Thread: Yaspot (spotify client)
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Joorin is offline Joorin
2010-06-20 , 12:32
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#188
Originally Posted by dragly View Post
... and qtspotify.

With so many developers working on different Spotify clients, and considering that a few now appear to have been abandoned, maybe it could be a good idea to create a Maemo-Spotify team? It seems like a waste to redo everything for each client, rather than working together on a supported and stable one.
As far as I know, new solutions most often appear when someone isn't satisfied with what is available. That was the case for me.

It's a fun hack too, and not only because people seem to want a better client.

I think competition is healthy in terms of choice, but having 5 clients doing (or partially doing) the same thing seems a bit of an overkill to me

Maybe one of you who are working actively on one of the clients could initiate such a team/project?
Such a team might be a very good idea if there was a good way to find the parts to take from the different clients and stitch together into something new. Add to this that libdespoify and libopenspotify work differently in some ways which would make it necessary to pick one of the two.

On top of this, you need to decide on what kind of client to aim for. I like minimalism, with small binaries that are fast and good at what they do. Saying that I'm "anti bling" might be too harsh but it's pretty close to the truth and it's the reason footify looks like it does. I would have a hard time compromising performance and maintainability for animations or "fancy looking" widgets.