> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Bertrand Lorentz
> <
bertrand lorentz gmail com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:08 AM, John Moore <
jcwmoore gmail com> wrote:
>>> I have put together an extension to allow Banshee to be a front for an
>>> Ampache media server. It's nothing overly complicated, simply lists
>>> artists, albums, play lists and songs from Ampache and allows you to play
>>> the songs. I would like to get the extension merged into the community
>>> extensions and to get some feed back on the extension. The source is
>>> available in gitorious
>>> <<
http://gitorious.org/~jcwmoore/banshee-community-extensions/ampache-banshee-community-extensions>>
>>> I'm not sure what is the preferred way to add an extension to the community
>>> extensions project, or if there is one. Any way the source is out there and
>>> I'd appreciate any feed back or suggestions. Thanks
>>
>> Cool, thanks for the heads up.
>> I've just started a 4 day week-end, so I'll probably have a go at
>> merging it into the main git repo in the coming days.
>> The Makefile.am files seem to be outdated, but I'll probably be
>> fiddling with the build anyway, so I'll fix it while I'm at it.
>> I'll keep you posted if I have any other issues.
>
> John,
> I've just merged your extension into git master, and I've added you to
> the banshee-community-extensions team on gitorious. You should now be
> able to push your commits to the main repository.
>
> I was too lazy too install an Ampache server, so I didn't test much of
> the actual features : the extension loads and tries to connect, but I
> couldn't go any further.
>
> I've fixed a few small things here and there, but don't be afraid by
> the number of lines I changed : for some reason a lot of the lines had
> DOS endings, so I converted those to UNIX line endings.
>
> A few random ideas/suggestions that crossed my mind :
> 1/ The URLs used assume that the Ampache server is always accessed as
> http//servername/ampache/...
> I'm not sure it's always the case, some people might use another
> prefix : http//servername/music/...
>
> 2/ Maybe it would be better to put the connection info (server, user
> and password) as preferences for the Ampache source. The idea is to
> have something similar to what the Last.fm extension does. This would
> free up some space in the UI.
>
> 3/ The extension is using a TreeView to display the track list. I
> wonder if it would be possible to use our custom ListView widget
> instead ?
>
>
> Thank you for working on this extension, and I'm looking forward to
> future improvements !
>
> --
> Bertrand Lorentz
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