
Wishes for version 2.2.6
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version 2.2.6

- Win32 support restored.
- C++ cleanup (removal of c anachronisms in main player)
  conversion to boost libraries 
  boost::format
  boost::filesystem




Wishes for version 2.3
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- Directory View tree music browser.
- Faster music browser startup (lazy db).
- Search song function in music browser.
- Support for password protected streams.
- FLAC support
- C++ cleanup (removal of c anachronisms in plugin)

Wishes for version 2.3+
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- Common graphical UI for linux/win.
- Album Art
- Tag files based on directory/filenames
- Organize directories based on Tags.



Wishes for version 3.0
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- Complete rewrite from base principles.





Some libraries to look at:

Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA)
   http://www.ladspa.org/    
   Ogg and Wav equalizer?

GStreamer
   http://www.gstreamer.net/
   Audio pipeline 

GnomeVFS - Filesystem Abstraction library
   http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gnome-vfs/
   Input plugins,  decode plugins based on stream data


VorbisGain:
   Adjust volume through tags in vorbis files


Cross-platform libraries:


wxWindows: (http://wxwindows.org/)
GTK: (http://www.gtk.org/)
Qt: (http://www.trolltech.com/)
FLTK: (http://www.fltk.org/)
FOX: (http://www.fox-toolkit.org/fox.html

Recommendations from http://www.scorpioncity.com/xprog.html

