MusiK is Kowari's demo application. It does seem to have problems with some Mp3 metadata in iTunes but the supplied Mp3 in the data directory works. The UI is still a little rough (you have to scroll up the panel divider in OS X, for example). The point though is to show how to write an application using Kowari and the speed at querying, loading, etc.
MusiK (Music Player for Kowari).
Kowari now uses JID3 - A Java ID3 Class Library Implementation (in CVS) and it seems to do a better job of not dying when parsing the ID3 tags.
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I hope no-one takes it too seriously. It was an example App that took just over a week to write.
MusiK sounds great!
Just a thought - one way that might expose more people to Kowari might be to add on 'iPodder' support. Don't know if you've encountered this stuff, but basically an RSS 2.0 feed may contain links to 'enclosures' which are usually mp3 audio (usually of someone tediously droning). The iPodder apps can download these in the middle of the night, and (I believe) automatically transfer the file onto an iPod.
This wouldn't need all the work on GUI needed to build a competitive aggregator, you should have most of what's needed already in MusiK. The metadata side could easily outshine any of the existing iPodder apps (though a shiny GUI would help ;-)
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