Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] rhythmbox interface

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:26, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:00, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> 
> > Things we have now, that will probably be moved out:
> > ====================================================
> > 1. Audio CD. Got this in because we had the views stuff, but it prolly
> > belongs in a separate app. [For ripping we would ideally have nautilus
> > support browsing audiocds, and support copying oggs off it]
> > 2. Internet radio. Same as above.
> 
> I don't really agree with putting stuff in a separate app.  First, I
> don't want to have to reimplement stuff like visualization.  Second,
> Rhythmbox offers lots of possibilities for integration, because it's
> dedicated to music, as opposed to nautilus. For example, both CD and
> iradio could make use of playlists. Even though conceptually an iradio
> song never ends, it would still be a nice way to organize your music. 
> Especially if we get something like "vplaylists", like iTunes has.  I
> think it would be very useful to rate my internet radio stations, and
> then have a vplaylist which just shows me the 4 and 5 star songs, etc.

Having radio stations in playlists is crack imho, I mean, playlists are
queues of songs - and radio streams never end. If you want to 'bookmark'
some streams, we need a bookmark mechanism - but not use vplaylists.
(bookmarks/favorites/whatever are another reason why i think a separate
app would be good, you can do that without introducing clutter).

As for visualization, this is really easy to do - monkeymedia just has a
call that creates a widget with a vis plugin in it for you. And if it
were convenient, we could even make a librb that is shared between the
different apps.

Cheers

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