Is MediaCar Dead?

**more mods** · 10-07-2004, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by PTCruiser

I think you are completely wrong...

I know coyote from a long a time ago on the French forum (that was long time BEFORE he went to mp3car)

He spend a lot of time and night... working on this software filling all the request....(a commercial version was not his goal)
Licensing from Ice Pak & some other companies is not a lot of money... (those compagnie have contacted him...)

The last news I have is that he stopped is work to build his own small private company (not related to pcincar you cannot make a lot of money in this field)

Now I suppose that he have a LOT of work for his small firm and no more time at all for hobby... (he also have a family)

So, do you think Ice Pak is selling the same version that we are using?

**Enforcer** · 10-07-2004, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by PTCruiser

I think you are completely wrong...

I know coyote from a long a time ago on the French forum (that was long time BEFORE he went to mp3car)

He spend a lot of time and night... working on this software filling all the request....(a commercial version was not his goal)
Licensing from Ice Pak & some other companies is not a lot of money... (those compagnie have contacted him...)

The last news I have is that he stopped is work to build his own small private company (not related to pcincar you cannot make a lot of money in this field)

Now I suppose that he have a LOT of work for his small firm and no more time at all for hobby... (he also have a family)

I agree, starting up a company, having a family and a load of other things, can take up the mans time. I mean the amount of grief I get from family about time spent with the car, PC and the little software projects I have.

However, it would only take a couple of minutes of his time to make one post to explain what is going on, whether it be he has no time to continue developing, whether he has sold the end product, or it's on hold and he will come back to it later.

**hijinks21** · 10-07-2004, 07:33 AM

i've seen a ton of open source developers just stop doing anything for years.. it gets hard to get online when you have a new family and then start a new business.. He might be working 80 hours a week on his new business and want to spend sometime with his family. Take a look at headunit which is made to work like mediacar.. or checkout any of the other number of free frontends.. there are a ton of nice looking ones in development.

**M^ck^y** · 10-07-2004, 07:39 AM

and where are these softwares found?

**heypachuco** · 10-07-2004, 07:49 AM

Um......
take alook around the Software & Software Development forums...

**Enforcer** · 10-07-2004, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by heypachuco

Um......
take alook around the Software & Software Development forums...

Or you could try <looks up to check which forum we are in>

**frodobaggins** · 10-07-2004, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by M^ck^y

and where are these softwares found?

OMG.

**antimatter** · 10-07-2004, 01:45 PM

**M^ck^y** · 10-07-2004, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by hijinks21

i've seen a ton of open source developers just stop doing anything for years.. it gets hard to get online when you have a new family and then start a new business.. He might be working 80 hours a week on his new business and want to spend sometime with his family. Take a look at headunit which is made to work like mediacar.. or checkout any of the other number of free frontends.. there are a ton of nice looking ones in development.

well i still wish i had ton of nice looking ones

**stevieg** · 10-08-2004, 02:41 AM

Originally Posted by M^ck^y

well i still wish i had ton of nice looking ones

Er, we do, headunit uses MediaCar skins, the most popular MediaCar skins have been ported to Frodoplayer... If you don't think there's enough nice looking front ends, why not start building your own - it's fair to say there is never enough interpretations of the 'perfect' front end.