Ampache service, was: Re: extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 4/2/08, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>  My vision has always been to make as much content available to the
>  user as possible. Quite simple. My big mistake might be that I have
>  not really at any point taken smart or dynamic playlist much into
>  account, mainly because there has not been any. I think the difference
>  is that why you see the Ampache collection as an integrated par of
>  your music, I have so far just considered it an convenient way of
>  accessing music somewhere else. I am guessing your view is colored by
>  the DAPP collection which I btw have never tried or used.
>
>  As for thinking the proposals are weak, fair enough, but so far I
>  don't even think we have not even gotten to that discussion yet, as it
>  has so far always been about changing the projects to something
>  completely different than the proposals. For the record I would agree
>  that the Ampache one could use some more work, while I find the
>  Mp3Tunes quite good! It certainly matches how I would go about
>  implementing stuff, getting collection to collection copying up and
>  running, making Mp3Tunes up and downloading work, and using that as a
>  springboard/test case for looking at synchronization in general. I
>  would never try to design a framework in advance, and I have great
>  respect for you being able to do just that, but I have sen it fail in
>  real life way too many times.

I still don't understand in what way the two "visions" contradict each
other. Seem to me that complete network transparency is just an
extension of your design, so you wouldn't lose anything.

-- 
Mark