Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Magnatune catalog/purchasing plugin

[Adam Zimmerman <adam_zimmerman sfu ca>]

On Tue, 2006-20-06 at 11:23 +1000, James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> It might be worth asking if there is a compressed version of the .xml
> file available too, for example a gzipped version is ~270kb instead of
> 5.8Mb - and that would save a lot of bandwidth. If there is anything he
> needs to know about Rhythmbox which you don't feel up to answering, feel
> free to pass my address on.

I'll do that, because that would definitely speed things up a bit. I've
also reported the async bug, it's at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345351

> On a related note, we can probably do some other things to reduce the
> bandwidth. The most obvious would be caching the xml file as
> ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/magnatune/song_info.xml (or whatever) and only
> downloading it every now and then, and in the background. We could
> probably send the HTTP magic needed to get the "it hasn't changed"
> response, so we know not to update.

That's also a good idea anyway, in case someone manages to leave
rhythmbox open for a month or something, and doesn't get any new
artists. I'll work on that today. How would I get the plugin to do the
periodic check? Is there some rhythmbox timing object I register a
callback with?

Is there a better way to get the path of the rhythmbox directory than
hard-coding it?

> Rhythmbox supports attaching extra data, but it's not currently exposed
> to Python.
> 
> One method of doing it (which would be fairly simple) would be to give
> each entry a dictionary, accessable via "entry.data" or something - how
> does that sound?

That sounds perfect. I assume the entry gets passed to whatever handler
I have for the entry view's show-popup signal.

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