For rokymotion

[Seb Ruiz]

I've CC'd amarok-promo in this reply.

2008/11/20 Orville Bennett <illogical1 at gmail.com>:
> Hey guys,
> This mail is really for rokymotion so I hope Lydia can forward it and
> CC me.
> For the OS X release it looks as though we'll be using the phonon_qt7
> backend, which is basically playing audio using quicktime.
> IF we do, there are a few problems with this approach. The primary one
> being: quicktime, does not by default play non-proprietary formats.
> There are two decoder plugins which do allow playback of virtually all
> audio formats: flip4mac (wma/wmv) and xiphQT (ogg,theora maybe flac).
> On the video side there is Perian.
> We can either do what I plan on doing, which is put a link to these
> decoders at the end of the installation, or we could get in contact
> with these projects and ask for permission/offer to bundle the plugins
> with Amarok. I think this would also be good way to get exposure
> within the mac developer community.
>
> Next order of business: Exposure.
> If we want to reach beyond our taret audience I think we should target
> beyond Digg and /. :-) Personally I think it would be worthwhile to
> contact some mac news sites (and no ARS doesn't count), give them a
> screenshot tour, and invite them to give Amarok a try. I was going to
> start writing something up but I thought it would be best to put this
> up for a vote. I think I brought this up before but I also humbly
> petition for permission to bug mac bloggers as well.

We need to take into account that we have acknowledged that A2 on
mac/win are still beta quality, still straggling behind the linux
experience. We also know of the incredibly high standards of the mac
community with UI design etc. If we are pushing big stories of Amarok
2 on mac/win, we may have significant backlash if the product isn't up
to the same level of quality.

>
> The two point oh release, come hell or high water is guaranteed to be
> picked up by digg, osnews, /., the ., and twitter :-) I think it makes
> sense to put a concerted effort in to the bigger sites: wired, cnet,
> macworld, that paul thurrot (windows dude), neowin.net. What say you
> folks? Let's go big or go home. :-)




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