Re: [gnomoradio-devel] Rhythmbox integration

[Dave Fancella]

Heh, I shouldn't be reading email this late.  I have a tendency to reply to 
everything.  ;)

On Friday 10 September 2004 11:50 pm, Jim Garrison wrote:
> Hi Daniele,
>
> The goal of Gnomoradio from the very beginning has been to create a
> cross-platform music player that shares file in a way that is integrated
> with the user interface.  At some point I would like to integrate more
> with Gnome, which probably means integrating with Rhythmbox.  However,
> right now, by integrating with Rhythmbox, we will be depending on more
> software which is not portable to environments like Windows.  I would be
> very happy if somebody did take the back end code and integrated it into
> Rhythmbox, but it is not my biggest priority at the moment.

I would suggest, in my armchairish fashion, working on getting the filesharing 
portion (as discussed elsewhere) building as a shared library, and then 
looking into what it would take to make it work with Rhythmbox (whatever that 
is, KDE user here).  The main reason I would suggest that is because I've 
already written a media player in wxPython (well, it's an alarm clock, but 
intended to grow into a media player, and not far from it already), and 
integrating filesharing into that (or writing a new media player from 
scratch, not a big deal) would be a fast path to cross-platform.  From there 
I'd just need testers on Windows and Mac OS X, and a few programmers would be 
nice.  ;)

The main issue there is something you're up against already using libao, and 
that's that libao is the only cross-platform music player with Python 
bindings.  I could use PyGame for a media player, but then I couldn't put 
neato plugins that work directly on the audio stream.  (I've looked pretty 
thoroughly into this, and the best solution looks to be to wrap PortAudio and 
make python bindings for it, and I intend to do it at some point anyway.  My 
media playing interface in the alarm clock should easily allow me to make 
that change without hurting anything else)

Anyway, that's my worthless two pennies.

Dave

> If you could, please outline the features that you feel are missing in
> order of priority.  I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> As for downloaded songs, they are stored in ~/.rainbow-cache with rather
> cryptic filenames at the moment.  The filenames will become more natural
> in version 0.15.  However, they are indexed in the XML file
> ~/.rainbow-db.xml.
>
> I'm thinking it might be a good idea to add "local filename" to the
> properties window.  At first, I wanted to hide as much of the file
> sharing implementation as possible from the user, but in this case that
> it would be very convenient to have without making it much more
> complicated.  Let me know what you think.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 04:40, daniele wrote:
> > Hi! I've been using gnomoradio since 3 days ago, and I see many features
> > are missing.
> > Isn't it possible to integrate the gnomoradio concepts into Rhythmbox,
> > that is a quite mature application? It would be grat to control all the
> > aspects of music in a single app (like winamp for win).
> >
> > Another question. Where do the downloaded traks are saved? I'd like to
> > burn 2-3 of them into a CD, but I don't know where to find them on my HD.
> > Thanks,
> > daniele
> >
> >
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