I am fascinated by Playdar's idea and was wondering what is the current situation of the project, i.e. how active (dead) is it and what are the future plans for it?
I'd be possibly willing to get involved with the development in te future. I am an Erlang programmer so I guess I could help out with the playdar-core code? Is there any kind of an organizational structure that you have?
Tomahawk implements the Playdar protocol and quite a few of the original Playdar developers work on it. (Someone should probably update the Playdar site to mention that.)
Cheers,
Russ
On 7 April 2012 11:13, Ignas Vyšniauskas <baliu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am fascinated by Playdar's idea and was wondering what is the current > situation of the project, i.e. how active (dead) is it and what are the > future plans for it?
> I'd be possibly willing to get involved with the development in te > future. I am an Erlang programmer so I guess I could help out with the > playdar-core code? Is there any kind of an organizational structure that > you have?
> Best wishes, > Ignas
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> Tomahawk implements the Playdar protocol and quite a few of the > original Playdar developers work on it. (Someone should probably > update the Playdar site to mention that.)
That is unfortunate. I don't actually believe in Tomahawk, the problem is that it's trying to do too much. I want something headless (i.e. fully functional without a GUI) and lightweight like Playdar that I could easily run on several machines. That would allow to maintain good modularity and build amazing players on top of that kind of an infrastructure. I am thinking of something like mpd, but distributed. Tomahawk's slogan is "the social media player". I don't care about social-ness. That can be built on top of a good infrastructure too. I care about ease of setup and access. Therefore I think Playdar is different and is based on a better, more fundamental idea.
Anyway, that's just my opinion. Thanks for the reply :-)
> > Tomahawk implements the Playdar protocol and quite a few of the > > original Playdar developers work on it. (Someone should probably > > update the Playdar site to mention that.)
> That is unfortunate. I don't actually believe in Tomahawk, the problem > is that it's trying to do too much. I want something headless (i.e. > fully functional without a GUI) and lightweight like Playdar that I > could easily run on several machines. That would allow to maintain good > modularity and build amazing players on top of that kind of an > infrastructure. I am thinking of something like mpd, but distributed. > Tomahawk's slogan is "the social media player". I don't care about > social-ness. That can be built on top of a good infrastructure too. I > care about ease of setup and access. Therefore I think Playdar is > different and is based on a better, more fundamental idea.
> Anyway, that's just my opinion. Thanks for the reply :-)
> Ignas
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On Saturday, April 7, 2012 4:35:30 PM UTC+2, Ignas Vyšniauskas wrote:
> I want something headless (i.e.
> fully functional without a GUI) and lightweight like Playdar that I
> could easily run on several machines. That would allow to maintain good
> modularity and build amazing players on top of that kind of an
> infrastructure. I am thinking of something like mpd, but distributed.
I am of the same opinion and think the best idea would be to build on mpd, since there is nothing better concerning basic media player capabilities. KISS. Try gmpc, it does very basic things but everything it does works flawlessly.
And it’s very actively maintained (bug reports are getting answered in less than two days).
I intend to support the project when I find the time, expanding in this direction (xpsf support etc.).
