Need a mentor for an SoK idea

[vedant agarwala]

Hello Ma'am,


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi Vedant,
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:13 PM, vedant agarwala <vedant.kota at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a idea for SoK: Improved Lyrics fetching and display.
> > As of now Amarok uses a script to download lyrics from lyricwiki.org. It
> > would be a better idea to make this an integral part of Amarok.
>
> The current script IS integral part of Amarok. Making more options
> available is better done through scripts, because the lyric websites
> available out there are totally unreliable, change very often and it
> is impossible to maintain, as one site works a year and then it is
> gone. We implemented this as a script on purpose :)
>
> ...
> > The lyrics display also needs an upgrade. Currently it displays the
> entire
> > lyrics at once and inaccurately scrolls over time. I want to add karaoke
> > style lyrics display. Depending on the .lrc file, the current playing
> word
> > or line will be highlighted. I know the exact GUI must be compatible with
> > the Amarok look and feel so this is debatable.
>
> You are aware that Karaoke style is not that easy to implement, as you
> would need to use the gstreamer library more or less directly, I don't
> think the karaoke mode is currently supported by the phonon backend.
> Also keep in mind that gstreamer is currently transiting from 0.18.x
> to 1.x, a lot of feature shuffling going on in the various plugins
> there, so it would have to
> > This is a just a rough idea and I will write a more concrete description
> > after feedback for you :)
> > Also, it would be great if I could know the prospective mentors for SoK
> and
> > about how many SoK projects will be hosted by Amarok.
>
> Yes Now I realize that it adding karaoke support is not as easy as I
thought it was. Also, that downloading lyrics from scripts is a better way.

>  Pending somebody actually has time to mentor this, and that is the
> main problem: we are already 4 people mentoring GSoC projects and this
> is thin stretching the availability of the current Amarok developers.
>
> If somebody steps up to mentor you would have to discuss a concrete
> idea with the actual mentor anyway. I for one can't mentor you, and I
> would very much prefer SoK work to be on actually existing code in
> Amarok, like the CUE sheet support which needs work. Just my 2 cts.
>
> I wanted to do a SoK on Amarok but from a realistic point of view this is
unlikely :( . I hope someone steps up for mentoring me on whichever project
he/she thinks is important and I will more than happy to work on it.

>
> Regards, Myriam
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Thank-you,
Vedant.
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