Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] features in current cvs

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:02 -0500, Matthew Nicholcon wrote:
> My question is this: via plaugins (python) is it possible to make
> changes/additions to the UI? I have some experiance writting some
> python (for personal use) that would discover the currently playing
> song, find its cover art on amazon, and do something with it. in this
> case, i would have it store it somewhere, and somehow make a
> connection/refrence between the file/db entry and teh art assosciated
> (or, it could be written to the id3 tag), and, hopefully display it. 

As a follow-up, CVS now has all the python bindings necessary to make a
art display plugin in Python.

In about 20 minutes I whipped up a dodgy art display plugin, that looks
for an image called "folder.jpg" in the same directory as the playing
track. Patch is attached to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307848, and a screenshot is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctau/120145687/.


If you (or anyone else) want to take this and do Amazon lookup, art
management, and all the other cool stuff, please go ahead - everyone
will love you for it.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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