RFC: Let's make Amarok2 actually play music!

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

+1

I pan to spend the first month or so of my Magnatune employment doing
just that, making it more usable.

One of my ideas right now is to do a _really_ simple playlist view
that will work basically like the one in the 1.4 series. This should
be fairly quick to do, will allow us to actually use Amarok for
listening to music and it might be nice to have a classical playlist
view to appease some of the users that seem unwilling to let go of the
old one! :-)

then we can always work on getting the fancy new playlist view (which
I am really looking forwards to by the way) working properly.

- Nikolaj

On 9/1/07, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> on #amarok.dev we've just been discussing our development goals for
> the near future. Here's my suggestion:
>
> "Let's focus on making Amarok2 usable enough so that *we* can use it
> for our daily music needs!"
>
> I am convinced that the day we developers actually start using Amarok2
> daily for playing music (instead of just for testing purposes) will
> make a *big* difference. It's a whole different story whether you work
> on an application that might theoretically work some day, or if you
> use it yourself to actually do something useful. Once we achieve this
> goal, this will provide a huge motivation boost to us, and also to our
> users who are eager to beta-test Amarok2.
>
> Also it will help us to focus on the essential things. It's very easy
> to get lost in details. We can do the polishing later on, there will
> be plenty of time.
>
> Personally I need a collection, and a playlist, and I need the thing
> to actually play music without crashing. Then I would consider
> switching to Amarok2. What about you?
>
> --
> Mark
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