Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

[andreas k]

Yesterday I have a look to clementine they have local music AND a great set
of online account too. As someone write here before, they are also working
on a QT5 port. I understand that the clementine users are looking for a
amarok 1.4 player, but there are a huge numbers of audio players with
different skins.

cheers Andreas

2015-08-04 21:40 GMT+02:00 Ing. Konrad Renner <konrad.renner at kolabnow.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I can help test and maybe some easy tasks coding ( I have not coded with
> C++ for some years and have to get in again).
>
> Yours Konrad
>
> Am 04.08.2015 5:47 nachm. schrieb Andrew Lake <jamboarder at gmail.com>:
> >
> > So far Stefan identified the following as needed:
> > -) More People to discuss & flesh out the vision [1]
> > -) A motivated team of designers, software architects, coders & testers,
> > dedicated to creating a modern music player for our users
> >
> > I think it shouldn't be difficult to get input on fleshing out the
> vision. We could use the KDE Forums or a blog post for that. I also think
> we won't have much trouble getting testers. You can count on help from the
> VDG for design and from myself to directly support this effort. So really
> what remains from the list is software architect(s) and coder(s).
> >
> > I count the following people who appear to have made explicit offers to
> help:
> > - Stefan Dertkis (original poster, coder?)
> > - Eshtan Robateau (architect? + coder?)
> > - Andrew Lake (UI design + architecture support if needed) + VDG
> >
> > If anyone else is interested, please, please speak up. I genuinely think
> there  is clear value in what Stefan proposes. The current VDG Music Player
> design, including the vision, personas and scenarios, are far from set in
> stone so we can certainly revisit it as necessary. Also I think we can
> eventually work out the practical details of what code base or pre-existing
> solutions we could take advantage of in order to fulfill the vision and
> avoid the perils of creating yet-another-music-player. Whether that
> solution is from-scratch or as simple as a skin doesn't concern me terribly
> at this point.
> >
> > Stefan, I suggest we take a chance and start with a small core team of
> folks who are willing to volunteer at this early stage. If that team can
> produce something concrete in the near term, we can work on growing the
> contributor base when people have something more concrete to look at.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Andrew
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 3:21 AM Eshton Robateau  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> >To solve this I think three very central question need to be answered
> >>
> >> >very precisely before doing anything else.
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >> >1. How many people will actively commit to working on this as their
> >>
> >> >*main* project?
> >>
> >> >2. What does the primary target audience of Plasma even need?
> >>
> >> >3. What do the contributors want to actually have in the end
> >>
> >> >understanding their own time constraints?
> >>
> >> I'm committed to work on this as main. I've been swimming in the
> bangarang codebase and so far we're almost rewriting the entire thing. From
> my perspective, porting is near rewrite, so it's better to have a good
> design and vision from the start. Might I suggest that we simply have a
> survey of what our users (plasma or general) want from a music player
> instead of relying on personas. It seems a bit naive to assume we only have
> casual users and power users. Feedback from actual users is more concrete
> than anything persona we can invent. FWIW I want a music player that plays
> music and supports playlists and media info, I'm not likely to use other
> features much.
> >>
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