Towards Amarok Mobile: Beginning separation

[Bart Cerneels]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 02:38, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> On 03/19/2010 06:03 PM, Erik Hovland wrote:
>>> My first goal is to get several of the services working. There are
>>> already music clients on Maemo; there aren't any Ampache clients or
>>> Last.fm clients. So I figure a good way to get established is to provide
>>> what's not already there, and then fill out the functionality as possible.
>>
>> There happens to be a very good last.fm client on maemo:
>> http://vagalume.igalia.com/
>>
>> You may want to establish another feature/capability then that first.
>
> Ampache has always been the first goal. For no other reason than that I
> want it (which is the best reason, as it's motivating  :-)  ).
>
>> you a leg up. If you are thinking about getting podcast stuff working, remember
>> that the gpodder developer is very active w/ their maemo port.

The podcast stuff doesn't need any porting. All the parsing is
separated from the storage of metadata and files. And I'm very sure we
have the absolute fastest podcast parsing of any client and can make
it even faster by stopping the parsing (and download of the feed xml)
early.

>
> I'm not. The gpodder client sucks, but all podcast clients suck.

Does that include Amarok? Need to work on that then.

>
>> No gaping flaws from my viewing angle. I am excited about a decent
>> music player on MeeGo/Harmattan. All of the other attempts to put a
>> good player on maemo have never been sufficient for everyday use.
>> If you post scut work to do, I will do my best to try to participate where
>> time allows.
>
> I'll keep that in mind, and thanks. What do you know about databases on
> Maemo?
>
> --Jeff
>
>
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