[maemo-developers] music player with .lrc support !

[From: Stefan Kost]

Simon Pickering wrote:
>  
>   
>> Personally, I think it's too small for a 3 month project, though.
>> However getting LRC parsing into gstreamer or MAFW for use by 
>> the Nokia media player would be a fine challenge for three 
>> months, IMHO.
>>     
>
> This certainly sounds useful.
>   

If LRC is this http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_%28Dateiformat%29
one could indeed write a new UI on top of MAFW. Play the songs and check
the duration from time-to-time to update the lyrics.

Stefan

>   
>> But since the Nokia media player is closed source, it would 
>> be kinda hard to make it display lyrics. An alternative would 
>>     
>
> Wasn't the whole idea of MAWF to make it easy to replace the Media Player
> and only need to write the GUI stuff (leaving all the playlist stuff to
> MAWF, decoding to Gstreamer, and finding files to trackerd)?
>
> I've not looked at it though, so perhaps it's difficult to work with hence
> the lack of replacement players. Though if not, writing a proof of concept
> player to display the lyrics too shouldn't be too hard (he says).
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Simon
>
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