This week I have been working on updating the scrobbling (submitting the names of songs you play to last.fm) code to use the most recent API. The only difference between the old API and the new one is the authentication procedure. Previously you logged in using your username and password, but now you are instead taken to the last.fm website to authorise rhythmbox from there. To do this the user interface had to be changed. I replaced the existing username and password text entries with a button which takes you to the website. This is located in the plugin's configuration dialog, and I'm not entirely happy with that. The good news though, is that the code does work. Check it out from http://gitorious.org/rb-lastfm and give it a shot!
For next week I plan to: 1. Sort the user interface out. I think the best option seems to be to move the login widgets away from the configuration dialog and to the Last.fm section of the main window. We can even embed a webkitgtk view there so the user wont have to leave Rhythmbox at all. I also plan to move the "statistics" view here, as I think this would be a better location than the preferences dialog. 2. Add support for Libre.fm. Although this will be complicated somewhat by the fact Libre.fm doesn't yet support the newest scrobbling API. You know, the one I just spent last week working on! But oh well. It'll keep me busy. The biggest problem I'm seeing myself having is using git. I understand the commands and the concept, it's more knowing when to use it. Despite doing a reasonable amount of programming I've never used version control on a project before. I find myself missing commiting unrelated parts of code together, or contradicting my previous commit with my newest one. My git log must be an absolute mess. It's surely something I'll get better at as I get used to it. One of my goals for this next week is to think before I commit, and plan more in advance. Hopefully this'll improve the situation. :) So all in all the week has been a success: Rhythmbox can now scrobble using the newest API. Questions, comments, etc, just ask. Cheers, Jamie _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
