Proposed updates

[c08oprkiua]

So, I'm not quite sure where to start with this, cause this isn't so much of a bug issue and more of just a general inquiry...

I am a developer that has made and worked on several projects in Godot, and I would like to contribute to this project, but some of the contributions I would like to make involve considerable changes to the codebase.

Some of the more minor ones I would like:

• Tweaking the folder system, so that it also scans subfolders of a chosen folder, and then subfolders of those and etc., until it finds music files. This would create a lot less manual work for the users, because they can just choose their base folder and be done with it, and Veles will do the rest.
• Change the ID3 reader to an in-house GDscript script that I made, main benefit being more universal platform support out of the box (my repo for that is here)

Now, some of the more extreme changes:

• I would like to do a major overhaul of the codebase. I noticed when working with Veles for personal forks (more on that in a bit) that the codebase is very spread out, and I would like to simplify it. Of course, this would be a very major change to get used to, but my hope is that it will be a lot simpler for other programmers to follow, so that it is less difficult for more people to contribute to the project in the future.
• Update to Godot 4. I have personally been working on this in my own personal (private, unreleased) fork of Veles, because I work in Godot 4, and I think it could bring benefits in the extra GDscript performance, for low end devices. This would be less of an extreme change compared to the above, however I think it would still be "extreme" because it is moving to an entire different version of Godot.

Thanks for reading. Also, if you happen to have Discord, I would prefer to talk there

[LyffLyff]

Hey, first sry for the long response time.

I'd love for someone who actually has some experience, to advance this project of mine. This was my first bigger project so, I was aware that it had some major issues for some time. Problem is I don't know if I currently have the free time to do all the major changes you suggested, since porting to Godot 4 would take a significant time investment, especially since I haven't really worked with it a bunch and many parts require the GDNative code to function. Your ID3-Script is really clean and cool, but the support of the TagLib Library for non ID3-Headers is a big part of Veles imo.

Overall, here's my discord username lyfflyff I'd love to discuss this with to you over discord.

Thanks for the interest in this project :)