gsoc 2008 projects

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Delia Arsinte <delia.arsinte at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Delia, I am a 3rd student at the University of Bucharest, major
> computer science and I would like to contribute to amarok through the summer
> of code program. I have been using Amarok for two years and I consider that
> it is the most complex and complete music player. Therefore I am eager to
> help it grow.
>
> I have already read the ideas list posted at
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#Amarok
> and I am interested in two projects: mass tagging and playlists and
> playlists browser..
>
> 1) Tagging system
> I think the tagging system would be very useful for many users that have
> large playlists. I have about 8000 melodies in my playlist and sometimes the
> search system when you have many untagged files is not enough to listen to
> specific genre of music. A album based tagging system like the one in
> picardQT would be suitable for amarok.
>
> I already installed pircardQT and I played a little bit with it. The idea is
> very nice, but I think picardQTs interface is not so intuitive and it does
> not support the mp3 format, at least it didn't work on my computer.  The
> EasyTag interface is very nice, I am thinking to propose a similar GUI, but
> with PicardQT's functionalities. As stated before, it is quite hard to
> design a proper interface that everyone likes. I already have some ideas,
> but I need to think about it a little bit more.
>
> 2) Playlist and playlist browser
>
> This is a very nice project. I had problems with the playlist for large
> number of melodies in the past, now things are a lot better, but still it
> needs improvements. I need to investigate the problem a little bit more.
>
>  I will also be on the IRC channel for further discussion.

Sounds like you got a good start. I would suggest writing up proposals
for both. I'm eean on IRC if you have questions.

Ian