Comments on: Quasar Media Player

By: Brenda

Brenda — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:56:29 +0000

Invitation of writing an introduction page on Openmoko wiki

HI:
I am the wiki editor of Openmoko (wiki.openmoko.org .)
I would like to invite you to write an introduction page for Quasar Media Player.
This page will help people easily to find all information of Quasar.
And share their ideas with you via wiki page.

Your help will be sincerely appreciated.

Best Regards

Brenda
Openmoko Wiki editor

By: PaulH

PaulH — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:24:56 +0000

Thank you so much for this. It does everything I want, disables suspend when shut, integrates with volume control applet. Amazing. Have you considered listing this app on elsix?

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:09:47 +0000

@elhennig: Sure, will do.

Here is a little update:
The current version in the SVN is pretty stable already. I was able to reduce the memory usage of Quasar quite dramatically. Also the software should be able to handle 4000 songs in a playlist on a Zaurus with decent performance. This is important to me since I actually have that many files in my playlist and as a music maniac I rely on the software…

Other changes:
- Added Cover Art Flow feature akin to the feature found in i*Tunes and the i*Phone;
- Integrated lightweight cover download manager, which uses external opensource webservice (TBA) to query for cover art image files;
- Improved touchscreen-friendly play info screen;
- Improved performance and memory management;

No binaries available yet and I still have to finish the play info screen and fix some bugs in the Windows port, but all in all it’s already stable.

By: elhennig

elhennig — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:38:51 +0000

As you are working on the next release, would you mind to post a short message on http://www.linuxontour.de/ once you are done with the new version?

By: matthis

matthis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:59:06 +0000

Thank you very much for your kind reply.
I was trying with qt3-mac, that’s probably why it didn’t work.

I got it compiled today (with qt3, qt3-shlibs, and ccache from fink).

Best regards

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:28:36 +0000

Actually I am developing Quasar on OS X using the Qt3 libs of Fink. However, I haven’t updated my Fink installation in quite a while, so perhaps some things have changed. Also I got Quasar running on qt3-mac once, so there is no need to use X11, but that is no longer working.
Right now I am finishing features for the next release so I don’t have much time to try anything new.
Do you have the Qt4 libs installed? Perhaps it’s colliding with the Qt3 stuff.

export QTDIR=”/sw/lib/qt3″

What does
ls -la /sw/bin/qmake /sw/bin/moc
print?

You can send me the complete log of the compile if you like. That way I can check it out. Just check “About” above for my contact details. Thanks.

By: matthis

matthis — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:02:03 +0000

Would it be easy to make a mac os x binary?
I tried (using fink to install qt3 libs), but without success … lots of errors, starting with

/usr/include/string.h:81: error: ‘size_t’ has not been declared

Thanks for any help

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:30:41 +0000

@JB and @slewis69au, I’ve added your requests to my Trac.
And for everybody else that feels the desire to donate something I’ve added a link to the site’s PayPal account above.

By: JB

JB — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:36:56 +0000

I’d be really grateful if you could make this accessible to qvga zaurus users!

By: slewis69au

slewis69au — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:51:09 +0000

Hi,

Firstly I’d like to say that this software is excellent and along with the fixes you’ve made to the audio is the answer to some of the issues I’ve been having with my Zaurus.

You should get yourself a Paypal account because I for one would donate.

I would like to make a feature request
- Random Album
I know it sounds silly but a lot of music I listen to are albums which are designed to be listed to from start to finish so I’d love the ability to randomly select an album from a dynamic playlist.

Thanks,

Stephen