Forward: This is a repost of the article which I wrote for a recent commit digest report by Danny Allen. Since February, Amarok 2.1 has continued improvement, so don’t take the following content as “exhaustive”.
Amarok 2 marked the first release of the newest generation of Amarok. This marked over two years of very hard work [...]
Recently I began using QtCreator to try and do some development on Amarok. During my day job as a Java developer I get to work with tools like Intellij, which is a great IDE when you can put aside the problems of Java GUI apps on Linux. For a long time I’ve been using [...]
For the last four days I’ve been trying to implement cover art support for iPods in Amarok 2.1. I’ve reached desperate measures here, appealing to the wider public for any hints that might be available.
Here’s the problem. Any returned GdkPixbuf objects from libgpod when called from within Amarok are invalid — they’re either garbled junk, [...]
Amarok 2 is really gearing up to become a great piece of software. We are all are frantically trying to find any time we can steal from our busy schedules of work, study, and good-times to put some of that extra special attention to detail and polish on the application.
This week I finalised the third [...]
