Problems with CoverBling

Casper van Donderen casper.vandonderen at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 20:07:17 CEST 2010


On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:48:54 +0300, Soren Harward <stharward at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Soren Harward <stharward at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org>  
>> wrote:
>>> we apparently face a serious problem with our CoverBling applet:
>>
>> I work in the US patent sector, so I'll take a look at this and advise
>> on some reasonable design changes to CoverBling.
>
> As I suspected (because it's almost always the case with software
> patents), this design patent is far narrower than it looks at first
> glace.  The only thing this design patent covers is that animation
> that flips the cover image around to show the track listing, and the
> animation that flips it back.  That's it.  The patent doesn't cover
> the Cover Flow design as a whole, the animation of switching from one
> cover to another, or even displaying the track information by a
> non-flip transition (like a popup, an overlay, a crossfade, or a cut)
>
> I'm away from the computer that has the 2.3-git version of Amarok on
> it, so I can't verify that the CoverBling doesn't have the flip
> transition.  But I seem to remember that it doesn't even show the
> track listing at all.
>
> And as far as stealing from Apple goes: they ripped Genius off of
> 1.4's "similar artists" feature, and "DJ mode" off our dynamic
> playlists.  Turnabout is fair play.
>

I worked at Philips for some time and there they believe that genius  
playlists were taken from the 'Playalike' functionality in some early  
2000's Philips MP3 players.

Casper

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