Hello! I've probably missed some previous conversations, but how about take a look at mopidy and deskop client for this music server? [1]
[1] https://www.mopidy.com/ чт, 30 июля 2015 г. в 14:30, Teo Mrnjavac <t...@kde.org>: > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:42:14 Stefan Derkits wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > in discussions during Akademy 2015 we found out that while we have with > > Plasma 5 a Desktop that has a modern & consistent look, the state of > > some applications isn't that good. And we want to change that. > > > > At the moment KDE has no up-to-date music player. JuK is very simple to > > use, but lacking a modern design. Amarok is and will stay the > > swiss-knife of KDE music players, but also lacking a modern design and > > may be too complicated for new users. > > > > So let's make a new music player, a successor especially to JuK & > Bangarang. > > A music player not for power users or music enthusiasts that want/need > 100s > > of features in a player but a simple player designed & made for users of > > the Plasma 5 Desktop. > > > > What do we already have: > > -) A design vision by the VDG including UI mockups & user stories [0] > > > > What do we need: > > -) 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 > > > > This music player should not replace Amarok or other great Qt-based > > music players like Tomahawk or Clementine, as their feature set is much > > bigger than this new music player should ever have. > > > > So if you are interested, contact me either in person on Akademy, on IRC > > (HorusHorrendus @ freenode) or via mail (stefan [at] derkits.at) > > > > Excellent idea, a no-nonsense "thing that opens audio files" is much > needed. > > Have you thought about picking up and taking over Amarok? A quick look at > the > commit log for the past few months suggests that it's essentially > unmaintained, so if it keeps this pace it's unlikely to stay the > swiss-knife > of music players as you suggest. > > This stuff is hard and time consuming so I think it makes sense to reuse > code. > > While Amarok does have a sizeable feature set, a good portion of those > features are either poorly designed, broken or outdated. Perhaps by taking > over as maintainer, yanking out all the cruft and taking UX hints from the > VDG > you could get a modern and pretty music player up and running more quickly > and > easily than jumping into the umpteenth "magic rewrite that will fix all > things > forever". You could cut down on the feature set significantly, and present > the > features that you don't remove in a much better way. > > Cheers, > -- > Teo Mrnjavac > http://teom.org | t...@kde.org > _______________________________________________ > Amarok-devel mailing list > Amarok-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel >
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