Brainstorm

Media player enhancements

Posted on 2009-06-19 18:30 UTC by rahul garg. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Media.

Problem : Software on tablets not suitable for serious audiophiles. No EQ, poor navigation and management of playlists is very poor.

 

Description :

1. Players like the default media player on OS2008 and Canola do not have an equalizer. A good equalizer should provide both custom EQ as well as default builtins like "Rock", "Jazz" and so on which is common with many desktop media players as well as MP3 players.

 

2. Navigating around hundreds of music files is also a pain on most current media players on the tablets. Better solutions are required. For navigation, inspiration can be drawn from players like the iPod touch which provide an alphabetical scroll bar at the side which makes reaching to a song a snap, or the Sony Walkman Mp3 player with tabs for "A-F',"G-K" and so on at the top or various other interfaces.

When you have hundreds of songs on your tablet and you want to listen to THAT particular song, how do you do so? How many taps or scrolls are required to get to a song when you know the title of the song? How many taps or scrolls are required when you know the album? For a serious audiophile with a large library, FAST navigation is a very important requirements.

3. Other suggestions are on-the-device playlist support. Good media player software should support forming and saving playlists as well as transferring playlists in formats like m3u.

 

 

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Solution #1: Canola should implement these

Posted on 2009-06-19 18:32 UTC by rahul garg.

Canola should have equalizer and better navigation. Navigation support will not only benifit music but also videos and potentially photos.

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Solution #2: Equalizer exposed as library, navigation upto player

Posted on 2009-06-19 18:40 UTC by rahul garg.

Equalizer should be exposed as a system library while navigation can be left upto the developers of any particular media player like Kagu, Canola and so on. This will enable the media player developers to focus on their own particular GUI development while providing equalizers across the board.

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Solution #3: Add equalizer to Pulseaudio and use Tracker.

Posted on 2009-07-12 16:25 UTC by Sébastien Gendre.

1. Developpe an Equalizer for PulseAudio.

 

2.- Relying on Tracker for scan files and storing tag informations. When a program wants to know what songs are available after the name of the artist, album, genre or even of using a keyboard input, the software interrogates tracker.

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Solution #4: Equalizer support in MAFW

Posted on 2009-10-21 13:15 UTC by Juan A. Suarez.

Being MAFW the multimedia framework in Fremantle, I find more logic to add it in this layer.

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Solution #5: Add folder selection to media player

Posted on 2010-01-31 01:35 UTC by Andreas Jeitler.

It should be possible to browse filesystem folders from within mediaplayer, and select files and folders for playback.
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Solution #6: Suport ReplayGain in the media player

Posted on 2010-03-02 02:45 UTC by Ian Cullinan.

See Wikipedia for what ReplayGain is and why you'd want it (short explanation: it can normalise the volume of your tracks so you're not constantly reaching for the volume controls, but without destructively modifying your files).

Since MAFW (as far as I can tell) doesn't support any kind of "filter" plug-ins, I don't think this can be implemented by the community. So, it should be supported directly by the media player.

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