gsoc 2008 projects

[JD]

There is also an excellent tagging system called EsasyTag.
http://easytag.sourceforge.net
Of course, one that is integrated into Amarok would be much
more convenient.

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> 12.03.08, 17:16, "Ian Monroe" <ian at monroe.nu>:
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>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Delia Arsinte <delia.arsinte at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> My name is Delia, I am a 3rd student at the University of Bucharest, major
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>>> computer science and I would like to contribute to amarok through the summer
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>>> of code program. I have been using Amarok for two years and I consider that
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>>> it is the most complex and complete music player. Therefore I am eager to
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>>> I have already read the ideas list posted at
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>>> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#Amarok
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>>> and I am interested in two projects: mass tagging and playlists and
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>>> playlists browser..
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>>> 1) Tagging system
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>>> I think the tagging system would be very useful for many users that have
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>>> large playlists. I have about 8000 melodies in my playlist and sometimes the
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>>> search system when you have many untagged files is not enough to listen to
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>>> specific genre of music. A album based tagging system like the one in
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>>> picardQT would be suitable for amarok.
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>>> I already installed pircardQT and I played a little bit with it. The idea is
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>>> very nice, but I think picardQTs interface is not so intuitive and it does
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>>> not support the mp3 format, at least it didn't work on my computer.  The
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>>> EasyTag interface is very nice, I am thinking to propose a similar GUI, but
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>>> with PicardQT's functionalities. As stated before, it is quite hard to
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>>> design a proper interface that everyone likes. I already have some ideas,
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>>> but I need to think about it a little bit more.
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>>> 2) Playlist and playlist browser
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>>> This is a very nice project. I had problems with the playlist for large
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>>> number of melodies in the past, now things are a lot better, but still it
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>>> needs improvements. I need to investigate the problem a little bit more.
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>>>  I will also be on the IRC channel for further discussion.
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>> Sounds like you got a good start. I would suggest writing up proposals
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>> for both. I'm eean on IRC if you have questions.
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>> Ian
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> Hello!
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> Just wondering, There is a wery good KDE/Qt mass tagging application, namely Kid3
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> http://kid3.sourceforge.net/
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> that could do anything I want for tagging, very powerful.
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> It is not mentioned in description as possible reference, although there could be 
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> not only UI inspiration, but code reuse as well ( not sure, but maybe).
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> Well it really was my dream to be able to start kid3 from Amarok in one click.
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> So, was it intentional, or rather slip from your consideration?  
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