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kristian kvilekval | 9 Jun 01:10
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Re: xmltree and mdb


I've updated my archive with a some new search stuff
which takes care of the problem outlined below.
Combined with the patches from dave's archive
the browser seems downright speedy.

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:24 -0700, kristian kvilekval wrote:
> Yes, I see your point.. I didn't try it on directories.
> 
> We need a way to know that the cache is incomplete and
> therefore other sources should be searched again for 
> the incomplete tags.  The cache should also be a union
> of queries instead of simply a cache of the last query.
> 
> I had thought of time stamping the keys.  The first time 
> a key is searched on the timestamp would be 0, and after that
> the timestamp would come from the winning metadata source.
> However, I didn't want to add the complexity.  Another
> way would be to allow searches based on the original algorithm:
> look at all the sources until the set of keys is fulfilled
> combined with a good default meta datasource (fill all unknown keys
> with a default value).
> 
> I'll look into it.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 21:57 +0100, David Hough wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 May 2005 20:58:38 +0100, kristian kvilekval <kris <at> cs.ucsb.edu>  
> > wrote:
> > >
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Volker Jung | 9 Jun 19:09
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Translation offering...

Hello developers,

I´m from Germany and would like to translate ZINF into German. Are you interested?

Best regards
Volker Jung

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kristian kvilekval | 9 Jun 20:10
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Re: Translation offering...

Sure, 

grab the po/zinf.pot and send the translations to the list.
You can get copy of the tree from CVS (instructions on web) 

or arch using 

tla register-archive http://www.zinf.org/arch
tla get zinf-devel <at> sourceforge.net/zinf--cvstrunk--1 

Thanks

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 19:09 +0200, Volker Jung wrote:
> Hello developers,
> 
> I´m from Germany and would like to translate ZINF into German. Are you interested?
> 
> Best regards
> Volker Jung
> 
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kristian kvilekval | 10 Jun 02:31
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playlist options

David,

  Is there a preference to turn off receiving a new 
playlist (tab,window) when selecting a playlist item?

If I select an album from MyMusic-<artist>-<album>
the tracks are added to the main list.  However,
if I similarly select a playlist, a new window/tab is
created.  This does not bother me too much 
when using the default view, but I end up
with too many windows in the classic view.  

In a related issue, I think the option 
"By default queue tracks rather than play..."

should be removed and replaced with separate options:

1.  Autoclear: clear playlist on track addition
2.  Autoplay: Play immediately on track addition

Finally, aren't the options 
"Save current playlist..." and  "Open file to Last Selection"
related options, something like  
 autorestore: "Restore last playlist on startup"

These changes would mean:

on startup:  
    if autorestore and  there was previous playlist 
then   restore as current playlist
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Volker Jung | 11 Jun 12:54
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While translating...

...and using it a few questions came up:

What´s the goal of ZINF? To get as good as WinAMP already is?

For really becoming an alternative to WinAMP ZINF should be able to manage the following tasks:

- no crashes at startup (ZINF crashes often at startup on my machine)
- MANY translations
- PEREFCT Skin like WinAMP has - I have already contacted the author of WinAMP´s standard skin if he wants to
give persmission to use it for ZINF
- FLAC support (ONE lossless format should be supported and flac is open source)
- Visualisation studio giving optical flexibility

These are my comments for every topic:

- crashes are always a problem using multimedia, perhaps anyone has some good ideas - maybe a timing problem
(WinAMP starts slowly...)
- translations should be an easy thing if offering a real free POWERFUL player (German one is in progress)
- Skin and skin-translation - ONE professional skin is enough and should be creatable
- flac should be easy to be included
- some mathematic freaks outside for vst???

One additional idea is the integation of MyMusic into the skin.

Last but not least: There´s a bug inside the slider routines: They set slider values to the values that
would appear if someone had clicked on te right edge of the slider button. If clicking somewhere else
inside the button this has the effect of a jump of the slider what is annoying especially with volume control.

One little point in addition: A nice icon is important for beeing liked by normal people...
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David Hough | 12 Jun 21:20

Re: playlist options

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:31:08 +0100, kristian kvilekval <kris <at> cs.ucsb.edu>  
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> David,
>
>   Is there a preference to turn off receiving a new
> playlist (tab,window) when selecting a playlist item?
>
> If I select an album from MyMusic-<artist>-<album>
> the tracks are added to the main list.  However,
> if I similarly select a playlist, a new window/tab is
> created.  This does not bother me too much
> when using the default view, but I end up
> with too many windows in the classic view.

No, there isn't currently a preference to do that, though I see your point  
that there should be. I'll look into it.

>
> In a related issue, I think the option
> "By default queue tracks rather than play..."
>
> should be removed and replaced with separate options:
>
> 1.  Autoclear: clear playlist on track addition
> 2.  Autoplay: Play immediately on track addition

Seems reasonable, but is Autoclear without Autoplay really a needed  
option? Would it be be clearer to have 3 possible modes equivalent to  
autoclear+autoplay, autoplay, neither?
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David Hough | 14 Jun 23:13

Re: xmltree and mdb

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:36 +0100, kristian kvilekval <kris <at> cs.ucsb.edu>  
wrote:

>
> I've updated my archive with a some new search stuff
> which takes care of the problem outlined below.
> Combined with the patches from dave's archive
> the browser seems downright speedy.
>

...

Right, as everything seems to be working well at the moment I've just  
promoted everything to CVS.

CVS, zinf-devel <at> sourceforge.net/zinf--cvstrunk--1, and  
david <at> theprioities.com--2005/zinf--browsermm--0.5 should now all be the  
same, with Kristian's zinf--xmlmod branch, my zinf--xmltree and the  
Win32/MingW code all merged in.

Cheers,
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David Hough | 18 Jun 22:27

Re: playlist options

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:20:06 +0100, David Hough <david <at> thepriorities.com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:31:08 +0100, kristian kvilekval  
> <kris <at> cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>>   Is there a preference to turn off receiving a new
>> playlist (tab,window) when selecting a playlist item?
>>
>> If I select an album from MyMusic-<artist>-<album>
>> the tracks are added to the main list.  However,
>> if I similarly select a playlist, a new window/tab is
>> created.  This does not bother me too much
>> when using the default view, but I end up
>> with too many windows in the classic view.
>
> No, there isn't currently a preference to do that, though I see your  
> point that there should be. I'll look into it.

I've now added the option "AutoOpenPlaylists" which defaults to false.

This is avaliable from my zinf--browsermm branch (and from CVS as it got  
merged in along with some bugfixes)

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