On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 18:43 -0700, William Bradbury wrote: > Hi, my name's Chase Bradbury. I recently found out about the Summer of Code > and saw that Mixxx was a part of it, so I figured I would introduce myself. > > I'm a computer science: game design major at UC Santa Cruz, and am planning > on getting a minor in electronic music. I've been working on a game engine > in C++ and I'm not familiar with Mixxx, but it seems like a project that's > right up my alley. I played around with it for a bit and glanced at the > code, but I need to spend quite a bit more time to really feel comfortable > with it. > > I'm really interested in the album cover project, and had a couple > questions. First, what image formats would it ideally support? Would you > prefer that image handling uses original code (as opposed to an external > library)? Is ID3 the only tag we really need to worry about?
Your implementation should pick up id3 tags and pictures saved in the folders. You can also use libraries, we already use taglib to read the id3 tags. You also have to come up with a way store the information our database. I wrote more about this in other mails already. You can check our mail archives. > Also, should > the dimensions of the window stay the same and the artwork get worked into > the existing space? Yeah the cover has to fit in the existing space. But don't worry to much about the UI something dead simple will do for the beginning the backend part described above is really complex and should be solved first. best Max > Thanks, and I look forward to working on developing for Mixxx > > -Chase > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
