“Music Player” session at the GSoC Mentor Summit 2009
Thanks to Google’s everlasting generosity, mentors from all Open Source projects that participated to the Google Summer of Code 2009 have flocked en masse to Mountain View to meet up and talk about code and drink beer. More in pictures in my Bay Area Flickr set, if you’re curious.
Sessions were organised spontaneously around various topics, and one of which, proposed by Amarok2’s Lydia/nightrose, was “Problems Audio Players face today”. Which resulted in 15-20 people from various projects (incl. Amarok2, Rockbox, Maemo, XMMS2 & others) talking about solving problems encountered by all music player developers (e.g. lyrics and cover art fetching), as well as features on our beloved users’ wishlists (portable player support, tags, musicbrainz, etc).
And if you weren’t there, don’t despair, for I just (finally) posted minutes for this session on the GSoC wiki. Some interesting ideas in there, so go and have a look, and get to work!
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December 17, 2009 at 00:35
Hi there, I believe I was the guy sitting next to you who was interested and tags and other such things (from a personal interest as a DJ).
Recently I moved to OSX and have failed to find a music player that can manage 100k tracks without slowing to a crawl (tried iTunes and Songbird) and thought I’d investigate xmms2. I’ll start playing around with nycli and see what I think.
My frustration at no client being good enough got me to the stage of thinking about implementing my own, but you guys seem on to it and so it’d probably make sense to work with you then to implement yet another GUI client!