Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

[Stefan Derkits]

Hello Teo,

On 2015-07-30 13:30, Teo Mrnjavac wrote:
> Have you thought about picking up and taking over Amarok? A quick look at the 
> commit log for the past few months suggests that it's essentially 
> unmaintained, so if it keeps this pace it's unlikely to stay the swiss-knife 
> of music players as you suggest.
> 
> This stuff is hard and time consuming so I think it makes sense to reuse code.
> 
> While Amarok does have a sizeable feature set, a good portion of those 
> features are either poorly designed, broken or outdated. Perhaps by taking 
> over as maintainer, yanking out all the cruft and taking UX hints from the VDG 
> you could get a modern and pretty music player up and running more quickly and 
> easily than jumping into the umpteenth "magic rewrite that will fix all things 
> forever". You could cut down on the feature set significantly, and present the 
> features that you don't remove in a much better way.

thanks for your answer.

I was definitly thinking about starting (actually I don't feel confident
enough to create the architecture) from an existing codebase, but
probably not from the Amarok codebase (except of reusing some parts). I
also talked with strohel at Akademy who has a better knowledge of the
codebase and his opinion was that UI & backendcode are too much
intertwined to allow replacing the UI easily.

What I don't want to do is to take over Amarok. While it is true that
Amarok is pretty much unmaintained, I don't think a player that has
maybe only a third of the features should be called Amarok.

Codebases I feel that are small and could be a good starting point
(better evaluation is of course needed):
-) Bangarang
-) JuK

And of course inspiration, GPL code and experience can be shared with
many other music players.

Stefan

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