Hi, Thanks ryan. I get your replay in IRC. but can't send reply due to some problem in internet connection. I will modify the proposal including details about search grammar. I already created a rough model about search grammar. i will send a new proposal after including these details. Thanks for your suggestions.
Good night. regards, Sumesh. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:03 AM, RJ Ryan <rr...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hi Sumesh, > You asked on IRC, but I don't know if you got my responses, so I'm copying > them here for your and others' benefit: > First off, your proposal is nicely organized. I think it would be > stronger if you went into some more detail on what sort of > features you're going to put in your search grammar. For example, > you should explain what kind of operators you intend to support, > and how you think existing Mixxx features fit in with the > operators. This will help give us a sense that a) You have > thought about the project from both a technical and > user-interface point of view and b) You have some familiarity > with Mixxx, what it is for, and how our users use it. > I would suggest installing Mixxx and going through some online > guides on how to DJ, this will give you a sense of the pain > points that a novice user experiences when using Mixxx. I would > also suggest that you try to use Mixxx's library > extensively. Switch to Mixxx instead of your regular music player > for a day. Make sure to note all the ways in which the search > feature got in your way of using Mixxx. Since you are > re-designing search, it had better fix the problems you yourself > have with it :) If you do this, make sure to write about these steps > you went through in your proposal. > How will your operators make it easy to condition on things like > BPM, or song key? How will you be able to condition on songs that > are in a given playlist or crate? How will people specify negations? > (i.e. show me songs that don't have "GAGA" in the title, or aren't > in my "Bad Music" crate) > The application is the chance to show us that you've thought > about the problem. My suggestion is to look at services that make > very good use of operators (GMail, Google Search) and see if you > can pick off any ideas and apply them to problems our users face > with Mixxx. > I personally think that a DJ could make very effective use of > GMail-style labels if crates worked that way. > Your proposal doesn't have to be a design document, so don't go > into deep technical/implementation detail. Stay high-level. It > would make the application stronger to show that you've > considered the user and how they will integrate your operator > language into their "DJ workflow" e.g. how they organize, > categorize, and filter through their music collections. > I hope this has helped. Please feel free to ask anything either > on IRC (rryan) or on mixxx-devel if you have more questions. > Best regards, > RJ Ryan > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Sumesh KS <iamsum...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> I prepared a draft proposal for "Advanced Library Search" and uploaded. >> Link is >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Bzs8XKoC0mOIZmI4MmJiMTYtZjUyYi00NTQwLTk0MDktOWM0ODA3MjU4MjEw&hl=en&authkey=CJWl-p4J >> >> >> This is not a final one. I like to get opinion about this proposal, >> from project mentor and mixxx community. >> >> I am looking forward to hear opinion. >> >> Regards, >> >> Sumesh. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar >> _______________________________________________ >> Mixxx-devel mailing list >> Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
