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Hi,<br>
<br>
I read all the ideas that came up on this mailing list. I just want
to sum up what I found interesting and the question that it raised
for me. I don't explain or say that what I mean is true, but if I
have this questions, maybe some other have it..<br>
<br>
<b>Local library - Amarok ?</b><br>
As Myriam said, Amarok is not dead and is slowly beeing ported to
KF5. Amarok was one of the huge assets of KDE and is quite good.
IMOH it lacks the possibility to create playlists (but this might be
corrected by contributing to the project) and the support of network
library. I think that if we want to create a music player that plays
the local library, we'll be in conflict with an awesome software,
which might need a refresh but this can be done by people interested
in Amarok. (And then of course all the Clementine, Rhythmbox.... are
already present and quite good).<br>
<br>
<b>Just playing a music file<br>
</b>In my setup, I have my music library with Amarok, and when I
want to play a file (outside of my library) I use VLC (and when I
was using Ubuntu+Gnome I used Totem). To me, and like lot of people
seem to think, it make no sense to create a not-so-good clone of
VLC. Therefore, the idea of just creating a skin makes more sense.
However, I find VLC quite well integrated in KDE. I can control it
with Kdeconnect, it's in the miniature box, and the design is quite
good in plasma5. However for a regular use, it lacks the
Artist/Album/Genre classification (I have 400G of music)<br>
<br>
<b>Playing streams (local and internet) <br>
</b>I tried Tomahawk and I felt like being online, it wasn't
responding so well (or fast enough). It's cute but I didn't enjoy so
well the experience: the interface and functions seems too complex
for a fast start. Maybe the interesting point would be there: being
able to play local music and streams? However, as highlighted by
several of you, it's rather complex and deezer/spotify/apple
music/... would be hard to connect.<br>
<br>
Do you see something else? <br>
Correct me where I'm wrong and where I missed part of the
discussion. And let's try to precise the project.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Olivier<br>
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Olivier CHURLAUD
Engineer Student at Ecole Centrale de Lyon
in Dual Degree at TU Berlin, M.Sc. Elektrotechnik
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