Thread: [Canola] Canola2 Beta9: playing FLAC files
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2008-06-12 , 20:06
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Originally Posted by handful View Post
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
I am happy to be competition.
MediaBox is a real fun project for me, and I think developing in the OpenSource scene (where it's about fun and not money) is much more fun when having good competion (well, Canola is not really OpenSource, but it's a free and fun project for the INdT guys, too). In the end competition improves quality on both sides.
I think it would be real boring if there was only Canola, or only MediaBox.

Originally Posted by handful View Post
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.
I fully agree. That way the NITs can appeal to more people as media players.

Originally Posted by handful View Post
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 )))
Yup, pushing boundaries is fun!
I am amazed at how well Canola scrolls when considering they're scrolling with transparency and alpha blending.

Should we join efforts to work on a common media player? Well, IMHO (and Marcelo seems to think the same) this would not be the best option. Not every user prefers the same user interface. Some users like it simple and clean (the built-in media player), some users like eye candy (Canola), some users like building playlists (Kagu), some user like big cover art (UKMP), some users like their media to be accessible with just a few clicks (MediaBox), and some users don't even like a fancy GUI (mplayer, mpg123, etc.).
But nothing can be said against sharing code to avoid reinventing the wheel. Many media players on maemo are written in Python, which makes sharing easy.