GSoC Proposal First Draft: Media Device Feature Completion in Amarok 2

[Alejandro Wainzinger]

So under the assumption that the majority seems in favor of making
Linux media device support decent, any direct comments on the proposal
itself would be appreciated.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree except for the fact that the media device support on linux
>> itself is quite shitty (apologies for the euphimism), especially how
>> we do not support UMS at all. Nor do we support syncing podcasts to
>> ipods *in any way*. I'm all for equalizing the mac and windows
>> platforms, but given the choice between well-implemented media device
>> support on linux and none on win/mac, and half working/functional
>> implementations on all 3, i would choose the former. it just makes us
>> look bad.
>
> +1
>
> All in all I am not in to much of a hurry to push Mac and windows
> versions beyond beta untill the core app is rock solid. Amarok 2.1.0
> is looking really good, but there are still big sore spots that would
> make Amarok loose ground in competition with iTunes, WMP and friends.
>
> So, if someone wants to specifically do stuff that will aid the
> Windows and Mac versions, fine, but I would prioritize core app
> projects higher.
>
> - Nikolaj
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