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[Victor Thompson <victor.thompson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Calum,

I'm currently working on a prototype music player. My current project
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-music-app> currently behaves as more akin
to a glorified filemanager at the moment--but, I'd love to work with the
design team once we have more components ready to make any quality music
app viable. Again, my app is a prototype. It's beautiful only in it's
simplicity.

There's some "synergy" that might be possible between such a Music app
and the filemanager. They both need more file/media metadata and they
both would benefit from Ubuntu One (u1) integration (file and music
APIs). I've emailed briefly with Stuart (~sil, cc'd), who works on the
u1 team. These are the things currently on the table, in loose order:

1. The u1 team is going to start working on a "qml-u1" plugin of sorts,
with potentially both the "file" and "music" APIs built in. The
following are small sub questions, but the u1 team is handling the details:
    a. QtDBus with Qt5 QML bindings? Would it be best to wait for
development on Raring for this?
    b. Does Ubuntu Online Accounts (accounts-qml-module?) seem
beneficial on touch for u1? Would it simplify things?
2. I want to work with the "ubuntu-filemanager-app" group to get more
metadata into our models that access files. This would allow for more
advanced filemanager capabilities, but it would also be useful in
building a Music app library (LocalStorage of music metadata and
playlists) for music browsing.
3. Work with the ubuntu-sdk team to further proper Sound Menu
development and integration
    a. Is QtDBus needed here as well?
    b. How would components such as DLNA, bluetooth, and control from
the Sound Menu be handled?
    c. I could start mixing in Sound Menu integration into the
prototype, if that made sense.
4. Last, but certainly not least, the design of a music app. This may
not be *the* default music app. But something simplistic in design, yet
'featureful' would be where I'd want it to go.

Vic

On 03/19/2013 12:19 PM, Calum K Pringle wrote:
> Hi all, 
>
> It's great to see everyone so interested in the music app already! We
> really want to get to the design work soon, but as you've seen, we are
> busy with the clock, weather, calculator and calendar right now!
>
> The music app is indeed of great importance to us all, what would a
> phone be without music playback!? We intend to follow the same process
> as we have with the other apps; so if you are interested in the music
> player app, here's where to look!
>
>   * Email the core apps mailing list here
>     <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-touch-coreapps> using
>     [Design][App_name] in the subject line
>   * Follow our blog  <http://design.canonical.com/>
>   * Follow Ubuntu app developers on Google plus
>     <https://plus.google.com/111697084657487423167/posts>
>
>
> For reference, handy people to speak with are:
>
> Jim Hodapp (@jhodapp) is the Canonical Tech lead, Mika Meskanen
> (@mesq) Christina Li (@Christina) and myself (@ckpringle) are the UX
> go to guys, and Michal Izydorczyk (@mehow) for visual design. We'll be
> hanging out here and on the Ubuntu-touch IRC channel
> <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-touch> as usual.
>
> Speak soon,
>
> Calum, Mika, Christina and Michal.
>
>
> On 19 Mar 2013, at 01:10, ?????e;t, s(.i"'n^?? ???????? wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Media Apps are having DLNA support, or on lines of like Samsung
>> Allshare... Wireless display streaming.
>>
>> Regards
>> Jskandhari
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:28:36 +0000
>> From: mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Why is there not
>> a Browser or music app in the core app?
>>
>> Just to clarify, the browser is already included in the Touch Preview
>> image, and it's being worked on. 
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mika
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 March 2013 16:03, Shane Guignard <shaneguignard@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:shaneguignard@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello Everyone, 
>>
>>     I was curious to know why we are not trying to create a Ubuntu
>>     browser? 
>>     I have some ideas but want to know it there was a reasoning that
>>     it was not included. 
>>
>>     Second thing, 
>>     Music player, seen it in the Developer preview but it was
>>     essentially an image with no functionality. 
>>     I am wondering why this is not included in the Core Apps either?
>>     A good music player is an essential part of a smart phone. I have
>>     some great ideas for this as well and I am sad that it wasn't
>>     included in the Core Apps. 
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Shane Guignard
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