Moodbar in Amarok 2.0?

[Ofir Klinger]

So, is there someone which wants to work on the moodbar?

Moodbar doesn't have to be pre-installed with Amarok, it can be an option,
like in Amarok1.

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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv> wrote:

> On 2008.08.21. 17:55, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> ...
> >> If someone outside the US would like to take on maintaining the
> >> moodbar, I don't think any of the Amarok developers would mind.  But
> >> all I hear right now are inquiries about its status (or complaints
> >> that it hasn't been ported), so I'm being a little pessimistic that
> >> given the patent problem, I doubt that it will get picked up any time
> >> soon.
> >
> > What this really means is that the situation is similar to MP3 support:
> > Amarok can work with it, but cannot be distributed with it.
> >
> > If someone wants to rewrite the moodbar using the analysis covered by
> > the patent, it must be done in such a way that it can be plugged into
> > Amarok independently, yet, if plugged in, work seamlessely.  This
> > happened somewhat in Amarok 1, but as Mark said, the integration wasn't
> > great.
>
> from a user or coder perspective ? :)
> from a user perspective, it integrated quite nicely - my main use was
> for the seekbar anyway.
>
> > An aside: if Soren and I team up to make a single external app for both
> > AFT tagging and fingerprinting, which will likely happen at some point,
> > then the same app could be used for moodbar calculation, methinks.  It
> > would save a lot of time and keep from there being a proliferation of
>
> that would be awesome. i can't use a1 without moodbar anymore, i have
> gotten too used to it...
>
> > helper apps.  I'd also like to see the mood information stored in the
> > files, if they are small enough.
>
> current moodfiles are 3k.
> how could that be stored in files - as a new tag ?
>
> > --Jeff
> --
>   Rich
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