Intone (0.20 - alpha release) Elementary based mplayer frontend

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Sun Apr 5 09:05:48 CEST 2009


On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 23:59:35 -0700 (PDT) c_c <cchandel at yahoo.com> said:

where's the source... luke? :)

> Hi,
>   Well, it took a lot longer than I thought - but finally  - here's the alpha
> release of Intone - a mplayer frontend (for audio files - as of now) in C.
> Uses about 2% CPU (max) while running - memory goes up depending on your
> playlist - on my phone (~2500 songs) it uses about 15%. All you need to do is
> download the attached ipk and install it. Intone depends on sqlite3 and
> libelementary. If you have elementary on your phone upgraded to a level where
> the elementary test application shows you a demo of sliders and genlists,
> Intone should run on your phone. The recommended way to organise music is to
> put all the files in a folder (lets say Music), with sub folders named after
> artists (say Music ->Eagles) and with sub sub folders holding albums (that
> becomes Music->Eagles->Hell Freezes Over->*.mp3). That way, Intone can
> correctly organise your music collection into albums. It automatically
> creates a default playlist containing all songs and individual playlists for
> each album. I have added features to manage playlists and albums - but there
> is always scope for improvement. Intone uses a sqlite database as a backend
> for the playlists and albums. That should, hopefully, give flexibility in
> adding more features later. Things that don't work as of now :-
> 
> 1. Feedback. - I haven't been able to add dialogs yet. So - wait a little
> while for Intone to finish long operations (like adding your music collection
> for the first time - my 2500 odd songs took about 6 secs - the button remains
> pressed too)
> 2. Dialogs for deleting stuff. It's safe - Intone does not delete any files -
> but it does delete tables(albums and playlists) - and it doesn't yet ask for
> confirmation.
> 3. Seek. Dont know how to use the slider for seeking. Any Ideas?
> 4. DBUS. - Haven't gotten around to learning edbus - so no occupy resouce CPU
> or pause on incoming calls yet. Will take some more time.
> 5. Album art and lyrics. - Don't yet know the best way to go about doing this
> other than downloading art from some retailers etc. Ideas welcome.
> 6. Toggle View. Not working yet. I intend having 2 more views - Album Art and
> Lyrics.
> 
>   I'm also looking at adding support for the button that the standard
> handsfree has - as a volume control (3 preselcted levels in rotation) or to
> go to next song (1 click) and prev song (2 clicks). Any suggestions?
> 
>   Since I also have half a podcast manager built (which I couldn't finish in
> time for the competition) - I'm also looking at adding that support in the
> future.
> 
>   Feedback Required
> 1. Bug reports.
> 2. Artwork - Ideas / png's / whatever
> 3. Elementary help. I have a lot of questions. Here are a few :-
>     a) How do I reduce the vert height of 1 entry in the genlist? Right now
> each line in the list is too high (almost 3 text lines high) - so I get only
> about 4 song names on the screen. Can I reduce the height to say 1.5 text
> line - 2 text line? b) How do I use the pager with a genlist? In my case the
> pager works - but it doesn't show the genlist - the buttons all show up
> though. c) Dialogs and progress bars. I know elementary doesn't have them -
> but can I make/have a simple ty solution for the time being?
> 
> Oh! And I'm only adding .oga, .mp3, .m4a and wma files into the albums. Any
> other types I need to add?
> 
> I'll upload the code to intone.googlecode.com soon. 
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> intone_0.20_arm.ipk 
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