Re: GNOME Music needs you!

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Fri, 2015-12-25 at 22:05 +0000, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> So, follow up - what needs to be done right now?  I assume we want to
> start
> advertising for either a maintainer or to work on the newcomer bugs?

I've been playing around with GNOME Music recently. This app is
*really* nice --
and I'm nearly ready to switch to it from Rhythmbox.

I see just a few problems:

* There's often a small delay when opening it before music appears. Not
a big
  deal, but the entire UI is blank during this time, which is a big
deal. It
  needs to show a spinner until it's ready.
* There's a horrible hang the first time I run the app, I guess while
it's
  indexing. That needs to not hang the UI thread. I know Python has a
GIL, but
  a GIL doesn't mean you're stuck with unresponsive UI.
* There's no way to shuffle through my entire library. This is almost
always how
  I use Rhythmbox, so I won't switch to GNOME Music until that's
possible.
  I wrote a quick patch to add an All Music playlist, but I can't test
it
  because of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759751

Anyone want to help fix these?

Michael