Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: deejayd Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Mickaël Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/projects/deejayd/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : A media player daemon Deejayd is a multi purpose media player that can be completely controlled through the network using XML messages. It suppports playlists, searching, many media tags. It can playback many music and video formats using either its xine (recommended) or its gstreamer backend. Preliminary packaging may be browsed in the upstream VCS viewer[0]. Built packages work well, are lintian and linda clean, and build in a clean pbuilder chroot. I plan to search for a sponsor once we sort some internal bug and some packaging issues (remove debian/* from upstream tarball[1] as DDs mostly seem to prefer that). Reporting any issue (on the packaging or on the sofware) is very welcome, especially because this is my first debian package. [0] http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/projects/deejayd/browser [1] http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/archives/deejayd/deejayd-0.6.2.tar.gz -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
Hi, > > Description : A media player daemon > > Nitpick: just "media player daemon" is fine; the preference these days > seems to be not using the indefinite article. Or possibly "network media > player daemon" would be better. Noted. Thanks. > > Deejayd is a multi purpose media player that can be completely controlled > > through the network using XML messages. > > It suppports playlists, searching, many media tags. It can playback many > > music and video formats using either its xine (recommended) or its gstreamer > > backend. > > Does it support queuing? What I mean by that (and "queuing" may not be > the correct term), is that I want to select some songs from the library > and add them to the playlist and as they are played, they are removed > from the playlist. Definitely, I use it all the time. It is implemented as a special playlist. > Does it support random play? Not shuffling the playlist, but if the > playlist is empty, just select a random song from the library. If I > select some songs from the library, it should play those, and then, when > the playlist is again empty, go back to random selections. It does both random through the playlist and shuffling a playlist, but does not (and I would say 'yet' because I need this) does random on the library. As a workaround, I find myself adding nearly all my songs to a playlist. > If not, do you have any idea if upstream would be amenable to > such features? Obviously, they'd have final say over a particular > implementation. They certainly would as I'm involved quite a bit in upstream work. Cheers, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
Quoting Alexandre Rossi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: deejayd > Version : 0.6.2 > Upstream Author : Mickaël Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/projects/deejayd/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: Python > Description : A media player daemon I suggest "media player daemon" or "media playing daemon"...but anyway drop the leading article (DevRef 6.2.2) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
On 04-Feb-08, 06:45 (CST), Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Description : A media player daemon Nitpick: just "media player daemon" is fine; the preference these days seems to be not using the indefinite article. Or possibly "network media player daemon" would be better. > Deejayd is a multi purpose media player that can be completely controlled > through the network using XML messages. > It suppports playlists, searching, many media tags. It can playback many > music and video formats using either its xine (recommended) or its gstreamer > backend. Does it support queuing? What I mean by that (and "queuing" may not be the correct term), is that I want to select some songs from the library and add them to the playlist and as they are played, they are removed from the playlist. Does it support random play? Not shuffling the playlist, but if the playlist is empty, just select a random song from the library. If I select some songs from the library, it should play those, and then, when the playlist is again empty, go back to random selections. If not, do you have any idea if upstream would be amenable to such features? Obviously, they'd have final say over a particular implementation. Thanks, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 14:22, William Pitcock wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 18:08 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: >> Quoting Alexandre Rossi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>> Package: wnpp >>> Severity: wishlist >>> Owner: Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >>> * Package name: deejayd >>> Version : 0.6.2 >>> Upstream Author : Mickaël Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> * URL : http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/projects/deejayd/ >>> * License : GPL >>> Programming Lang: Python >>> Description : A media player daemon >> I suggest "media player daemon" or "media playing daemon"...but anyway >> drop the leading article (DevRef 6.2.2) >> >> > > "media player daemon" may be confusing with mpd. "daemon which plays > media in the background" may be better. More importantly: what is the benefit of deejayd over any other media player? *That* would be useful info for the Full Description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHp4OUS9HxQb37XmcRAv8zAKCQ/3WxrBFAvVF1zExqh7cgFT5w6gCfdadV 2ACbdREHqSecmeG7MzIyR+I= =UNoq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> I suggest "media player daemon" or "media playing daemon"...but anyway > >> drop the leading article (DevRef 6.2.2) > >> > >> > > > > "media player daemon" may be confusing with mpd. "daemon which plays > > media in the background" may be better. > > More importantly: what is the benefit of deejayd over any other > media player? *That* would be useful info for the Full Description. Yes. Apparently what's special about this is that it can be controlled over the network. Probably not the only one but noticeable enough to be mentioned in a short description. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 18:08 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Alexandre Rossi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: deejayd > > Version : 0.6.2 > > Upstream Author : Mickaël Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/projects/deejayd/ > > * License : GPL > > Programming Lang: Python > > Description : A media player daemon > > I suggest "media player daemon" or "media playing daemon"...but anyway > drop the leading article (DevRef 6.2.2) > > "media player daemon" may be confusing with mpd. "daemon which plays media in the background" may be better. William signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
On 04/02/2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > Yes. Apparently what's special about this is that it can be > controlled over the network. Probably not the only one but > noticeable enough to be mentioned in a short description. mpd also supports that (tcp/6600). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpz07eBmB2Z2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
> > Yes. Apparently what's special about this is that it can be > > controlled over the network. Probably not the only one but > > noticeable enough to be mentioned in a short description. > > mpd also supports that (tcp/6600). Yep this project is very similar to mpd. As far as I know, it improves over mpd with the following features : - play queue - video support (this is also an advantage over XMMS2 but I do not know this project well enough to do a full comparison) - xine or gstreamer backend (i.e. more supported media formats, well tested media backends) - more easily extensible protocol because of XML and easier to extend because of Python - asynchronous notifications other the network (you can subscribe to song changes, etc, XMMS2 also has this) - webradios dedicated mode - integrated web interface It has the following drawbacks compared to mpd : - uses more memory and perhaps more CPU time (because written in Python vs optimized C) but it keeps reasonable, you'll see if you give it a try. - no ReplayGain support (this is a planned feature). - younger project thus less stable, less tested although the codebase is not very large (we use everything we can reuse) and we've got quite a big test suite. - no Zeroconf support. - only 3 clients (cmdline, web, maemo platform) and GUIs still have rough edges. This is a summary of what I know. I think all those projects are complementary. deejayd does not have (yet?) unique features, but it is a unique combination of features. Also of interest, there is a page that explains why we started the project. http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/projects/deejayd/wiki/Why/ Should all this fit in the package description? Thanks, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon
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