Amarok/Development/Requirements

Requirements, scope and vision

List of Requirements

• 1. shall play music
  • 1.1 shall play music files such as mp3
  • 1.2 shall play podcasts
  • 1.3 shall play music streams
  • 1.4 shall play CUE files
  • 1.5 shall play music files not previously imported
• 2. shall show context information of music
• 3. shall show tag information of music
• 4. shall be easy to use
• 5. shall be responsive / never block
• 6. shall be extensible
  • 6.1 shall have scriptable playlists
  • 6.2 shall have scriptable servces
• 7. shall keep statistics for tracks (not albums)
• 8. shall show all the files in a collection (not completely hide several files with the same content)
• 9. should hide duplicate tracks in the collection browser
• 10. shall run on Linux and Windows
• 11. shall be usable in 640x480 screen size
• 12. shall look nice
  • 12.1 shall be able to reset layout
• 13. playqueue shall show a list of tracks
  • 13.1 it shall be possible to reorder the tracks in a playqueue
  • 13.2 it shall be possible to view the list of previous played trcks
  • 13.3 it shall be possible to view the list of upcomming tracks
• 14. it shall be possible to edit meta information of tracks
• 15. it shall be possible to search in the collection
• 16. it shall be possible to move tracks between collections
• 17. shall use album and track gain
• 18. shall have a linear volume slider
• 19. shall not crash when taglib crashes
• 20. it shall be possible to disable plugins and collections
  • 20.1 disabled plugins should not waste time during startup