On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 21:09 +0200, Tom Parker wrote: > Hi. I've been following Rhythmbox CVS development for a while, and with > all the renewed effort being put into plugins I'd like to offer my > little effort. I have a few albums where the auto-search isn't coming up > with the right album, and so therefore I wanted the option to be able to > manually select a cover, but without having to go outside the Rhythmbox > GUI.
This is one of the big art-related things we're lacking, thanks for looking at it. > I've therefore taken a few hints from the Lyrics plugin and implemented > a "Cover Art" pane for the Song info. You can type in some terms on a > text entry box in this pane, press return and it'll show you what > results those terms get from Amazon. If you see the right album, you > can double click on the relevant row and it'll get set as the album > for the current song. I've attached a patch to current Rhythmbox CVS > to implement all of this as a patch to the artdisplay plugin. I'm not entirely sure that the song-info window is the best place for this, because the art is specific to the album not the song. I think we should have similar Album Info windows (and artist too). By default they could have a tracklist, and some statistics about your playing habits on the album. Plugins could add * Display and setting the art [cover art plugin] * Display global last.fm statistics, and related artists/albums [last.fm plugin] * Get info about the album from last.fm/wikipaedia/google/whatever [the artist/album info plugin Alex Lancast has been working on] I'm not sure exactly how the user should get to the album info windows though. Possible options are: * context menu item on the browsers * link from song info window * return of the clickable artist/album names in the header * something else. > Provisos: the UI sucks (really needs some buttons and hints in there) > and its method of tying into AmazonCoverArtSearch and CoverArtDatabase > is a lot of a hack right now, but it's a reasonable first effort. I was a bit confused by having to press enter just to use the default search, and double-clicking on the one I wanted (I selected it and pressed close at first). Nothing we can't fix though. Also, I get an error about the undefined method "get_art" when I use the next/previous buttons. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- > Even when Gatso's are used soley for speed-detection, they still take > multiple pictures, just to prove it wasn't receiving a rouge signal Well, if there's a measurable red-shift, the driver is definitely going too fast. -- David Taylor, James Riden, asr _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
