Amarok Mobile

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

Wednesday 15 August 2007 skrev Bart Cerneels:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been granted a Qtopia Greenphone to develop a mobile version of
> Amarok. The grant program requires me to submit a working version by
> October 31th, so I guess I'll be busy with that in the little free time I
> can find.
>
> I'll looking for good ideas, UI concepts and mockups for Amarok Mobile
> (and a better name).

  As someone (apachelogger) said in channel - Mobirok :)

> So feel free to comment.
>
> Here are my notes:
> - No big database, storage space is measured in the lower GBs.

  There is a point to take into account here as well - there is also battery 
life, so a single scan (or even one generated by amarok, with the -option- to 
manually scan on the device) would conserve battery. This is a huge concern 
on especially the high-powered modern devices, where the backlight, colour 
screen and animations and so on drain the battery very fast.

> - smart/dynamic playlists can be created by Amarok Desktop, keeping
> the Mobile code simple.

  Creating the rules for them, at least :) Actually running them is another 
thing, though - i don't see how we could really do dynamic playlists 
pre-calculated :)

> - Amarok Mobile will have excellent podcast support (my personal itch)
> with progress saving, podcast playlists, shownotes, etc. This will be
> the killer feature!

  Nom ;)

> - Non dynamic Context (Cover, Lyrics, limited wiki info, etc.)

  Certainly not dynamic, but... well-sorted, and laid out vertically.

> - Touch base UI, ABSOLUTELY no stylus needed.

  This is where my suggestion with the accellerometers comes in - if we have 
the ability to tell how the user is tilting the device, what sort of controls 
could we introduce to take advantage of that information?

- A bit of notes from myself as well: playback statistics imported back into
  your Amarok. We will need some way to make sure stats are only grabbed
  once... Maybe also do last.fm submission directly on the device?
  This -could- potentially be heavy, but i think that it would be a nifty
  thing to be able to do (not to mention that to my knowledge, no other mobile
  player has this ability)

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..Dan // Leinir..
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