On Thursday 30 July 2015, Stefan Derkits wrote: > Hello Teo, > > On 2015-07-30 13:30, Teo Mrnjavac wrote: > > 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 features are either poorly designed, broken or outdated.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. > > thanks for your answer. > > I was definitly thinking about starting (actually I don't feel confident > enough to create the architecture) from an existing codebase, but > probably not from the Amarok codebase (except of reusing some parts). I > also talked with strohel at Akademy who has a better knowledge of the > codebase and his opinion was that UI & backendcode are too much > intertwined to allow replacing the UI easily. > > What I don't want to do is to take over Amarok. While it is true that > Amarok is pretty much unmaintained, I don't think a player that has > maybe only a third of the features should be called Amarok. > As long as it does the core functionality that users of Amarok uses (indexing and playing audio), and the Amarok team are on board, it shouldn't be a problem. It IS a large codebase however. Just remember while a simple audio player is simple to write, the hard part is the audio indexing and cataloging, and dealing with third party plugin for the popular internet audio products de jure.
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