soc project introduction

[Alex Launi <alex launi gmail com>]

Hi everyone. I'm Alex Launi, I'm the Banshee summer of code student. My project will be to improve the Banshee Now Playing source to show more than just a picture of album art, and the song title.

I'm 22, an American, and a senior at Temple University in Philadelphia working on a BA in computer science, with a minor in philosophy.

If you're familiar with Banshee then you're probably familiar with the 'context pane'. The context pane is what gives you last.fm info, wikipedia, etc. Information relative to the currently playing track. My project is to essentially move the context pane to the Now Playing source, and expand on it to allow for media type specific sources (video specific, music specific, etc.), and to modify the existing now playing sources to work in the new now playing context viewer.

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--Alex Launi