Google Summer of Code and Other Possibilities

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:32 AM,  <ncschulk at mtu.edu> wrote:
> Hello Amarok Staff,
>  I happened to be visiting your site a few days ago and noticed that you
>  were a participating member of the Google Summer of Code.  As I've been a
>  faithful user of Amarok since Fall of 2006, I was intrigued to say the
>  least.  I understand I am piping up slightly late to begin an application.
>   However, I would at least like to begin a dialogue about helping the
>  project.

:) We are always looking for help.

>  At first glance I am leaning toward the introduction of tabbed playlists
>  for a project idea.  This was an amazing addition to web browsers and
>  every now and then, specifically in Windows Media Player, I find their
>  playlist editor lacking.  In preparation for road trips I pull my
>  favorites together, then make playlists depending on themes and common
>  sounds.
>  An addendum to this could be the capability to generate a playlist with a
>  certain tag, while maintaining your current playlist.

The idea of tabbed playlists has never been very popular in our team tbh.
So you might not want to spent time on a proposal for this.
Feel free to proof us wrong of course ;-)

>  My second choice would be the CD Tower concept, which I can see being
>  substantially more difficult.  There are many databases for album covers
>  and very few, if any, databases for album spines.  A friend and I were
>  discussing it, and the idea came up to add a hexadecimal color value for
>  the album database listing.  This would allow for a bit of individuality
>  for each CD, without having to keep a second set of image files for the
>  user's collection.  Its simultaneously easy for the end user to input,
>  with the introduction of a color wheel, or for an online database to add
>  in time.
>  An addendum to this idea would be the ability to rank albums via the
>  tower.  A user could pull a favorite album to the top of the list, where
>  it would be seated higher in their personal ranking.
>  About me:
>  I am a sophomore at Michigan Technological University, seeking a Computer
>  Science Bachelors Degree.  I have been coding in programming languages for
>  the past five years.  These include, by length of usage, Visual Basic.NET,
>  C++, Java, and MIPS assembly.  My preferred OS is Fedora 7, and I
>  additionally run Fedora 8, Windows XP and Windows Vista on separate
>  platforms.
>
>  Thank you and have a wonderful day.


Cheers
Lydia


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Lydia Pintscher
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