Qtopia Home - Classes - Hierachy - Annotated - Functions - Licenses - Reference

Music Specification

The Music application is used to manage and play various types of music files. The available files are listed using the Qtopia document model. The music is categorized and information about the files is displayed.

Features

Supported Formats

Music supports a range of audio formats including:

Scanning for Music Documents

Scanning for music files incrementally searches the following locations:

As the scanning takes place, a percentage progress indicator displays the estimated completion of the document scanning, since it may take some time for large music collections.

It is possible to filter the list of files as it is being generated. This filtering is carried out by user specified category.

Re-scanning takes place when the program is notified of document changes. Events that cause an update of the listed files include:

Music Documents List

The following features are required:

Playing Music Files

It is possible to select a music file from the list and play the file without the music application already having been launched. When the file is played, the appropriate decoder plugin will be found and initialized. The music application then displays the user interface to control the playback of the file. It is possible to install different decoder plugins on the device and for the player to detect them.

Music files are also played when selected from the documents list of the Qtopia Launcher. When launched from the documents list the player UI is displayed immediately, and the scanning for documents is avoided.

Playback Options

When a music file is selected and played the user is able to perform the following operations:

Playback Keypad Support

For phones with keypads, there is a mapping of hardware keys to player actions. During playback of a track the following mappings will be used:

Playback Status

When a music file is played the following information is displayed (if available):


Copyright © 2005 Trolltech Trademarks
Qtopia version 2.2.0