Project Description

This project is an attempt to create a playlist-centric, tab-based media player designed to overcome some of the challenges a "Now Playing" list creates while still providing, and expanding upon, the functionality provided by "Now Playing".

The in_lay (INtuitive pLAYlist) player is designed to be a minimalistic, small (on both visible size and memory), fast, and simple media player written in C# with a SQLite back-end.

Sub-projects

In order to develop in_lay three other projects have been started.

• netAudio: A .NET audio playback library. (Currently using libVLC as a back-end but abstracted so that any playback library can be swapped in or out easily; also using a modified version of TagLib Sharp for audio tag reading/editing.)
• netDiscographer: A .NET media library system with extremely fast search and sorting. (Currently using SQLite as the database.)
• netGooey: A .NET/WPF skinnable interface system.

Currently, all these projects live inside in_lay. Once completed, they may be split up.

Developer Milestones

Italics: Complete

Bold: In Progress

Nothing: Not Yet Started

Milestone 1

• Library
  • Ability to add media
  • Ability to search
• Playback
  • Ability to play songs
  • Volume control
  • Seek
• Ability to save/load/search playlists

Milestone 2

• GUI/Skin Support
• Initial Release/SVN Upload

Milestone 3

• Tabbed interface
• "Intuitive Playlist" Functionality

Milestone 4

• Decreased memory footprint
• Add-on support