Hi Vaiodon!

Thanks for the feedback on FLAC. We are happy that there's competition and we are even more happier to see that our effort to promote python end up with a great application like mediabox, and even better it's one man's fight, so it's really standing out at least in the point we've defended it so hard: productivity

About the improvements, we are improving as much as we can each time, and the priorities are set on request numbers. As you may already know the forum is the biggest " published" door to requests, but the site's contact and feedback form generates the biggest number of complaints, bugs, etc. While it's really bad as 30-45% of people there don't place their email (killing further conversation / debugging) it's also true that I get actually a lot of request also there, that helps me in "ranking" requests.

Please, I am not placing FLAC or anyother non-mainstream format below the main stream ones, I'm not judging anyone's choice of codecs enconding... BUT:

FLAC is a really "special" way to store music, used by a really small percentage of our whole user base. So this is the biggest "multiplier" when ranking. While we would like to bring back DAAP support (one of our guys was responsible for the port of Dmap library that gives support to maemo to use DAAP shares) we do have the problem of resources now to do that, as we have only here in our small office 12 projects demanding full attention :/ (not justifying, it's just our habit of playing a clear game).

SO... We will keep improving it, unfortunately... slower than what we would like. Even being so I have already started a couple of university cooperation projects where some students will get scholarship to learn to develop for Maemo / Python etc, and as the first training is Maemo platform I think dmap is also a great thing to do with them. Of course it will take a little bit more than one of our experienced maemo devs would, but he will be able to code review and make sure the quality is nice.

In the end, at least one thing makes me happy: maemo still have choices to solve your problem (grimme's work) and I think he's really doing a great work to a lot of complaints about canola. So it's nice to see that we don't " agree " in several points, and thus we have solutions that really fits MORE people than if we were mere copies of each others. He places "select spot" on items, he scrolls the list on white solid background, he scroll a smaller area (thumbnails) all of this create a really faster and better scrolling effect for example than we have today but we are more experimenting, pushing boundaries, and sometimes (I admitted that here quite a few times) we push too much )))

Anyways... I will contact you later to hear more about your use case. This is even more important, once I understand and describe it, I can reproduce it with the new guys, and try to figure out what is the best strategy to improve it

Marcelo