[maemo-developers] What's wrong with folder browsing?

[From: Laurent GUERBY]

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:45 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:25:04PM +0200, ext Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > Folder approach is intuitive, shared by all reasonable apps on all
> > platforms
> 
> Except for more or less every media player ever made (cf. iTunes).

Amarok is frequently cited as a free software iTunes equivalent and it
works *exactly* as I describe: if you want it to index you can choose
what folder(s) to index, if you don't want to index you just use "open"
and it works just like any UI standard conforming software.

Intuitive, reactive and powerful.

It's quite easy to find people complaining about iTunes being
a ressource hog and taking forever to scan stuff.

However biased it is, google "itunes amarok".

And I still can't honestly believe that the developpers of media
software want to tell their user: oh you have a 2GB card fully
of media and you want to play it on your N800? No problem! Insert
it then .... please wait two hours ... and no sorry you can't use your
N800 because it's dog slow ... then there you go! How great and easy!

Spot the problem.

Laurent