Re: [Banshee-List] How-To: Create Banshee Plugin for Media Drive

[Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com>]

Well you'll need to know C#, you'll need to know where the HDD keeps
your media (music, videos, audiobooks, etc), you'll need to know how
to identify the device from other mounted filesystems... You'll need
to know the layout of all the database and metadata stuff (both for
banshee and the device), you'll need a program which generates the
needed format of voice prompts... Also you need to decide how much of
this should be an extension, how much should patch already existing
extensions, and how much should be core Banshee.

You'll probably need to know much more than that (and tbh I only
skim-read your email - shame on me), hopefully someone more
knowledgable can help you in a wider, or more specific, way (if you
want specifics you'll need to ask specific questions).

Hope I helped a little bit - I can't of helped much

On 22 February 2011 20:32, rfkrocktk <rfkrocktk gmail com> wrote:
>
> I'm one of the few, proud owners of a PhatNoise Car System. It's basically a
> hard drive which syncs with your computer, docks in your car in a dedicated
> machine, and it allows one to control hard drive playback via stock audio
> controls.
>
> I'm a developer and I'd like to build a plugin for Banshee, as Banshee is
> basically the best media player available on Linux. Up until this point,
> I've had to virtualize XP to run the manager software, as it's pretty
> complex and really ridiculous (ie: it don't work on Wine). Where should I
> start? I need to basically detect and register the device as a portable
> media device when docked (USB), and provide synchronization functionality.
>
> Synchronization involves the following things:
>
> 1. Generation of a SQLite database describing the available tracks, genres,
> artists, albums, etc. with file paths (on the drive) to where each file
> exists, along with file paths to the generated voice prompts. (see point 2)
> 2. Generation of voice prompts for each genre, artist, album, and
> "playlist." Since the system operates basically without a display in the
> car, the names of the artist and albums you are scrolling through are read
> out loud as voice prompts generated on sync.
> 3. Copy media files to the actual hard disk over USB.
>
> How can I create a plugin to "provide" this functionality into Banshee? I
> just need a starting point to get going :)
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