Dear Debian Multimedia maintainers, I have been working on a project together with a friends and other very cool and talented people on the web to write a free and full replacement of SonicStage [1] for Linux and other operating systems based on a portable library for HiMD and NetMD Walkman, written in Qt. Earlier releases of Debian (Etch IIRC) included a similar library called "libnetmd" to provide similar MiniDisc functionality on Linux but its support for the capabilities of the hardware were limited so the upstream development and eventually the package have been dropped since Debian Lenny.
We have started our project "linux-minidisc" in 2008 and have made very good progress and already support various MiniDisc (both NetMD and HiMD) Walkman and decks with completely free software components. Our project wiki can be found at [2]. It lists all the motivations and backgrounds of the software as well provides the source code in a git repository. Since we think that the software is very useful already for a large amount of users, I have recently seeking for a mentor to sponsor the appropriate Debian package "qhimdtransfer" [3], however without any luck in finding a sponsor. Someone on the mentors list recommended me to ask the Debian Multimedia team to join which I am officially doing with this mail now. So, if anyone here would be interesting in bringing full MiniDisc support to Debian, please get in contact with me so we can discuss the details. Thanks, Adrian [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonicStage [2] https://wiki.physik.fu-berlin.de/linux-minidisc [3] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qhimdtransfer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100625093807.gb14...@physik.fu-berlin.de
