Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Python plugins as Sources

[Tom Parker <palfrey tevp net>]

Adam Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-14-11 at 17:54 +0100, Tom Parker wrote:
> > Any pointers on where to find more detailed information, or at least 
> > more detailed examples?
>
> If you check out the CVS version of rhythmbox, the Magnatune plugin
> seems to fit what you need. It's pretty simple so far as the adding
> songs to a source bit goes. You can also look in the mailing list
> archives from back in May when I was first writing it, and getting a lot
> of help.

Thanks! That's a lot of help. I've now gotten as far as being able to 
add songs correctly to my new source, but I've still got a few problems 
which I can't see a solution to from the Magnatune sources

1) I'm aiming towards being able to fix 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328526 ("Add metadata cache 
for audio players"), which means I need to get hold of entries to store. 
I'm using add_uri_with_type from the db to avoid doing the heavy lifting 
of setting artist/title/album myself, but this means I can't seem to get 
the entry references back. entry_lookup_by_location doesn't appear to be 
doing the right thing. Anything I hand to it gets me a None back. I've 
tried this both from my plugin, and from the python console with a url 
of a file not on the media player device. I've tried both with and 
without "file:///" stuff on the beginning.

2) Couldn't seem to get the debug stuff working. Ended up hacking in my 
own debug function which looks like the following:

def debug(*args):
	print >>sys.__stderr__,"gps err: ",args

Using rb._debug did nothing at all... and I've just realised why. D'oh.. 
Should have switched on the -D flag.

Thanks for the help, I should hopefully have a working version of this 
to show soon enough....

Tom Parker