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

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

I think it is a good proposal for an important project.

I would be interested in a bit more detail on what you intend to
accomplish with UMS devices. What level of features are you aiming for
and so on.

- Nikolaj


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Alejandro Wainzinger
<aikawarazuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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