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== Vision ==
Amarok 3: The revival of the desktop music player!

Long before tablets started replacing laptops the use of music
playback software like Amarok was in decline.<br/>
Less and less people use a full desktop computer anywhere but the office. Instead laptops and ultra-portables became people's main machines. The size of HD based media-players compared to those in laptops and the general
move towards legal downloads means the "local" music collection is likely to be less massive then before.<br/>
Network Attached Storage and cloud drives offer data security and access from anywhere on the internet. Streaming services like spotify are even better since they have a massive collection and good dedicated software to access it. Yet it might not have all of your favorite artists or that classical collection you have ripped from a 30-CD box.<br/>
There is a market for a music player that brings all these sources together. It's more usefull now then ever before.<br/>
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Amarok 3's core will be the best platform to build fully featured
music players for any platform.

== 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

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