Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] RhythmPnP Plugin

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Andrea Del Signore <sejerpz tin it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm Andrea and I'm the author of RhythmPnP plugin and this message is to
> see if there's some interest from the Rhythmbox developers to include
> RhythmPnP in the Rhythmbox's standard plugin set.
>
> RhythmPnP is a plugin written in Vala that adds to Rhythmbox the ability
> to play music from an Universal Plug and Play media server.

We already have a UPnP plugin, but that doesn't mean we won't consider
replacing it. If your plugin provides the same features, is of at
least the same quality code-wise, and is more actively maintained,
then we'll consider it.

How does your plugin relate to the rhythmbox-gupnp plugin here:
http://gitorious.org/gupnp/rhythmbox-gupnp ?

> May be there's an overlap with the coherence plugin functionality, but
> I'm not sure because it never worked on my system. One thing that I'm
> sure is that the coherence plugin will act as a media server too, while
> RhythmPnP plugin is just a "client": an UPnP digital media player.

We'd want to have both client and server UPnP support in some form, so
without a replacement server plugin, it'd be hard to justify adding
your plugin.

One thing in favour of your plugin is that the libraries you're using
are all part of the GNOME desktop and external dependencies.

On that note, since Rygel has been accepted into the desktop suite,
I'd be happy with a plugin exposing the Rhythmbox music library
through Rygel rather than an in-process server.

> My main intent is to support the Rygel Media Server, that is also the
> main server I used to do the testing, but I think that every UPnP server
> (version 2) that has search capability should work with RhythmPnP.
>