Bug#895253: ITP: elisa -- Simple music player with a focus on Plasma desktop integration and privacy

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello,

I would like to clarify the local versus online music features in Elisa.

We plan to first focus on very good support for local music before trying to 
support online services.

Local music was the focus of the 0.1 version and will probably be also the 
focus of the next version.

I have started looking at online services and most of the popular ones no 
longer provide a simple way to use them outside their clients. We will need 
time to add support for them.

We would also want to add support for MusicBrainz for example even if again 
the priority is to first support correctly local music before adding support 
for that.

Best regards

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Matthieu Gallien

Bug#895253: ITP: elisa -- Simple music player with a focus on Plasma desktop integration and privacy

[Adam Borowski]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 11:47:54PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 11:34:29PM +0200, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
> > * Package name: elisa
> > * URL : https://community.kde.org/Elisa
> >   Description : Simple music player with a focus on Plasma desktop
> > integration and privacy
> [...]
> >  Elisa is developed using modern KDE technologies and aims to be reliable
> >  and respectful of users’ privacy. As such, it favors online services where
> >  users are in control of their data.
> 
> While I need online music services about as much as I need an additional
> hole in the head, this raises a good point: why do music players shipped in
> Debian default to grabbing lyrics, "LastFM stats", tags, and what not, even
> when playing local media?

Just to make this more obvious: this is not a dig on _elisa_, this is a dig
on everything else.

As for elisa, it would be nice if you could make it obvious what the
upstream writes: that online services are not a development priority -- this
player is supposed to be good for offline music, which is exactly what I
want.  The current description makes it seem to be a tool for online stuff
_only_, merely with some respect for privacy.

(Re-added CC to the bug -- wrt my wish for the description.)


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Bug#895253: ITP: elisa -- Simple music player with a focus on Plasma desktop integration and privacy

[Aurélien COUDERC]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Aurélien COUDERC 

* Package name: elisa
  Version : 0.1
  Upstream Author : KDE Community
* URL : https://community.kde.org/Elisa
* License : GPL-3 with Qt exception, LGPL-3
  Programming Lang: C++, QML
  Description : Simple music player with a focus on Plasma desktop
integration and privacy

 Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be
 simple and nice to use. It tries to be flexible to account for different
 workflows and use-cases. It focuses on a very good integration with the
 Plasma desktop of the KDE community without compromising the support for
 other environments.
 .
 Elisa is developed using modern KDE technologies and aims to be reliable
 and respectful of users’ privacy. As such, it favors online services where
 users are in control of their data.