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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm in. I already wrote my own Music player for the N9 [1] because the 
integrated one didn't satisfy my needs (and was closed source so I couldn't 
contribute in fixing them). I would be happy if we could reuse some bits and 
pieces, and if its only ideas or learnings on what not to do.

Its pure Qt but features a plugin-like interface for sources. There are 
currently 2 sources implemented: a simple file system browser and one that uses 
the QDocumentGallery (which represented the internal's player database on 
MeeGo). However, the interface has been made keeping in mind that it should be 
able to support other sources too (like, spotify, radio stations etc). I think 
it should be quite straight forward to implement a source which represents 
data from qtubuntu-media.

If you guys are interested, I will start porting the existing code to use the 
Ubuntu.Components instead of the MeeGo ones. How does that sound?

Cheers,
Michael

[1] http://notyetthere.org/?page_id=25

On Monday 04 March 2013 10:44:04 Jim Hodapp wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> I would be greatly interested in collaborating with you on this if you
> are interested. Are you trying to create a music player, or the music
> player that ships with Ubuntu Touch by default? If you want to produce
> the default app, let's collaborate since I'm tasked with helping lead
> that implementation effort within Canonical.
> 
> If you simply want to create a music app, I'd recommend checking out
> the current media player lp:mediaplayer-app as well as
> lp:qtubuntu-media to see how it utilizes the backend that I wrote.
> There's still big plans for future enhancements to this, and I'd
> welcome community interest and help. Please feel free to ask me any
> questions about what currently exists, and I can lend you a hand if
> you require it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 03/04/2013 10:36 AM, Daniel Holm wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm thinking about creating a music application. I'm in an early
> > stage of learning to code for QML to begin with, but I have some
> > concerns for the future.
> > 
> > I'm thinking about creating an application that really uses
> > Rhythmbox as an backend, but using $ rhythmbox-client. Since its
> > Ubuntus default music player, I mean. So just a easy UI with
> > buttons for previous, next track, play/pause, stop, playlist and so
> > on. Press a button and a flag to rhythmbox-client is sent.
> > 
> > What are you guys' thoughts on this? Is it possible to have
> > rhythmbox running in the background instead of writing a completely
> > new music player?
> 
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