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

[Alejandro Wainzinger]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, good point.  I have fleshed out the UMS a bit more and updated my
proposal on the GSoC site.  Here is a short link just in case:
http://people.ucsc.edu/~awainzin/AW_amarok_mediadevices_SoC_app_09rev2.pdf

>
> - 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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