[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of mytunes - an mp3 player. - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Hi,

I have approved your project.  

About inclusion in the gnu project, check
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html>

I would like to bring to your attention that mp3 is a proprietary
format encumbered with several patents. Even if it's currently free as
beer, it is not free as in freedom of speech. 
There's a good alternative, which is called ogg vorbis. It would be
very nice if your software support also this format.

Regards,



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> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
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> William Cahill <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: mytunes - an mp3 player.
> System name: mytunes
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> mytunes is going to be a wonderful new mp3 player.  I had searched the web, 
> including the savannah sites, for mp3 players, and couldn't find any ones to 
> my liking, particularly any made for NeXT/Open/GNUstep.  So I started my own. 
>  The current (almost ready?) source code can be found at 
> http://thuhfreak.isa-geek.com/~bill/mytunes.tar.gz (theres also a bz2'd 
> version).  I say almost ready because I still have to work out some gui 
> issues, fix audio, but generally everything I want for the first release is 
> there.  I had originally intended it to be an xmms-frontend (so you may 
> notice references to xmms throughout the code/gui), but I decided to switch 
> gears and go without xmms.  The main advantage (I hope) that mytunes will 
> have over other, players (like xmms) is reasonable playlist support.  I have 
> recently switched from osx to gnu/linux, and I had loved iTunes and how it 
> handled all that.  So I wanted to mimic iTunes smart playlists, and interface 
> a bit.  I, of course, won't refer to that program directly in the public 
> description.  I tried to keep pretty strict to myself about GPL issues.  I 
> made sure to have a notice at the top of every page, and to have the COPYING 
> file at the root.  And, about the files that came up before (this is my 
> second registration attempt): I had been trying several different id3 
> libraries (GPL'd or similar), and had intended to link with them, but in 
> testing I had their source mixed with mine (sorry).  I think I got rid of all 
> of them from the source directory.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> mytunes depends on GNUstep, Open/NeXTstep, or Mac OS X, or similar system 
> (foundation and appkit libraries).  I made it on GNUstep, but hopefully I 
> avoided any GNU-specific extensions for portability's sake.  It also uses 
> libmad for mpeg->pcm conversion, and libid3tag for reading (and eventually 
> writing) id3 tags.
> 
> Other Comments:
> I would also be interested, if I meet the requirements, for mytunes to be a 
> part of the GNU project.
> 
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