Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Podcast problem

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin wh9 net>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:09:56PM +1000, James Doc Livingston wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:02 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> > 
> > I'd really like to drop the current podcast parser code and use
> > something sensible like feedparser (http://feedparser.org/) instead.
> 
> That library looks fairly nice.
> 
> It would probably mean re-writing the podcast code as a Python plugin,
> but that would let us fix some of the insanities of the existing code,
> and turning it into a plugin would be good anyway.

Converting the podcast code into a python plugin was part of the plan.

> I guess we'd need to actually do the work to allow plugins to have
> on-disk db entries (but that needs doing anyway) or putting them in
> their own podcast.xml db (with some upgrade magic).

I've got this implemented somewhere, along with a mostly-working iradio
plugin.  The only thing that doesn't work yet is changing the displayed
song title when a new title appears in the stream.