Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

[Mario Fux]

Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015, 15.16:56 schrieb Allan Sandfeld Jensen:

Morning

> > 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 features are either poorly designed, broken or outdated.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.
> 
> As long as it does the core functionality that users of Amarok uses
> (indexing and playing audio), and the Amarok team are on board, it
> shouldn't be a problem. It IS a large codebase however. Just remember
> while a simple audio player is simple to write, the hard part is the audio
> indexing and cataloging,

Simple and maybe naive question: why not using Baloo for this. IIRC there was 
someting about a music or multimedia player using Baloo already. Jungle or so 
was it's preliminary name?

> and dealing with third party plugin for the
> popular internet audio products de jure.

griits
Mario