Re: [Banshee-List] Thinking about audiobooks

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:44 PM, David Nielsen <gnomeuser gmail com> wrote:
> Something has been on my mind for a while now, I happen to like audiobooks
> and yet no player really seems to handle them well.
>
> The typical scenerio would be buying an audiobook on CD, then importing it
> into Banshee. This however leads to several uncomfortable situations:
>
> 1) The audiobook is processed by mirage taking up CPU time.
> 2) The audiobook is added as music, unknown music as typically nobody has
> entered musicbrainz data.

There is a bug filed for creating a new Audiobooks library source:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524921

I've actually started working on it (so far nothing too useful other
than a split-out "Audiobooks, etc" library source):
http://gitorious.org/projects/banshee/repos/mainline/logs/audiobooks_etc

Definitely feel free to branch that or master and keep working on it -
eg a custom view that would recognize books/lecture series as a single
unit or something, bookmarks, a rip helper for helping w/ the metadata
(which often isn't available from MB), etc.

Probably good to keep the discussion mostly on the above bug (and file
new ones as appropriate).

Thanks!

Gabriel