I heard about Slimp3 on Slashdot. I guess it must have been the first review. According to some comments, it was still vapourware at the time. However, spring of 2002 I was stuck taking over rent on a house where I had previously only rented a single room (never fun when housemates can't bother to leave notice). I'd saved a fair bit renting only the one room so price wasn't an issue so when I saw that there was a steady supply ready for sale, I jumped at it. I'd always wanted to have a way to connect my mp3 collection to my stereo, having ripped much of it for my old portable player.
Not long after, it must have been around v3.4 of slimp3 server (mid 2002), I started playing around with the options and finding that I wanted a few different behaviours from the skins. I had some minimal experience with perl from university, and eventually hacked my way into a few changes for the early skins. I then started looking over the few plugins available at the time. Most were simple rss/html scrapers and very localised. I started pestering the author for help in parsing sites that provided more relevant content for me (ie canadian). Eventually my customisations for my own skin got so far that it ended up as a new skin of it's own and I got an email asking if I'd mind if it was included with the software. Next thing I knew I was writing a feature for an alarm clock and that got requested as well. I then got a phone call one day from Dean, telling me about a new product they were working on and asking if I'd be interested in testing. Duh. And now, after many thousands of hours testing, hacking, patching....well, it's a long list of players now. The original SliMP3 is still working just fine too. -kdf _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
