Re: Future direction of DMAP plugin

["Juan A. Suarez Romero" <jasuarez igalia com>]

On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 22:08 -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> > > Now that I am writing my own application, it seems like it might be
> > > more convenient/consistent if the DMAP plugin imposed some
> > > (artificial,
> > > with respect to the DMAP protocol itself) structure on the media it
> > > finds. That is, I like the way the Jamendo plugin presents Artists,
> > > Albums, Feeds; then a list of each; and then the songs themselves.
> > >
> > > Would it make sense if I modified the DMAP plugin to behave more like
> > > Jamendo?
>  
> > For me, it would make sense.
> >
> > Also, you can still allow the flat list through the search: doing a
> > search of a NULL text means "search all the content". If a source
> > implements it, it just return the list of all media.
>
> Please see below for an initial patch. With this patch, the DMAP plugin
> will present: 
>
>       (Albums, Artists) -> 
>       (Album_1, Album_2, ..., Album_n) or (Artist_1, ...) -> 
>       (Track_1, Track_2, ..., Track_n)


Do you mind to file a bug and attach the patch? Thanks!

        J.A.