alankila/droidsound — comment on commit 8708dd3fd75b047704de09f6cee9772cd6bc6547
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By alankila:

Sasq64 does not seem to be developing the application anymore, so I decided to fork it and start evolving it towards my own tastes. I will probably have to change the name though.

I do not think mp3 playback and streaming should be in the scope for this application, as they have nothing to do with emulation of anything, and I'm pretty sure that better http stream listening applications must exist already. (If not, that's a market opportunity for somebody else.)

I also disabled capability to fetch music from the internet because:

1) SID music is easy to keep on a device, it's like 300 MB zip or something like that only;

2) MOD music is not due to several orders of magnitude difference in size, but the practical delays associated to the huge collections like ModLand (where fetching the directory lists already takes quite long a time) are such that local music storage becomes a practical necessity anyway. It should be possible for people to collect the 100 to 1000 mods they typically listen into a zip and keep it with them, or install such collections already made by other people.

With the deletion of NativeZipFile I was forced to workaround the bug in Android's ZipFile that prevents reading archives with more than 32768 files on it. This is a difficult spot for me to be in, but I'll probably develop piece of code that tests if android has the bug and if yes, uses my workaround until it is fixed in future android version.