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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Yeah the problem you're seeing is backporting an app can sometimes be quite complicated - and a lot of people don't want to go through the effort of doing that for a device that is not used by many people anymore. The N8x0 is somewhat of a dying breed.

I personally just barely started using mine again because I prefer my own Pandora Radio client to the Android Pandora client on my G1. There is N8x0 instructions in my links in my sig. I noticed this and was going to ask about it. I am not a Pandora user but would LOVE to see something in either Maemo or Android for Playlist.com!

However, what you'll find is that I am not maintaining pianobar in the Diablo repo's simply because pianobar depends on libao which is not on Diablo. Meaning that I would also have to go find and grab libao and re-package that for diablo too. I did find a deb out there in a long-since forgotten repo that I link to for people to use.. and compiled specifically for diablo just to have it functional.. but I don't keep up with it.

So, while my python front-end works perfectly as-is on the N8x0 devices (I use it).. pianobar was a compiled app that does not. Unfortunately due the change in the processor from the N8x0 device to the N900, C++ and compiled apps are not simply portable from one to the other and require maintenance.. Thus.. it's less attractive for developers to be maintaining several builds from several platforms - especially old dying ones.
Even though the 2008 platform may be dying, I estimate that there are more 2008 OS users than n900 users currently. From a simple numbers perspective, doesn't it make sense to create apps that keep people using these "older" devices? FYI, I bought my n810 on ebay about a year ago. It replaced my Sony NX70V Palm OS AND my PSP which I only used for web and media.