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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Michael,

Excellent! Thanks for sharing this. I'll get back to you on things and
maybe towards the end of this week or beginning of next week we can
kick off a meeting to talk more about the music player specifically.

Jim

On 03/04/2013 11:42 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> Hey Jim,
> 
> It's in the link I included in the previous mail: 
> http://notyetthere.org/?page_id=25
> 
> You can see some N9 screenshots and have a link to the source
> code.
> 
> Please keep in mind that this is by no means finished or polished.
> However its good enough that I use it as my daily music player for
> a whole year now.
> 
> Cheers, Michael
> 
> 
> On Monday 04 March 2013 11:26:15 Jim Hodapp wrote: 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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