Hello team,
As I was authorised to spam you (details below), I am writing this
e-mail.. As a reply to Edward, I may say what Mr Schneier said about
Cloud: This is your data on somebody else's hard drive. I believe, as
a user I should have the right and the means to control the flow of my
personal data (yes, even the music playlists and the related usage
metadata), and I may prefer not to use cloud. Not because I have such
a trust to my personal workstation, which, if compromised, would lead
to the same uncontrolled leak of my personal information (FYI,
MacBookPro m2010, Mavericks). Not because I am a criminal. And not
because this material: http://slideshot.epfl.ch/events/cops makes me
feel happy about how well informed I am...
So I think the software should be fully functional even when used
(long term) offline. About the necessary bandwidth for streaming
lossless - it may not be available everywhere. And, yes, I know about
the trend that people listen only lossy music (often MP3@128kbps), so
nobody cares about the quality.
Please, see the attached mail.
Thanks to Edward for replying and thanks everybody for working over
this project.
Regards,
Ivan
----- Forwarded message from ha...@hades.name -----
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:15:28 +0200
From: Edward Toroshchin <ha...@hades.name>
Subject: Re: Improving user experience: managing music on multiple volumes
To: i.iva...@epfl.ch
Cc: ralf-eng...@gmx.de
Hi Ivan,
Thank you very much for your mail.
Your idea appeals greatly to me personally, since I have a large music
library and often listen to the music with my laptop.
However, currently the world is trending towards cloud services (like
Google Play Music) and mobile devices. In couple of years, the number of
smartphones and tablets will double, and the number of desktops and
laptops is going to remain the same.
So, unfortunately I must say that in appreciating your idea I am quite
outdated :).
Please feel free to forward your email (probably with my comments) to
amarok@kde.org, if you want an opinion of our team.
Thank you again for your mail, and have a nice day!
--
Edward
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:49:14PM +0200, i.iva...@epfl.ch wrote:
Hello Mr Engels, Mr Toroshchin,
I am ex-linux user, currently an Apple one. I have an idea how to
improve the user experience from the software used for playing music.
I wanted to write it to Apple, but then decided to first give it to
the open communities :) So in the following text I am talking about
iTunes, but this might be the player you are developing (which is the
same player I loved when I was on Ubuntu).
===============================================================================
I would like to share with you my idea: it is about playing music form
different physical volumes, some of which aren't permanently attached
to the computer. Let's assume that we have MBP with small SSD, and a
large external HDD (or NAS). All the music in ALAC format is present
on the external disk, and some of the music is on the local disk, in a
compressed format.
The idea is that iTunes checks if the external volume is present. If
yes, and if the song we want to play exists on the local HDD with
lower bitrate as well as on the external disk with a higher bitrate -
the better one (higher bitrate) is selected automatically (in the
playlist however there is only one item). There should be an
indication what is the file format and the bitrate of the song
currently being played.
If at launch (or after a user command for re-checking the availability
of the volumes) iTunes see that the external disk is not present, only
the playlist with existing items is displayed (i. e. only items
pointing to files on local disk).
An easy way to create a local compressed version from a file, which is
on the external disk, will be also necessary, in order to completely
avoid any user interaction with the filesystem.
As SSDs still aren't so large, I think this enhancement will be an
interesting feature.
===============================================================================
It is interesting for me to know if you find this idea useful.
Best regards,
Ivan
--
Edward
----- End forwarded message -----
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