Banshee
Participants
JeffWaugh (iPod data donation)
Topics Covered
The random list of excellence covered at the Banshee session at the 2006 Summit.
- Discussed the configuration UI for the new multimedia profile support. There was a good consensus that the interface here was simple enough and exposes the required functionality necessary to adjust profile variables (quality metrics, for example).
- Would like to discuss the configuration and implementation of the profile support for inclusion in the GNOME platform in the future.
- Gabriel brought up the idea of previewing the settings, eg playing one of your tracks and applying the settings to it in real time
- Mentioned that in early 2007, we'll start investigating a port to Windows and then OS X. Most pieces of Banshee should be either relatively easy to port or can be easily disabled in an initial port to just get the core running.
- Discussion about new browsing and organization interfaces.
- I would like to use tiles, which would pull in lots of contextual data from the core and from web services (last.fm, musicbrainz)
Look into clutter for crazy sexy UI
- Lots of talk on the utility and design of the play queue to come. This blocks on needing a playback model (what to play next, random, linear backwards history, etc.).
- We do not want to change the existing double-click to play behavior
To append the queue, you can drag and drop, right click->append, or hold the mouse down on a selection for a delay, emulating interfaces/behavior available on digital audio players
- We need to find some good internet radio sources, but the consensus was that internet radio itself is really going away or is/can be replaced effectively for the most part by podcasts and last.fm streams
- There are NPR radio streams from local stations, but only Real and WM streams from npr.org
- Mike Urbanski demoed his sweet podcasting work, and discussed some internal changes to the download core
- Download core will be made a first-class object in Banshee.Base
Moving to WebClient, but there's some followup needed to bring full 2.0 support into Mono
- Look into not showing notifications on track change when Banshee has focus
- See if notifications can be canceled, so if changing tracks quickly, notifications don't stack up (though this is not needed if we don't show them when the user changes songs manually..)
