Re: [Banshee-List] browse local music using tag clouds

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

Both of these ideas (extensible views and tag clouds) are great - I'd
love to see them.  I've even done some work toward the former a few
occasions - but I feel like I usually fall into doing too complicated
a solution.  The source-contents branch in gitorious
(http://gitorious.org/banshee/mainline/commits/source-contents)
contains that work.  Though it is for replacing the entire
SourceContents, a related concept is letting what browsers/filters
exist be configurable and extensible (see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540873).

I'm not working on either of these of late, so feel free to dive in,
try that branch out, or work on your own approach to it.

Gabriel

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Mathijs Dumon <mathijsken hotmail com> wrote:
> When I started developing ClutterFlow I had also hoped Banshee would provide
> an easy way to extend it's 'views'. For now extensions are mostly limited to
> sources that have their own specific contents (or views). So plus one by me
> for this suggestion!
>
> I think it could be easy enough if you'd make a wrapper around the abstract
> FilteredListSourceContents class (in the Banshee.Sources.Gui namespace). The
> wrapper could be a Gtk Container providing a simple bar with toggle buttons
> having icons representing the different registered views (like in iTunes).
> The registering and unregistering could be handled by a service (say
> FilteredListSourceContentsService), and the classes should ofcourse
> implement the ISourceContents interfaces. Sources could even set a property
> that restricts the available classes based on implemented interfaces.
> I've read somewhere you were changing the album browser to display tiles
> instead of list, is this drop-in replacement of the AlbumListView or will we
> be able to choose between the two visualisations, or as developer extend
> this?
>
> kind regards,
> Mathijs
>
>> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:43:37 -0800
>> From: fernan aguero gmail com
>> To: Banshee-list gnome org
>> Subject: [Banshee-List] browse local music using tag clouds
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to request a feature ... would love to be able to browse my local
>> collection of music in different ways, not just by artist, album or song
>> ...
>> why not use tags and build tag clouds?
>>
>> Tags could be genres, countries or well, any word really. Maybe also use
>> tags from other places (like from my last.fm account?)
>>
>> At last.fm they are beta testing boffin, which does something like this.
>> There is some source code available, maybe worth a look?
>>
>> http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/11/introducing-boffin-lastfms-music-knowledge-meets-your-mp3-collection
>>
>> Cheers, and thanks for a great player!
>>
>> --
>> fernan
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