extragear/multimedia/amarok
Ian Monroe
ian.monroe at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 04:13:22 CET 2007
SVN commit 644037 by ianmonroe:
remove irrelevant items from the TODO
look through this and make sure I didn't take out something important.
CCMAIL:amarok-devel at kde.org
M +0 -124 TODO
--- trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/TODO #644036:644037
@@ -41,56 +41,13 @@
-subitems?
-just disabled?
- 'stop after current track' should work
- <markey> - when you've never listenend to lastfm before, all stream links on the
- website are disabled ("Download the player"). we need to do a handshake on
- startup once, and then set a config item, e.g. handshaked=true.
- <markey> xine-engine: when "xine could not init any audio driver" happens, always retry
- with Autodetect. This seems to be an issue with leftover amarokrc's from 1.3.
-
<sebr> Adding an m3u with non existant items has filesize = 16,777,216.0 TB!
- <sebr> Refactor code for PlaylistBrowser::removeSelectedItems(). I can see pathological cases
- where it won't work.
-
- <illiss.> Is using the score for the number, but the rating for the vis. in the context browser
- confusing? (I think it is, but that might be becuase my theme doesn't use stars but a
- partially-filled bar). If so it should be reverted for beta 1, I have a better solution
- already planned but that won't be in time.
-
- <illiss.> The various UI and behaviour refactorings for Dynamic Mode should be finished up and
- polished. Among them, add a button to turn it off in the bar-above-the-playlist, fix
- drag-and-dropping of dynamic playlists, and when loading a dynamic playlist, clear the
- existing playlist first, instead of making it dynamic (which has all sorts of nasty side
- effects).
-
- <sebr> Podcast Fixme's:
- * Have i listened to podcast streamed?
-
<illiss.> Loading normal (M3U) playlists from the playlist browser doesn't block the UI per se,
but it does nothing for really long time, until suddenly the whole playlist shows up,
which is strange and confusing.
- <markey> Tooltips don't work for 3rd level items in the Playlist Browser. They do how
- however work (for me) for 2nd level items. Very bad, cause you can't read the
- text!
-
- <sebr> When starting a drag in the collection browser, we can block the gui if the user makes a
- selection which is sql intensive (eg, select all). Instead of calculating the items
- in each of those nodes, we should add the sql to the drag and allow the playlist loader
- to do the work for us (which is threaded).
- <muesli> See SqlLoader class in playlistloader. We do the very same stuff for
- Smart-Playlists already.
-
- <sebr> The unknown album should ALWAYS be shown last. Year has a higher weighting than album
- name. We should special case the Unknown album.
-
- <markey> When all 5 browser tabs are activated, the current tab button is drawn a few
- pixels below the normal position. This has the side effect that the separator line
- at the bottom of the bottom becomes invisible.
- You can see the problem easily when you hide the current browser by clicking twice
- the button twice. This problem AFAIK also affects 1.3-branch.
-
<markey> Add DCOP functions for showing dialogs, similar to kdialog.
<sebr> More consistent playlistbrowser drag and drop actions; No dropping of default streams, set
@@ -99,22 +56,12 @@
<sebr> Use KIO queues for podcast download queues. Should simplify the lot. Problems atm included
selecting multiple downloads individually, and automatic downloads occuring for more that one
podcast item.
-
- <markey> In EngineController::play(), add a sanity check when querying the track length
- from the engine. Apparently AAC can deliver ridiculous values with GST and Helix,
- like 1192479:38:49. If length is too extreme, default to the TagLib provided
- value.
-
<eean> Currently custom dynamic playlist selection is simply based on the titles. So its less then
ideal. Via some method, each playlist should be assigned iteratively a number paired with its
type.. Dynamic playlists and static playlists should probably have seperate numbering so
that the "next" number can be determined by looking at one XML file.
Remembering which PartyEntry was used on close should be remembered with the same method.
- <eean> Smart playlists bypass checks on whether the media is playable or not.
- Or perhaps such media shouldn't be in the collection at all? This is the sort of
- thing we're going to have to worry about now that we have m4a and wma tag support.
-
<markey> Consider moving the GHNS provider list to a different server than amarok.kde.org,
possibly download.kde.org or similar. (When our site is down, the GHNS feature fails
to work entirely)
@@ -123,21 +70,9 @@
PlaylistLoader::isPlaylistFile(const KURL&), which only looks at the filename's extension. This
fails for URLs like http://dir.xiph.org/listen.php?pid=669641&file=listen.m3u, because the filename
is "listen.php". So it must look at the whole url instead.
-
- <mxcl> On first-ever-run, if Amarok crashes building the sqlite collection, it is impossible to _ever_
- build a collection unless the user's amarokrc file is deleted! This MUST be fixed before 1.2!
- ::muesli:: We could just _always_ try to create the sql tables on startup. This would fail on
- ::muesli:: systems which already got the tables, but would fix the situation where tables are
- ::muesli:: missing, as in this situation. Just pump the debug of these calls to /dev/null.
-
<mxcl> Just before we load any engine plugin, write to a file, and it we don't succeed the next time
Amarok starts show a big warning saying "Gah!" and load a different one.
- <mxcl> If you inline set the title tag to "", prettyTitle gets inserted as the title tag.
-
- <markey> When the KDE color scheme is changed while Amarok is running, all toolbar buttons (those with text)
- lose their texts.
-
<shakes> The scrobbler code should report some sort of error message rather than just saying that the
submit failed. That way when last.fm goes down we wouldn't get so many people asking why they
can't submit. It'd also be nice to be able to tell people they've got their password wrong.
@@ -155,13 +90,6 @@
music is located. Ignore /opt/, /usr etc. to avoid adding sound effects. Prompt
user with the directories at the end of the scan, allowing them to exclude some.
- <eean> The FileBrowser doesn't check for recursive symlinks. This is a KDirOperator (or the
- classes it depends on) problem.
-
- <eean> Basically need to re-add some of the functionality I removed in re-doing dynamic
- --><eean> custom playlist creation.
- 1) the default dynamic playlists need to be more insistent, the same way the
- the default smart playlists are.
<eean> Implement leinir's mockup:
www.leinir.dk/temp/gallery/?image=pictures/amarok-playlist-bar-dynamic-mode.png
<leinir> The idea with the look of the top is, as you can probably see from the colours
@@ -171,21 +99,9 @@
<mp8> Album covers as icons from filebrowser.
- <eean> When the player window shades, it should lose its title bar and be replaced with something more
- compactish. This would probably have to be created manually.
-
- <sebr> Make the player window scroll the text in the opposite direction if using right-2-left text
- (eg hebrew or arabic)
-
- <sebr> Use Metabar's box retraction animation to the context browser. More iCandy. Any Javascript experts around?
-
<mxcl> Should be able to open collection browser by right clicking on stuff in contextB, so show the
artist or album that is right clicked.
- <markey> AudioCD support for gst engine (cdparanoia ! *sink). -->markey
-
- <markey> We should cut down on unnecessary/redundant debug output/warnings (noise).
-
<mxcl> Perhaps a nice idea: when you drag playlistItems to a branch in the collection browser
it prompts to change the track's tags, so drag a track to the "moolaaa" album and that
track get's it's album tag changed to "moolaaa" and is inserted into the branch, so the user
@@ -203,46 +119,8 @@
another file from that folder for the next few minutes. what about hdd
sleep-timeouts? opinions?
- <mxcl> Determine some behavior for the clear/shuffle/etc. buttons when a search is in action
- clear -> only clear the stuff that was searched for?
- shuffle -> stop the search and do normal shuffle?
- ADDitionally what to do when user rearranges a set of items that are the search result?
- <larson> No big deal to me as long as the behaviour is consistent. I.e. if shuffle shuffles
- the search, then clear should clear the search only, and visa versa.
-
- <larson> Make playlist toolbar buttons toggle like the playerwidget buttons.
-
- Toolbar button in FileBrowser for switching recursive directory reading.
-
- <mxcl> Can't resize newly displayed columns if they are hidden at beginning of session -->mxcl
-
- <muesli> Add an option "clean up playlist on startup".
- <mxcl> Do you mean remove duplicates or dead entries etc. ? Cool.
-
- <mxcl> Option: don't crossfade for sequential tracks on same album. Comments? -->mxcl
- Of course, there would still be the up to 150ms gap, but we can fix that some other time..
- <markey> Please clarify: is this the same as BR #75388 ?
- <mxcl> No, this is just to make crossfading not ruin album transitions
-
- Add dirs to combo history when user adds a track from that dir to the playlist.
-
- "Show playlist" to the right click menu, redundant but necessary.
-
- More KTips, better KTips, somehow use the "Did you know" tip dialog (eg kmail, gideon, etc.) -->mxcl
-
- Option to automatically adjust column widths.
-
- Option to implicitly sort playlist by { track, album } (on drop only) -->mxcl
-
- <berkus> Playmode indication button in main widget (repeat track/pl/shuffle), clickable.
-
-
LONG-TERM:
- <sebr> Support multiple collections. This could be really powerful, and could be handled
- with the collection browser. We could support non-local collections, audio cd/dvds,
- NFS/Samba etc. This would also allow us to retrieve tracks from other networked pcs.
- Auto-polling of added collections for a 'hot-sync' style detection of collections.
<markey> Use more accurate interpolation for analyzers (cubic or spline)
@@ -266,8 +144,6 @@
Audio system info widget, showing all available codecs and similar info.
- Resizable playerwidget, like in Winamp3.
-
IDEAS:
Bookmarks inside of tracks (good for very long tracks), and nifty bookmark browser
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