2009/8/2 Joe Bain <mrjoeb...@gmail.com>: > 2009/8/1 Jamie Nicol <ja...@thenicols.net>: >> Hey guys >> >> First of all I love rhythmbox. It's by far the best music player I've ever >> used, so I was thinking of ways I could help make it even better. Whenever I >> have friends round to my flat and we're listening to music, eventually >> somebody will want to play a song which I don't have in my library. Youtube >> is great for this as there's loads of music on it, but it means pausing >> rhythmbox and loading up epiphany. And by doing this you can't make a play >> cue or have it shuffle after playing the chosen song etc. But I figured that >> totem has a youtube plugin, so why can't rhythmbox. >> >> I'm not exactly a fantastic programmer but I gave it a shot. It's got quite >> a few bugs I'm aware of, and probably loads more that I'm not, but it's >> useable, and I think it shows promise. >> >> It's far from complete. I plan on fixing the bugs, tidying up the UI, trying >> to add thumbnails of the results, and a few more things. But anyway, here's >> what I've done so far. I think even in its current state it's useful, but >> I'd love to know what you guys think. Dropping it into >> ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins should work. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jamie >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhythmbox-devel mailing list >> rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel >> >> > > That's a really cool idea, and it works well. I'm not sure if there > would be any legal problems with something like this. It certainly > feels like youtube wouldn't approve, but then like you said, totem has > a youtube plugin. > > I'd be interested to see some improvements too. It's certainly useful > and it works well now but it's a bit bare. It could benefit from a few > extras, info like descriptions and ratings, maybe a 'browse' option, > something to let the user know that a song is loading, maybe a link to > the youtube page. > > But yeah, good job, I know exactly what you mean about listening to > songs on youtube so it's definitely very handy and completely usable > in it's current state. > > Joe >
Maybe I spoke too soon. I get a segmentation fault when I try to pause the song. Joe _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
