Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

[Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker bennee com>]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM, eric casteleijn <thisfred gmail com> wrote:
>> Collaboration is the open source way :-)
>>
>> I'll have a look. No point re-implementing stuff if I don;t have to.
>> Any particular reason it's not been submitted for inclusion?
>
> For one thing, I have no idea where to submit it, for another, the
> rhythmbox version could use a little UI love first: for now most if not
> all of the configuration options have to be done in code, which is
> ridiculous, of course. Since I'm most interested in the Quod Libet
> support, that tends to get the most attention. The rhythmbox port
> started out as a proof of concept when I first thought of making the
> plugin player independent. It really did turn out to work well though,
> but it needs a little work to finish some details, and someone to keep
> it up to date I guess.

Fair enough. I'll wack your rhythmbox stuff into my tree (I'll put it
on github) and see if I can clean up the UI and config for it. If I
get somewhere I'm happy to push it through review and feedback from
the rb devs.

If I avoid messing with the core files and just concentrate on the
rhythmbox plugin stuff would there be any problems pushing them into
the src tree?

Keeping up to date would then just be a sync issue.

>
>> The next problem is figuring out a way to generate playlists on my
>> Rockbox player. I assume some sort of precalculation needs to be done.
>> However this is a problem for later.
>
> I also have code for that, although that's only a Quod Libet plugin for
> now. Have a look at mirage_miximize.py: basically it takes a list of
> songs, and puts them in the "ideal" order. I then export that as a
> playlist, or burn it to a CD, or whatever, by using what's already in
> Quod Libet. Should be trivial to make into a rhythmbox plugin I
>think.

Cool. As I said a problem for later :-)

>
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>



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