Finished the SKY.fm integration

Finally I managed to finish the SKY.fm integration into Amarok using the ruby script. The script has to be installed in /tmp/kde-<user>/ folder for this to work. I will look into improving it. Currently just the SKY.fm scraping ruby file is available here and here is a snapshot of how it looks.

Fullscreen mode of Amarok

Now that somebody has developed a script called amarokFS to display fullscreen version of the player, it can be made the foundation for some of the ideas. Discussion at http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,13637.0.html

Amarok and Nokia Nseries

Glorious day today (it was a few days back), finally got Amarok detect my Nokia N75 as a media/MTP device and I can browse the playlist. This site was really helpful. I suppose this can be applied to any Nokia S60 3rd generation phones. Next I have to make it play and transfer tracks.

lyrics page has conditional 'Powered by' line

I have modified the lyrics viewer of contextbrowser not to show 'Powered by' line if site and site_url tags not present in .spec file (in cases where the scripts want to handle them selves) - here.

Hindi lyrics script for Amarok

Created a lyrics script to fetch lyrics of hindi songs from giitaayan.com and show them in devnagari script using iTRANS. It falls back on Lyrc or Astraweb for non-indian songs. The latest version can be downloaded from http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=50890 or an earlier version here.

Starting a new blog ...

I am starting a new blog to post about my trials and tribulations while playing with and listening to Amarok. Started out with version 1.4.4 from Kubuntu repository. Currently as of Feb 11th, I am running version 1.4.5-SVN patch 632592 with two of my own changes.