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Thank you, I'll keep an eye out for the core app reqs. :-)

Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>Daniel,
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>On 04/03/2013 08:54 PM, Daniel Clem wrote:
>> Just a small feature request. I love streaming Jamendo CC music
>> using Rhythmbox and the Android app. Is there a way to integrate
>> Jamendo streaming into your player? Given the open nature of
>> Ubuntu, the creative commons music concept seems to fit nicely.
>
>Thanks for the idea. Certainly anything is possible. There's going to
>be a core set of requirements for the default app and I'm just not
>sure what they are quite yet. That will come out with the work that
>the design team is doing, so stay tuned. :)
>
>> 
>> Just an idea, if your interested I have ideas of how to search and 
>> manage the streams.
>> 
>> God Bless
>> 
>> Daniel Holm <d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds lovely!
>> 
>> I'm really looking forward to it.
>> 
>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely, Daniel Holm IT Consultant Web
>> Developer Student d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx http://www.danielholm.se
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>Regards,
>
>Jim
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>
>
>> 
>> Den ons  3 apr 2013 20:55:50 skrev Jim Hodapp:
>> 
>> Daniel,
>> 
>> Ok, it probably did get through but there's a lot of noise on the
>> list sometimes. :) So that's great! Right now I'm waiting on the
>> design team to come out with the preliminary music app design work.
>> It should be any day now. Once this is out, we can really start to
>> dive into the work of implementing the UI and making sure we have
>> what we need for supporting the app on the media backend side of
>> things.
>> 
>> I've CCed Calum Pringle on this email. Maybe he can comment on the 
>> status of this design work.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> On 04/03/2013 02:51 PM, Daniel Holm wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Unless my mail don't get through, I've said, twice, that I do want 
>> to contribute this project to become the default music application 
>> for Ubuntu Touch.
>> 
>> So, yes. Default music application. Sorry if I've been 
>> inarticulate.
>> 
>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely, Daniel Holm IT Consultant Web 
>> Developer Student d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx http://www.danielholm.se
>> 
>> Den ons 3 apr 2013 20:07:46 skrev Jim Hodapp: Daniel,
>> 
>> One thing I haven't seen you mention yet is if you want to do a 
>> separate community music app, or if you want to participate in the 
>> default music app that will ship with Ubuntu Touch?
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> On 04/03/2013 02:03 PM, Daniel Holm wrote:
>> 
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> I'm ready to get this project going again. Shall we have a 
>> meeting?
>> 
>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely, Daniel Holm IT Consultant Web
>> Developer Student d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx http://www.danielholm.se
>> 
>> Den mån 18 mar 2013 11:31:20 skrev Diego Sarmentero:
>> 
>> On 03/12/2013 01:36 PM, Daniel Holm wrote:
>> 
>> Awaiting link :) Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely, Daniel Holm IT
>> Consultant Web Developer Student d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx 
>> http://www.danielholm.se 2013-03-08 22:07, Diego Sarmentero skrev:
>> 
>> On 03/08/2013 04:08 PM, Zisu Andrei wrote:
>> 
>> Is there any way this could be moved after 4.30 ? I have classes
>> unitl 4.15. Zisu Andrei
>> 
>> 
>> Fine by me. 4:30 UTC it is.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8 March 2013 18:35, Diego Sarmentero 
>> <diego.sarmentero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:diego.sarmentero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 03/08/2013 02:23 PM, Daniel Holm wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Diego,
>> 
>> I think that's a great idea! When is a good time for you to have a
>> meeting? Set a time and those who can attend will?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe the meeting could be at 3pm UTC time this Tuesday (12th
>> March), we can meet at irc #ubuntu-touch to share the hangout link
>> and whoever is there and is interested can join.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers, Daniel
>> 
>> Den 8 mar 2013 13:31 skrev "Diego Sarmentero" 
>> <diego.sarmentero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:diego.sarmentero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
>> 
>> On 03/08/2013 08:57 AM, Daniel Holm wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> First, I do think we should move the discussion away from here, so
>> I'm off to the teams mail list from now on. I just sent out a mail,
>> which I pasted below.
>> 
>> Michael, I agree with you that we should probably be talking now
>> first hand and writing it down. See the mail below.
>> 
>> Zisu, agreed. Its better if we try to work together instead of 
>> having all these different projects. At least in the beginning.
>> Although I might say that I want a separated music and video 
>> player. But remote things sounds nice. Using mod this would be
>> easier.
>> 
>> And about Umedia, I'm thinking about reusing, almost porting, the 
>> whole thing for this project. But this is a discussion for the
>> team.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, I'm the one who did UMedia, so let me know and maybe i can
>> speed up things if we found another design that fits better for the
>> phone or something, because i already know the qml and c++ code of
>> that project, maybe we can arrange a kind-of-meeting via IRC or
>> hangout or something to talk about this and move forward.
>> 
>> Mail: Hi everyone and welcome,
>> 
>> I think we should start of my deciding what we want this
>> application to be. So I propose that everyone, who'd like, write
>> down what features they want, and then we discuss these features
>> and if we all agree with therm, create a blueprint and a goal.
>> 
>> Features for the first release is primary focus, but features for
>> later versions are welcome too, of course.
>> 
>> What I want the player to do: * play music tracks of a diverse
>> container from local device. * pause track, and use previous and
>> next track. * being able to shuffle * Scrabble tracks * use slider
>> to move quickly in the track * download and show album art
>> automatically. * use playlists,create and edit them. * sort by 
>> artist, album and track * sound menu for global management.
>> 
>> These are the features I could imagine for later on : * support for
>> upnp * for ampache * groveshark/spotify. * YouTube support *
>> lyrics
>> 
>> Please share your ideas and create a base of our development.
>> 
>> Cheers, Daniel
>> 
>> Den 8 mar 2013 11:27 skrev "Zisu Andrei" <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:matzipan@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>> 
>> Guys,
>> 
>> I'm really new to QML and am still figuring out a lot of stuff, so
>> my code is not beautiful..
>> 
>> May I say hold your horses until we find a suitable architecture 
>> for both the backend and the frontend? Mybalsamiq should probably
>> do it for both, and we can more easily follow discussions for each 
>> over there.
>> 
>> For the backend side of things, I quite like mpd side of things
>> rather than plugging in to the low-level gstreamer. We should
>> sketch out a structure for it.
>> 
>> For the front-end side of things, I think we should probably wait
>> for Canonical to publish their application and see where we can
>> take it from there, but we can definetely brainstrom until then.
>> 
>> I see some nice ideas regarding remote control. We should probably
>> think about integrating controlling something with the phone and
>> maybe having the phone plugged into the tv and allowing it to be
>> controller (maybe a bluetooth keyboard).
>> 
>> Also, we need to sort out the level of integration between the 
>> Music Player and the Video player. I would quite like to see a
>> very integrated manner. Maybe even have them as one: Player (like
>> VLC).
>> 
>> Akash, what do you mean by global control? I'm thinking the same
>> kind of global media buttons as in the sound indicator, is that
>> what you mean?
>> 
>> Someone asked a really interesting question regarding global 
>> control. The way Ubuntu currently doess it is through DBus,
>> displaying play/pause and next track in the Sound menu. However, it
>> seems like they have become more like settings controls in Ubuntu
>> Phone and I am not entirely sure how they will look in 14.04.
>> Maybe someone in Canonical can enlighten us on this issue? My
>> thought on this is, use the same pattern, as it goes nicely with
>> the other menus, like Messeging and the like.
>> 
>> 
>> Zisu Andrei
>> 
>> 
>> On 8 March 2013 08:43, Michael Zanetti 
>> <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thursday 07 March 2013 21:02:52 Daniel Holm wrote:
>> 
>> I set up a team on Launchpad:
>> 
>> https://launchpad.net/~touchmusicapp 
>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Etouchmusicapp>;
>> 
>> I'm not exactly sure what's the process for setting up such 
>> projects, but seems ok for me. I'll ask Michael Hall if its ok to
>> proceed with this.
>> 
>> I think there are some interesting ideas in this thread alread and
>> we should start writing them down somewhere to decide what we
>> want/need.
>> 
>> Also this thread is growing quite big and I agree that it would
>> make sense to move to a separate mailing list.
>> 
>> Br, Michael
>> 
>> 
>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely, Daniel Holm IT Consultant Web 
>> Developer Student d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> 
>> http://www.danielholm.se
>> 
>> 2013-03-07 18:41, Diego Sarmentero skrev:
>> 
>> On 03/07/2013 02:38 PM, Daniel Holm wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Diego,
>> 
>> You are very much welcome to join if you like.
>> 
>> I can see that you got pretty far(!) with
>> 
>> your UMedia. It looks good.
>> 
>> The thing that I'm most concerned about is
>> 
>> just moving along Ubuntu's
>> 
>> UI guidelines. But the rest looks pretty
>> 
>> much like the features and
>> 
>> all, that I'd like.
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, i agree the UI is not the best, i was
>> 
>> thinking to redo that part
>> 
>> also, i wasn't happy about the UI/UX
>> 
>> Would you like to help out?
>> 
>> 
>> Of course, where is the team to join?
>> 
>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> Daniel Holm IT Consultant Web Developer Student d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> http://www.danielholm.se
>> 
>> 2013-03-07 18:29, Diego Sarmentero skrev:
>> 
>> On 03/07/2013 02:22 PM, Sid Payton wrote:
>> 
>> Hey Michael, Are you working on a Xbmc remote for
>> 
>> Ubuntu Touch? That would be
>> 
>> great. Do you have a API to control XBMC?
>> 
>> If so could you pass me a
>> 
>> copy? Thanks.
>> 
>> Am 07.03.2013 11:28 schrieb "Michael Zanetti"
>> 
>> <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <
>> 
>> mailto:michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>> <mailto:michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>:
>> 
>> Hey Jouni,
>> 
>> Would be great to see those. I will most
>> 
>> likely port over
>> 
>> PlayMee too and could use some great design. Most likely
>> 
>> I can reuse most of it
>> 
>> for Xbmcremote too.
>> 
>> Cheers, Michael
>> 
>> On Thursday 07 March 2013 10:12:03 Jouni
>> 
>> Helminen wrote:
>> 
>> Hey guys,
>> 
>> We've done some nice new designs for a
>> 
>> core music app at
>> 
>> Canonical - we
>> 
>> could share these soon and see if it
>> 
>> makes sense to use them as a
>> 
>> starting point for the UI?
>> 
>> Thanks Jouni Helminen
>> 
>> Lead Designer Ubuntu Touch
>> 
>> On Thu Mar 7 02:32:52 2013, Akash wrote:
>> 
>> As far as global control of the app
>> 
>> goes, i think we could
>> 
>> place
>> 
>> something in the sound part of the
>> 
>> system services!
>> 
>> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013,
>> 
>> Veritatem Ignotam wrote:
>> 
>> I like where it's going. Good work!
>> 
>> If you decide to go the MPD
>> 
>> route, there's a small
>> 
>> daemon called
>> 
>> mpdscribble which can do the last.fm <http://last.fm> <
>> 
>> http://last.fm> <http://last.fm>
>> 
>> <
>> 
>> http://last.fm> reporting.
>> 
>> V.I.
>> 
>> On 03/06/2013 08:53 PM, 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=71d2604924
>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> bd
>> 
>> ad57493165cb4705b554
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://owncloud.danielholm.se/public.php?service=files&t=a057005a81
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 3
>> 
>> 33026810a708842deaed6
>> 
>> 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 <
>> 
>> mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto: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 <
>> 
>> mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto: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 <
>> 
>> mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto: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 <http://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
>> 
>> 
>> -- Adrenaline Junkie
>> 
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>> Hi, some time ago i started a project
>> 
>> intended to do a Music App to
>> 
>> run on the desktop and the phone: 
>> https://github.com/saruneko/UMedia
>> 
>> You can see some videos of the app working
>> 
>> here:
>> 
>> http://www.saruneko.org/umedia
>> 
>> I don't know if you were considering
>> 
>> something like that, i haven't
>> 
>> add some code to that lately because i was
>> 
>> busy with other stuff,
>> 
>> but let me know if that could be of any use.
>> 
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>> Sorry all, i was on vacation and i totally forgot :(
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