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Upload appcast to server #205

Closed thomas1602 closed 9 years ago

thomas1602 commented 9 years ago

@hems I guess we should wait until we get the final version from Adrian

He told me he'd have it ready for 1st of June. Do you know if he's been working on it?

hems commented 9 years ago

yes, spoke with him and he said he is already working on the new VU sending information as you select the device, also there is some issues i created regarding sending the volume in "db", so we can know when it's green and when it's red!

he also told me at the moment he is using mp3 192 kbps @ 44.1khz for all streams!

perhaps we should define which quality we will do for free and which for premium users!

i believe 192kbps stereo is pretty good for free! we could even lower to 160 kbps and 320kbps for premium ?

hems commented 9 years ago

Anyway for now, i have created /download/Appcast.zip so you can link to download AppCast from there.

Later on we will see if we will add the version of AppCast to the filname or something like that.

Also how we will do for Windows vs Mac ( maybe that is a thing for the download page? maybe we can just detect automatically and point user to the same platform he is running the browser? )

thomas1602 commented 9 years ago

Yeah I think 160 bit rate for free users could be a good limit. Btw why is appcast in a zip folder? Isn't the file really small already?

hems commented 9 years ago

@thomas1602 because OSX App files is actually a folder but "undercover" as a ".app" file.

In order to be downloaded as 1 single file it must be zipped

thomas1602 commented 9 years ago

Ok I see, I guess that won't make users hesitant?

hems commented 9 years ago

@thomas1602 there is only 2 ways to distribute an OSX app.

1 - give them an ".dmg", the kind that "mounts" like a CD / USB Stick and the user has to Drag it to applications on somewhere else.

Like Adium does, have a look on the design of the .dmg file they give: https://adium.im

2 - zip the .app file, so the user has to unzip and move it if they want to move.

I believe mac users are more used to method 1 ( it seems more professional ), but i don't think 2 is bad.