pTAM Media Player is an innovative media player designed keeping in mind, the word – Simple.
The player is mainly developed for the emerging mobile market although a PC (or Mac) version of the player sure do play a major role in its marketing strategies. And accordingly, I can’t give you all the details about the player, but through this post you can get a glimpse of the UI for the PC version of the player.
The player consists of 3 main parts or modules, of which this particular post focus only on the main player module. The player is designed as an application to be made available online, that means, the media player is an ONLINE MEDIA PLAYER. So let’s get to the UI.
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pTAM Media Player Modules The above diagram talks!! I guess you have got the hunch why the Media Player is developed as an online application?? The player has the options to upload your music collection online, manage it, create playlist from your own collection and blah blah. The music has to be streamed online, such that you don’t have to carry a high capacity storage music player wherever you go. Personally, I don’t own a music player which have the storage capacity of ~40gb which is my collection in my PC.
Well, the previous post let you know the main structure of the media player. If you’ve not gone through it, check the post at pTAM Media Player: an innovative media player 1 before continuing this post.
Now, let’s get closer to the Player Control Area.
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Control Area
Like I told you earlier, the image above speaks.
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Playlist
The player will look as below.
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The Player
So, that’s it for the present. The UX designs for the player is still under development. If you’ve your say, don’t forget to leave me a comment.
pTAM Online Music Player (Alpha):
1) What is pTAM?
pTAM is a new generation Online Music Player. The main concept lies in its portability and user friendly aspects. In pTAM, users can upload their own mp3s on the SIBI server, create their own SIBI playlists, manage their uploaded files and listen it through the SIBI online player from their home PC or Mac, PMPs such as the Ipod, or through their mobile devices which supports the required platform.
2) Why pTAM?
pTAM is different, or in fact the first of its kind. It is NOT an online Radio Player.It is different because users can upload their own music collection on the server and access it from anywhere on this planet (of course when you are connected!!). It can be imagined as the Winamp combined with your hard drive online. Many people usually have a wide collection of music in their PC or Mac, which usually of course, exceeds the capacity of a common PMP (say of 4gb or 8gb, I myself have a collection of more than 90gb!!) and almost everyone hears music while on the travel, on the way to college, on the way to his friends place and so on; but none have the time or the patience to choose out his favorite ones to be uploaded in his 4g or 8gb PMP. No one likes to sit down and make a new collection of his mp3s which will squeeze in his PMs Memory capacity and at the same time includes all his favorites. As a person’s music collection grows over time to time, he may have a lot of albums that he may like to carry around with him but which is not possible because: Low Memory capacity of PMPs (Large Memory PMPs cost a fortune!) Doesn’t have time to sit and pick out the ones he like; or to be precise, hardly if anyone is asked what are their favorite ones, he’ll be able to say just a few out of his huge collection. The truth is, the brain doesn’t give out like a printed list saying, ‘Here’s the list you would want to put in your PMP’… pardon us, we are HUMAN!! But when you are on a journey, say a cross country tour, you won’t want to carry your laptop or PC over to everywhere you go, but the PMP, sure is meant for that time and moreover, you won’t know which type of songs you are going to listen during the journey; it depends on the place you visit, or the people you meet or it could be anything. Bottomline: You do not know which one to put around. You just want to listen to it when you feel like listening to it.
