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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Michael,

Do you have this code posted anywhere that I could take a look at? I
think it sounds like a good idea, I'd just like to get more a specific
idea of what you have today. Thanks for volunteering as well!

Regards,

Jim

On 03/04/2013 11:23 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> 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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