Comments on: Yet another music player

By: Flavio

Flavio — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:19:39 +0000

@zacH, thanks for the tip, I tried it. Yes, tons of nostalgia. Of course Amarok 1.x design shows its age. Since it is Qt4 I guess I’ll steal everything I can from their codebase :D

By: zacH

zacH — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:23:55 +0000

Hey, not to completely halt your project (har har), but I saw you were a big amarok classic fan. Do you know about Clementine?

http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/

It’s still a pretty new project, but it’s exactly what I was looking for in a player. You should check out a build from svn, it’s very stable and way more feature-filled than the current release. Hope it brings you some nostalgia, if nothing else… and good luck on Minitune!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:31:38 +0000

a YOUTUBE killer would be even better!

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:05:20 +0000

Hi,

Another idea was like develope a new P2P TV based Media Player,
mean like able to Broadcast own TV Channel to a Decentral network like Kad/DHT.
Users can watch avaible Channels or Broadcast yourself.

There are lots of music Player avaible doesnt understand why you want do again same project which do some lots of people.

http://qt-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=4220

By: Flavio

Flavio — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:13:58 +0000

Hi Brian, wow you’re quite in tune with what I am trying to do. Minitunes will surely feature a tagcloud of YOUR music collection generated with the Last.fm tags. In general Minitunes is going to rely heavily on the AudioScrobbler web services. I’ll check out Boffin more in detail. Thanks for the tip!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:35:55 +0000

Hey, Love you Minitube application and looking forward what you are gonna do with audio this time.
Maybe something interesting for you, I have used a music player that sounds like something in the direction you are going (or am I totally wrong here?) the application was called Boffin (http://www.last.fm/group/Audioscrobbler+Beta/forum/30705/_/510180) and what it did was use the free audioscrobbler.net API from Last.fm to index all local music and then only display the genre in the player. So with this piece of software you could select the genre or multiple genres and let it run. Seeing last.fm knows about almost every song and the community added the genres these are almost always perfect.

I really likes this because when listening to music i’m not constantly adding stuff to my playlist but normally am in a mood for a certain type of music.

Guess there are more services where tools can be created to index music based on genre like musicbrainz.org ?

Anyway.. just an idea :)

Love your work!

By: Flavio

Flavio — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:12:49 +0000

Sure Vadim, a music player does not fill any niche… I’m doing it for the best possible reason I can think for a Free Software app. Scratching my own itch. ;)

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:50:05 +0000

Haha, good luck! Personally I think what is needed is the hardware support, not the software side of the music players. Linux is, really, really full of all of the quality ones (and even my computer-illiterate mom can use one no probs).

Minitube filled a niche, this… not really. But it’s all for fun :)

By: Flavio

Flavio — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:46:36 +0000

Thanks for letting me know, Stephan. As for Songbird, I prefer not to comment :)

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:14:15 +0000

I understand you want sth simple as a music player. I´m using the opposite: Songbird – a mozilla-based itunes look-alike. Got attracted to it, mainly because of cover flow.

About minitube: It was reviewed very positive in german linux beginner´s magazine: Easylinux (number 04-2009)

http://www.easylinux.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2009/04

Cheers,Stephan