[haiku-development] Re: Some useful haiku projects

  • From: Alex Suraci <i.am@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:08:25 -0500

As it is, the current MediaPlayer seems ideal for opening up the odd
media file (which is fine; I wouldn't want an MP3 someone sends me to
open up with what I use to manage my entire library and interrupt what
is currently playing), not for managing and maintaining a persistent
library. In that sense, I would expect the following of a media
library application:

1. A more modern and native-looking user interface; along the lines of
Sonata in terms of UI elements.
(http://sonata.berlios.de/screenshots.html)
2. Shuffle/repeat controls, enqueuing, maintaining multiple playlists.
3. Some form of a music library, possibly with folder that it monitors
for new content.

MediaPlayer doesn't seem to work at all for maintaining one big
playlist to emulate a library; every attempt I have made at dragging
my entire Music folder into the playlist has led it to lock up (or
maybe it's just taking too long).

In Linux, I use MPD which maintains my entire library with a source
directory where it can update the contents of the library from
(usually with "mpc update", but ideally this would be automatic). With
that, I have a primary playlist which I fill with my entire library
and usually leave on shuffle. I use multiple clients to control mpd;
currently ncmpcpp (a terminal UI), and I have mpc mapped for some
global multimedia hotkeys (e.g. Right Ctrl + Home "mpc pause"). Sonata
is also an MPD client. This setup works very well, and I think a sort
of multimedia kit that acts like MPD could work very well on Haiku.


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:57 PM, David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/11/3 Alex Suraci <i.am@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I was talking about improving the default media player itself.
>>
>> As am I. Just with a different method - replacing it. Coming to Haiku
>> from any other OS, the default media player is extremely dated and
>> primitive. A default media player should be much better than that in
>> 2009. There isn't much point in sticking so close to how these
>> applications were on BeOS; operating systems and software in general
>> have gone very far since then.
>
> What do you feel is missing in the MediaPlayer?
>
> --
> Cheers
> David
>
>



-- 
Alex

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