On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:16:49 -0800, Pbox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point I was going to make, excatly. > > However there is one more thing to note. Linspire also releases their > code under GPL. So it is a give and take. > > Slimserver guys should take a note of the lsongs application. > > http://mp3beamer.com/ss_lsongs-syncing.html > > This would make a pretty nice itunes replacement, and could be easily > bundled with slimserver. Even if the porting needs to get done onto > Windows and OSX we are still talking about getting a gigantic bunch of > work for free.
What does it use for its audio backend? This sounds crazy - but other than mplayer (only for ripping DVD audio, which I probably could do with gstreamer if I was willing to play with the pipes) I personally (note the personally) refuse to use any multimedia app for playing that does not use a gstreamer backend. OK, sox is another exception. The reason is because I think in many ways, LotD (my passion) is too fragmented - there's mplayer, xine, gstreamer, and apps that use their own. I think gstreamer is technically the best, and if focus is put there - we can get better apps. slimserver is different, I don't expect them to use gstreamer because perl bindings don't exist yet (and python bindings are still fairly new), and slimserver is expected to run on a host of operating systems - some of which either do not have gstreamer or have it but use a different multimedia backend. I guess what I'm saying - I would rather see an app like Rhythmbox and AmoroK get that functionallity than see a new app - yet another jukebox player ... if it uses gstreamer, then I'm all for it. GStreamer is nice because you add a plugin (which can be closed, it's libraries are lgpl) and lots of apps now have support for the new codec - that's the way it should be. But I guess I'm going off topic a wee bit. -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
