Re: [Banshee-List] Request for developer information

[Chris Howie <cdhowie gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Fred Worms<mworms neuf fr> wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> As a developer of an application for talking digital books (please see
> http://talkingdocs.org ) I am less and less satisfied with the delopment
> tools presently used. I therefore want to start a Linux version. What I need
> is an audio player (mp2, mp3; wmv, .... ) and a programming interface with a
> few simple functions, specified below.
>
> I wonder whether Banshee could be a good choice. I would appreciate
> suggestions as to the player and also as to suitable low-cost Linux
> development tools. (I did lots of Unix development work in the 80's and
> 90's, using 4GL's and C). Thanks in advance for your kind replies!
>
> Fred Worms
>
>
> Start playing file X at beginning
> Start playing file X at time T in msecs
> Get current time of file X that is playing
> Get duration in msecs for file X that is playing
> Pause, resume and stop playing.

Banshee sure will let addins do all of these, and quite a bit more!
As I understand it, there is currently not a lot of API documentation
available, but I believe somebody is working on writing some.

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Chris Howie
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