Amarok/Development/Requirements

Requirements, scope and vision

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