[Banshee-devel-list] External track metadata (recommendations, WP, etc)

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

I'm sure you all at least skimmed this on the main list (was: [Fwd:
[Banshee-List] Fwd: Patch for a warning])

We've talked in the past about ways to present external metadata for
tracks; right now it's pretty much just recommendations plugin and
wikipedia plugin (which has been a train wreck codebase since the start,
but useful nonetheless).  I'm sure as time goes on, folks will find more
bits of external data they'd like to see and will get implemented as
plugins.

Mickael Renault posted this simple mockup to the list a week or two ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32203431 N00/325029400/

I know there was talk over the summer (or perhaps at the boston summit?)
of something of similar functionality.  I think it'd be a good goal
before we hit the 0.12 series to implement this so that we can set up
plugins to make use of it.

Regardless of what we decide on, we need to implement it in the core and
then engineer plugins so that they take advantage of it.

I'm hoping to hear back from some of you who have other ideas on how we
can implement this, and then get it done!  If I don't hear back from
anyone, I will probably hack at something like the screenshot above.

Cheers,

Patrick




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• From: "Mickael Renault" <mickael renault gmail com>
• To: banshee-list gnome org
• Subject: [Banshee-List] Fwd: Patch for a warning
• Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:28:33 +0100

Hi,

I have done a little mockup to show my vision of an unified interface for the context plugins :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32203431 N00/325029400/

Any comment ?

Mickaël

ps : I can try to implement it.

2006/12/14, Trick van Staveren < trick vanstaveren us>:

Mickael,

(banshee-list subscribers, read below for context)

There was discussion some months ago about creating a unified interface
for plugins that grab data like this, and making it much more
presentable.  It'd be some sort of dialog or pane that would aggregate
extra data from any installed plugins and display it intelligently.
However, to the best of my knowledge, no one has started work on it.

Do you have any good ideas for interface design?  If you could elaborate
- or better yet - draw a mockup (gimp or by hand, whatever works for
you) and send it out and we'll see what folks think!  If we come up with
a good interface design that a good handful of people like, it will be
much easier to implement and someone is more likely to start working on
it.

Cacheing of various things can be done pretty easily, but I'd rather get
the interface fixed and working first.

I'm sending this to the banshee list as well, make sure your replies are
sent there.  If you're not on the list, head to
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list to get joined up :)

Cheers,

Patrick



On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 02:47 +0100, Mickael Renault wrote:
> Thanks for the commit,
>
> i have a 'big' problem with the interface of WP because i love use the
> recommandation plugin too. And when they are both active, i can't see
> my playlist because they use the whole space. I think that it could be
> cool to merge these plugins because they have more or less the same
> goal. Or aperhaps  better solution could be to add a "notebook" for
> the plugins in banshee.
>
> PS : Have you planned to implement a cache for the lyrics ?
>
> 2006/12/14, Trick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>:
>         Mickael,
>
>         This is committed.
>
>         Thanks for sending the patch!  I've been meaning to get around
>         to fixing
>         up this plugin and integrating with some of our other info
>         gathering
>         plugins, but it just hasn't happened.
>
>         I appreciate the effort.  If you are working on any other
>         modifications
>         to the WP plugin, let me know and we can get you subversion
>         access set
>         up so that you can make commits yourself :)
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Patrick
>
>
>
>         On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 00:18 +0100, Mickael Renault wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > I've made a little patch to fix the warning a the
>         initialisation of
>         > the plugin.
>         >
>         > Commit ?
>         >
>         > Mickael Renault
>         --
>
>         --
>         Patrick "Trick" van Staveren
>         http://trick.vanstaveren.us
>
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