Re: [Tracker] Tracker to do list

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

AMAZIGH Aneglus wrote:
>     Python:
>
>     Rhythmbox has some nice python plugin extensions for getting cover art
>     and lyrics for songs. It would be cool if we could modify these so
>     tracker can get this stuff too automatically when files are indexed.
>
>  
> I will give a give a look at this task.

great thanks!

>     Tracker does not and cannot use python directly but it can of course
>     call and spawn stand-alone programs written in any language.
>
>     So two command line apps in python that take a no of parameters in (not
>     sure which but could be artist, album and title?) and the final paramter
>     should be the filename to store the lyrics or cover album png in
>     (all of
>     which tracker will supply
>
>  
> what "a no of parameters in..." means ?

Command line parameters

so tracker would spawn something like "GetCoverArt.py -artist param1 
-album param2 -title param3 -outputfile param4"

>  
> we may also provide a way to check the cover by the user, or at least 
> provide a way to 3rd parties program to request other covers
>  
> APIs that I find useful:
> - check change
> - request a list of covers, args: artist/album/track...
> - check

yes that would be cool too (via commandline switches)



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