ok, enough about bug systems and other controversial stuff ;) today i was thinking about kscd. it has a number of bugs in it and i'm theoretically the maintainer of it, at least the UI bits. the CDDB stuff is libkcddb, workman is ostensibly someone else's baby ...
there are some real issues with kscd today: it's got some options that i'm not even sure are really required, the lcd display isn't layout based ... do we even need or want an lcd type display? hummm...
sadly, i really don't have time to give a kde cd player the love it needs going into kde4. in my dreams someone would either say:
a) "let's just make this other kde app also responsible for playing CDs" much like other platforms have rolled cd playing into their "basic media player"
or
b) "here's a kick ass (e.g. small, performant, beautiful works everywhere) cd player app for kde4"
anyone? =)
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Actually this does appeal to me. But is KDE4 ready enough if I wanted to start this weekend?
It appeals to me because I love making small, simple, functional, pretty and awesome applications :-) And also it would mean I could more readily offer people a solution for amaroK not really playing CDs.
I think the media players need an easy-to-use possibility to play Audio CDs without audiocd:/ (which is great, but always has to copy the tracks before playing them).
Could playing Audio CD tracks maybe be incorporated into the new multimedia framework? Actually I like the Winamp way of playing Audio CDs most (where CD tracks are just playlist items like any other ones, but are played directly from the CD).
If done right, amaroK or Noatun don't even need to know if they are playing CDs or Ogg Vorbises, just like it is already the case with the current ioslaves.
Option a) sounds better, because it would be easier from a user's perspective to have a single interface that plays all types of music.
And why not also integrate Kmid into a general-purpose media player? After all, Windows Media Player, Realplayer, and Quicktime have always been able to play midi files.
"max howell said...
It appeals to me because I love making small, simple, functional, pretty and awesome applications"
Call me crazy, call me whacky but that sounds like perfect work for a plasma applet.
My opinion is that KsCD is perfect already - maybe there are a few too many functions. I mean CDDB, Artist Info etc are a little unnecessary.
What could be done for KDE4 is just lump together all the different programs that play music into one big program that player audio of all sorts. It could play CDs, play MIDI, play files, manage playlists, and maybe even rip cds. Just a thought.
I skim a lot of blogs, and so far yours is in the Top 3 of my list of favorites. I'm going to dive in and try my hand at it, so wish me luck.
It'll be in a totally different area than yours (mine is about mens male enhancement reviews) I know, it sounds strange, but it's like anything, once you learn more about it, it's pretty cool. It's mostly about mens male enhancement reviews related articles and subjects.
I stopped using CDs after I bought my first "CD" which was not a CD at all but a crappy pretend-to-be-CD with "copy protection". It made my CD-Rom fail and I had to open it to get the CD out.
I would rather see kaffeine for KDE4 than to have kscd exist at all, it supports playing CDs as well as most other things. It is, sadly, only available for KDE3 as of now.
kaffeine is imho way better than all the other various multimedia things in KDE put together.
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