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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

great to see you're motivated. However, I'm not sure if the taken approach is 
really taking us somewhere for different reasons:

You started off with a QML file without thinking on how the actual player should 
work, which features do you want to support, and how this will be hooked up to 
a backend. Most likely you end up rewriting the whole code when you realize 
this doesn't fit with the backend you choose. Also, your code does not scale 
with different screen sizes or form factors.

When Jim Hodapp and I replied to some of your original music app emails, we 
never heard back from you. Are you interested in working with the people 
inside of Canonical on the music app that will ship with Ubuntu Touch by 
default, or do you rather want to experiment and come up with your own thing? 
Note that both is fine for us, but if you want to contribute to the default 
music app, then we've got to work together.

It'd be great if you could let us know how you see this efforts evolving over 
time.

Br,
Michael


On Thursday 07 March 2013 02:53:21 Daniel Holm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lovely!
> 
> The code is up, and its quite simple - though it doesn't really do what
> I want it to yet..
> 
> I'm studying at the University of Gothenburg full time, and this app is
> kind of my free time project between books and papers to hand in, so I
> haven't had the time to submit any images - until now:
> 
> http://owncloud.danielholm.se/public.php?service=files&t=71d2604924bdad57493
> 165cb4705b554
> http://owncloud.danielholm.se/public.php?service=files&t=a057005a8133302681
> 0a708842deaed6
> 
> The huge icon is just a place holder for a album cover.
> 
> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>    Daniel Holm
>    IT Consultant
>    Web Developer
>    Student
>    d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
>    http://www.danielholm.se
> 
> 2013-03-07 01:43, Akash skrev:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I would love to start contributing on the music app too!
> > 
> > But i'm just wondering, before diving into actually coding, don't you
> > want to design the UI and get an idea from the community if it follows
> > the guidelines or not? Yes we could all download the code and try
> > running it ourselves to see the UI but i'm just wondering because its
> > going to be easier to put pictures of the app design :)
> > 
> > On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, Daniel Holm wrote:
> >     Hi again,
> >     
> >     I've started on the UI and just done some small stuff. I created
> >     this in like two hours. I'm still figuring out a lot of things
> >     since I've never coded an app and usually code web.
> >     But it's a lot of fun, so we'll see where it takes.
> >     
> >     And perhaps it's better to use mpd, which was said earlier. We'll
> >     have to code a cover downloader, srcobble support and more, though.
> >     
> >     Anyways, here is my repo: https://launchpad.net/musicapp
> >     
> >     Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
> >     
> >      Daniel Holm
> >      IT Consultant
> >      Web Developer
> >      Student
> >     
> >     d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
> >     http://www.danielholm.se
> >     
> >     Den mån  4 mar 2013 23:39:04 skrev Daniel Holm:
> >         Hi again,
> >         
> >         I've started to code on this application now. I don't know if
> >         I should
> >         set up a separate project on Launchpad, or what?
> >         It's just a little piece of the UI, but hey - it's a start ;)
> >         
> >         I'd like some pointers since this is my first application.
> >         
> >         Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
> >         
> >          Daniel Holm
> >          IT Consultant
> >          Web Developer
> >          Student
> >         
> >         d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
> >         http://www.danielholm.se
> >         
> >         Den mån  4 mar 2013 20:13:11 skrev Daniel Holm:
> >             Hi again,
> >             
> >             What a response! Wonderful!
> >             
> >             I was thinking of Rhythmbox since its bundled with Ubuntu
> >             as default.
> >             And you'll have the same playlists, settings for eg.
> >             Last.fm and such
> >             things.
> >             
> >             I'd love to see this becoming the default music app in
> >             Ubuntu Touch,
> >             and I'd gladly share the work with anyone wanting to join.
> >             
> >             I'll try to create a UI demo in Qt Creator later this
> >             week, so I can
> >             show you how I imagine it. Also I'd happily join the meeting.
> >             
> >             Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
> >             
> >              Daniel Holm
> >              IT Consultant
> >              Web Developer
> >              Student
> >             
> >             d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
> >             http://www.danielholm.se
> >             
> >             Den mån  4 mar 2013 19:50:38 skrev Veritatem Ignotam:
> >                 What about using MPD as a backend? May be less
> >                 resource intensive as a
> >                 backend, shouldn't have a problem compiling as is, and
> >                 possibly
> >                 simpler to build your interface from scratch on top of
> >                 MPD instead of
> >                 trying to work with rhythmbox's.
> >                 
> >                 V.I.
> >                 
> >                 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?