[tahoe-dev] GSoC Idea: Cloud app - Music player

[Josip Lisec]

> 1. Can you even DO THAT in Javascript? Clearly you're going to need a
> Mentor who knows more about Javascript than I do. :-)

Of course you can do that in JavaScript! JavaScript is slowly becoming
the most ubiquitous language.
You can either use the new HTML5 audio [1], or wonderful SoundManager2
[2] flash library, JAI looks nice too.
I would highly prefer using HTML5 audio tag (with help of JAI or some
other similar library) but,
only latest versions of browsers support it (ie, every browser except
IE), I'm not sure if that would be a problem?

> 2. http://libre.fm could be an interesting source of code to share,
> ideas, and cooperation from other programmers.

Definitely cool project about which I totally forgot. Some level of integration
should happen for sure, a option for users to switch between last.fm & libre.fm
for service to which they want their listens to be scrobbled/gobbled, the player
could even benefit from their API for recommendation.

> 4. Also there are already at least three Javascript libraries which
> provide at least partial Tahoe-LAFS features. One is by Nathan Wilcox
> and is named "tahoewapijs".

Unfortunately, I realised that few hours after I sent the email :D

> Okay the next step is for you to submit a Project Proposal on
> http://socghop.appspot.com . Please go ahead and fill out the
> application and submit it to the GSoC site because you can always
> update it after you've initially submitted it. We can edit it and
> improve it "in place" and then we don't have to worry about missing
> the deadline.
I will do that for sure, I wasn't sure if I should do it before
being contacted from someone within the project.

Cheers,
Josip

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_audio_and_video_in_Firefox
[2] http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/