gsoc 2008 projects

[Reuben Kagan]

12.03.08, 17:16, "Ian Monroe" <ian at monroe.nu>:

> 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
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Hello!

Just wondering, There is a wery good KDE/Qt mass tagging application, namely Kid3
http://kid3.sourceforge.net/
that could do anything I want for tagging, very powerful.
It is not mentioned in description as possible reference, although there could be 
not only UI inspiration, but code reuse as well ( not sure, but maybe).
Well it really was my dream to be able to start kid3 from Amarok in one click.
So, was it intentional, or rather slip from your consideration?  
--
.RK.