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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<herd>gnustep</herd>
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<longdescription>
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Cynthiune (january 2004)
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What is Cynthiune?
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Cynthiune is a free software and romantic music player for GNUstep and MacOSX.
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I wrote it originally as a christmas gift to a girl that I liked because she
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could not listen to music on her Mac with a free program. Since then, I decided
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to make it public and add even more features to make it a complete and useable
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media player.
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For the moment, it looks pretty much like XMMS, Winamp and similar software.
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Even though it has far less features than those, the essential components of a
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usable and user-friendly program are there in my opinion.
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From a programmatic point-of-view, I have decided to write a program that is
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released only when considered bug-free. The free software community lacks,
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IMnsHO, a sense of quality that makes its programs nearly useless to
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lambda users. Not only is it useless, but I think it also gives free software
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a bad reputation. The principle of freedom in "free software" is fundamental
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to me, but it has to be reachable not only by some sort of geeky elite. There
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is no point in telling users that since they have the freedom to enhance those
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programs, they must fix them if they want to use them. Releasing a program
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with too many bugs is of no use and is likely not to interest other fellow
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programmers in the community either.
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On the other hand, Apple has published an interesting program called "iTunes".
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Of course, it is not free software but it does implement interesting ideas
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that I would like to include in Cynthiune. For example: CD burning, complete
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playlist management, etc... Personally I find its user interface to be not as
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user-friendly as it could be. My plan is thus to take advantage of my own
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programming skills and sense of aesthetics (and ergonomy) to try to write
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something a little bit different, inspired both by XMMS/Winamp and iTunes.
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Cynthiune is thus currently very basic but its core design is starting to be
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extensible enough that it will not be too much trouble to enhance it.
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</longdescription>
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</pkgmetadata>
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