[Rhythmbox-devel] Playing local files outside the library

["Thomas Zander" <thomas e zander googlemail com>]

Hi,

Every now and then it comes very handy to just play a file in a local folder
without importing it into the music library. This is especially the case when
one doesn't intend to keep the file forever or wants to listen to it first
before deciding whether to keep it or not.
Other popular media players (e.g. exaile) offer a special source (or whatever
the equivalent to RBSource is called) for just this reason.
I have submitted a tiny python plugin that allows RB to do the same:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524920

If you like, go ahead and test it. Simply dumping the archive into
~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/
should be sufficient. When you start RB the next time, it should be
included in the plugins list.

Cheers,
Riggs