Re: External Plugin and sort sequence of tracks

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> I'm using the most recent release (including the fix to bug 720672) so 
> rygel should be passing through the sort sequence from the external 
> plugin unchanged.  My DBus server is passing the items through in track 
> sequence - and if I use the UPnPlay Android app with the "let server 
> decide sequence" option the tracks appear in the correct order.
>
> My hypothesis is that there's code in the Stream 63i that checks the 
> upnp class of the container and sorts by name (or requests the items 
> sorted by name) if the container isn't 
> object.container.album.musicAlbum.  I've used uPnP-inspector to browse 
> the same album shared from rygel and minidnla; uPnP-inspector displays 
> the tracks in the correct order and the only meaningful difference 
> between the two servers is the upnp class of the container (with rygel 
> it's just object.container, with minidnla it's 
> object.container.album.musicAlbum).

Sounds like a valid hypothesis.

> I've seen via http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.rygel/432 
> that there has been discussion about extending the MediaServer2 spec to 
> allow containers to be identified as albums - is anyone still looking at 
> this or has it been set aside for lack of time? Presumably all that 
> needs to be done is to retrieve the new DBus property (if it is set) and 
> then amend the upnp_class of the container object appropriately.

This fell of the table somehow.

> 2.  I can code, but I've not worked on a multi-sourcefile project like 
> rygel for 20+ years (the last IDE I used was Visual C++ 1.0). I know my 
> way around Linux but have never done serious software building on it.  
> And I have no experience with vala of course.  So - (a) are the build 
> instructions on the gnome wiki for rygel still up to date?, and (b) can 
> you recommend an IDE?  What development tools work best for you?

a) No, they're slightly outdated.

b) I'm currently using gvim because I couldn't find anything that has a
really nice workflow.