Re: [Banshee-List] Re:Using the monodevelop solution (Aaron Bockover)

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Matt,

This is exactly why I wanted intentions discussed on the list. Jon Lech
Johansen [1], who works for mp3tunes.com, has been working on this
plugin for Banshee.

I am not sure of its status, but a few weeks ago I know he was using it
successfully. I'll ask him more about it. 

(Or Jon, if you're on this list, perhaps you could fill in the
details :)

Cheers,
Aaron

[1] http://nanocrew.net/


On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 14:29 -0500, Matt Philmon wrote:
> Hey Aaron,
> 
> I've recently signed up for a Digital Locker at mp3tunes.com. At work
> we run Windows 2000/XP and since I also own an iPod I use iTunes. My
> library is quite extensive so I purchased my locker for several
> reasons... but mostly because that my entire library stays synced with
> my external "locker". At any rate, one of the features you get with a
> locker is streaming support through a Web Interface, through iTunes
> "shares", and there is now an SDK as well. 
> 
> My goal is to create a Banshee plugin that will connect to my Digital
> Locker, retrieve my library contents, and stream playback through
> Banshee (like iTunes already does). Now, I'm not sure just how far I
> can really go with this. I've got years of development experience
> under my belt... but that's under Windows and quite honestly, I've
> found the development learning curve on Linux to be rather difficult.
> I had hoped monodevelop might be the answer to that so I was rather
> excited to see that banshee svn included a monodevelop
> project/solution file. I'm still going to give it my best shot but
> we'll just have to see how it turns out. The actual SDK itself is
> quite simple to use so this should be pretty easy to realize if I
> understand all the underpinnings correctly. I have another goal of
> creating a Tivo HME application to do the same. 
> 
> Matt Philmon
>  
> 
>         Finally, I am asking anyone who is writing a plugin, or plans
>         to do so, 
>         to announce their idea to the list in case someone else is
>         already
>         working on or planning to work on a similar plugin. We have
>         already had
>         two development collisions like this (two different people
>         working on a
>         Podcasting plugin and two different people working on an
>         Airtunes
>         plugin), because of a lack of public communication.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Aaron
> 
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