! > > What timezone are you in? I'd love to collaborate via skype, and we > could together probably make some good progress over the coming weeks. > > Julian > > On 12/10, Be wrote: >> Hi Amarok developers, what's up? I don't see much recent activity in the >> archives of this list, on the website, blogs, or the wiki. What are the >> future plans for Amarok? I am interested in getting involved, primarily >> to make Amarok an awesome SoundCloud client. >> >> I started working on a QtScript service plugin to stream from SoundCloud >> (attached), but it seems that Amarok's QtScript API will not be enough >> to really make use of SoundCloud's features. Is it possible to add to >> Amarok's GUI outside of populating the collection pane or putting simple >> HTML in the the info or lyrics applets with QtScript? I initially was >> thinking of trying to do an ugly hack of using the info applet or a >> lyric script to display information from SoundCloud and links to like a >> track, comment, follow an artist, and other functions. However, I do not >> see a way to do that without opening a separate browser, which kinda >> defeats the point of the Amarok service. >> >> So it seems that this service would have to be written in C++ to really >> make it awesome or a lot of work would have to be done to extend the API >> exposed to QtScript. Amarok already has places in its GUI that it would >> make sense to integrate SoundCloud functions. Comments could be >> displayed along the play bar like bookmarks, analogous to how they are >> displayed on the waveform on SoundCloud's web interface. Adding a >> comment would be done like adding a bookmark to a track in the local >> collection. Perhaps the interface for this could be reused to create an >> annotation feature for bookmarks in the local collection. Liking tracks, >> following artists, showing who an artist follows, sharing >> tracks/playlists to the users' stream or a group, and maybe more >> functions could be invoked by pressing buttons added to the Current >> Track applet when a track from SoundCloud is playing. >> >> As for the collections pane, this could be structured like: >> Users >> -User list generated from search terms, with thumbnails of user's avatars >> --Playlists >> ---Playlists with album art and year >> ----track list in order of playlist >> ---Other tracks, using user's avatar as thumbnail >> ----track list >> --All tracks >> ---track list >> --Likes >> ---track list >> --Shares >> ---track list >> --Following >> ---user list >> --Groups >> ---group list >> -Own account >> --Same as above, plus: >> --Personal stream >> ---track list >> Tracks >> -Track list generated from search terms >> Groups >> -Group list generated from search terms >> --Tracks >> ---Track list >> --Members >> ---User list >> --Contributors >> ---User list >> --Moderators >> ---User list >> >> What would make this service awesome (and another feature that does not >> seem possible via QtScript) and really take advantage of SoundCloud's >> social features is that the hierarchy would be interlinking. Double >> clicking a user or group anywhere in the hierarchy would load that >> user/group in the user/group list at the second level of the hierarchy. >> For example, when viewing who User A follows, double clicking on User B >> in that list would load User B's information, displayed at the same >> level of the hierarchy as User A with all the elements (playlists, >> tracks, likes, following, groups) shown for any user. >> >> What will make this a challenge for me is that I do not know C++ or Qt >> yet. I have some programming experience with Python, Bash, and >> EMCAScript. I think writing this SoundCloud service could be a fun and >> useful way to learn C++ and Qt (which I also want to learn to contribute >> to Mixxx). >> >> Suggestions welcome! :) > >> _______________________________________________ >> Amarok-devel mailing list >> Amarok-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel > _______________________________________________ > Amarok-devel mailing list > Amarok-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
