Why did we release this ?
MP is an opensource project
Perhaps you have read the requests from the community that they would like to get more involved.
People's opinion was that we where not open enough and not sharing enough information about whats happening
This is precisely what we're doing now.
By releasing an ALPHA version of MP-II we give the community the chance to play with it and give us feedback about whats good and whats bad. Also developers and skinners now get the first chance to look at the new stuff
By releasing the alpha this early we can listen to the community and change things needed. This would be much harder when MP-II was in a final stage.
As this is alpha software you cannot expect that it is a complete-finished mediacenter application which can compete with other applications like MP-1 for example. As said things will indeed change because of several reasons. One of those reasons is the feedback we're expecting from the community.
Sure we could have posted some videos or screenshots, but i think most people here like to play with the
new stuff themselves and a screenshot of video is not as nice as the real bits ;-)
If you expected that MP-II was already in a final-release state, then i'm sorry
I think the team clearly stated that its premature and in an alpha state in every discussion and announcement we have made before...
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