[Rhythmbox-devel] update the database outside the main program?

2021-02-23 Thread Lachlan via rhythmbox-devel
Hi all, I've been trying to re-import my library to do some more plugin work, the problem is that the import grinds to a halt really quickly after opening and tells me that the db is read only. (nfs share and a lot of files) When i was using RB full-time i used to edit the xml manually and run sc

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Plug-in no longer working since update on Manjaro

2019-08-31 Thread lachlan-00 via rhythmbox-devel
The list isn't very active as rhythmbox itself has been stable/unchanged for a long time now. That's good though because I find rhythmbox to be extremely stable (outside of plugin issues) The issues with plugins are usually plugin/distro specific issues as well so most of the time it's probably

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Does PlaylistManager allow a plugin to 'monitor' a playlist folder?

2017-12-11 Thread lachlan-00
apps on your library it's a risk). Here's my plugin: https://gith ub.com/petko10/rhythmbox-plugin-playlists-import-export On 11/12/17 04:41, lachlan-00 wrote: > If it's possible I was going to write a plugin to allow the > following

[Rhythmbox-devel] Does PlaylistManager allow a plugin to 'monitor' a playlist folder?

2017-12-10 Thread lachlan-00
If it's possible I was going to write a plugin to allow the following Pick a folder to store playlists (eg ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/playlists) When the plugin loads it will search that folder for playlists. Once m3u's are found either create or update playlists.xml Add checks for mod time and a re

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Third party plugin page locked?

2017-10-22 Thread lachlan-00
> > If not, I've written a plugin to cache playback to a local file for > > importing into other places. > > The format is in the same tab separated format that last.fm used. > > https://github.com/lachlan-00/cache-fm > > > > Right now i use it in co

[Rhythmbox-devel] Third party plugin page locked?

2017-10-19 Thread lachlan-00
b.com/lachlan-00/cache-fm Right now i use it in conjunction with my ampache scripts to keep rhythmbox synced with the ratings/data from my ampache server instead of relying on last.fm for tracking.___ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Discussion as to whether community based external plugins could/should be in the official source-tree

2013-11-01 Thread Lachlan
Fileorganizer was creative commons when I took over. I'm not sure about it's gpl compatibility. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ I would relicense future code to gpl v3 if required since all my personal projects are gpl anyway. I'm just not familiar about the implications of such a

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Updated FileOrganizer for 2.99

2013-07-03 Thread Lachlan
> Hi - thanks for the update. > > Just to say - if you wish to keep backward compatibility, you may wish to > use the rb3compat layer I've written and used on a few plugins > Thanks, i'll check it out. ___ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gno

[Rhythmbox-devel] Updated FileOrganizer for 2.99

2013-07-01 Thread Lachlan
Hey everyone, I sat down and updated fileorganizer to python 3 and RB2.99+. [https://github.com/lachlan-00/rb-fileorganizer] Right now it works and organises music correctly, but I have to do more testing to make sure it's all working properly. If anyone else is having trouble adding t

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Use Case: download MP3, ~/Music is on nfs

2013-05-23 Thread Lachlan
Use the file organizer plugin. You can open in rhythmbox and should be able to organise the temporary file without any additional steps. Check the preferences about folder/file movement first as the default settings aren't good for those who use a generic download folder. https://live.gnome.org/

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] python3

2013-04-21 Thread Lachlan
This is in git tree now? I guess it's time to start using python 3... On 21/04/2013 6:44 PM, "Jonathan Matthew" wrote: > Since this went so well last time.. > > Rhythmbox now uses Python 3.x rather than 2.x for plugins. If you want > your python plugin to work with Rhythmbox 3.0 (which won't be

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Reset Rhythmbox

2013-02-16 Thread Lachlan
The database is just an xml file. /home/user/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml Just delete that. On 16/02/2013 6:46 PM, "Jim and Patsy Schurz" wrote: > Hi, > > I am sending this question to you as I have not received any response on > askubuntu.com for three weeks. > > How does one reset Rhyth

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox

2013-01-12 Thread Lachlan
https://code.launchpad.net/repeat-one-song On 12 January 2013 17:57, Jonathan Matthew wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sascha wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Rhythmbox is really great, expecially that you just have to type a word >> of the song you wanna play, press enter and it plays the song i

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feature request: ability to sync loved songs on Last.fm with songs in Rhythmbox

2012-11-22 Thread Lachlan
leted files that would explain the drop. https://github.com/lachlan-00/rb-mergeplays I might work on things a bit more but an 85% hit on questionable data seems about right to me for now. On 15 November 2012 06:20, Elias Assarsson wrote: > Interesting, I would appreciate that. rate5loved

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feature request: ability to sync loved songs on Last.fm with songs in Rhythmbox

2012-11-14 Thread Lachlan
I wrote some scripts to do that, not perfect by any means but they will do what you want. I haven't used it in forever so I'm not sure if it works with recent rb versions. http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/script-to-synchronize-all-your-lastfm.html https://launchpad.net/rb-mergeplays If that fits y

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] my suggestions

2012-10-30 Thread Lachlan
https://launchpad.net/rb-fileorganizer There are music stores available but I don't use them and I don't think they're what you want by the sounds of it. On Oct 31, 2012 6:45 AM, "Garrett Gaston" wrote: > I've tried Banshee, Clementine, Amarok, and several others but with no > luck handling my

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Q: Why cache embedded album art in ~/.cache/rhythmbox/album-art?

2012-06-12 Thread Lachlan
> > > Also, it doesn't seem to work right all the time. I didn't debug this, > > so the following observation could be mistaken, but it seems to me that > > when I play a new album for the first time, the cover art will only > > appear _after_ playing the first track. Why is this so? > > That could

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] 0.13.2 to 0.13.3 API change for plugins

2012-02-09 Thread Lachlan
selected_page is what you want. On Feb 10, 2012 1:39 PM, wrote: > One of my plugins works fine with pre 0.13 rhythmbox and I recently > upgraded to 0.13.3. > > Upon using 0.13.3 I have found that my plugin does not work on the > following line: > > shell.get_property("selected_source") > > and th

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] activating in gtk3

2012-01-08 Thread Lachlan
> What are you actually trying to do here? It looks like this would only > catch events received by the source that was selected when the plugin > was activated. Maybe you need to use 'notify::selected-page' signal on > the shell to track the active source. I think i'm doing this is all wrong, I w

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] upcoming release

2012-01-08 Thread Lachlan
On 9 January 2012 04:51, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Any tentative release notes you could share? The changelog in the preview file is well over 24000 lines after 12 months of development, but this this is part of the NEWS file. Overview of changes in Rhythmbox 2.95 "In Mind" ===

[Rhythmbox-devel] activating in gtk3

2012-01-03 Thread Lachlan
Once again i'm stumped porting to GTK3. I have no idea what to do when activating plugins using pygobject while trying to port my other plugin over. When i start rhythmbox the plugin fails to activate because there is no song selected. That part makes sense but I don't really have any understandin

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Location of last.fm/audioscrobbler credentials

2011-12-20 Thread Lachlan
se in one go seems like a better idea to me because once you're scrobbling to last.fm your playcounts are always going to match. Awesome work on the plugin though, works seamlessly. :) Lachlan ___ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@

[Rhythmbox-devel] force database/entry tag refresh

2011-12-15 Thread Lachlan
is i should update tags when i update entries. At the moment I'm using eyed3 to verify/update tags to v2.4. It would be better to use whatever rhythmbox does to update tags but i haven't looked into that yet. Cheers, Lachlan ___ rhythmbox-dev

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] db.entry_get changes for plugins

2011-11-30 Thread Lachlan
On 28 November 2011 17:39, Lachlan wrote: >> entry.__setattr__('LOCATION', 'file:///etc/etc/etc/etc.mp3') > > On further testing this code doesn't work for me, it actually was > creating a new entry in the database with just the new location. :( This wa

[Rhythmbox-devel] Just finished my first port to RB3!

2011-11-27 Thread Lachlan
ut i won't make a tarball for it until I've done some more testing. Thanks again for your help. I've really enjoyed working on this. Lachlan ___ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] db.entry_get changes for plugins

2011-11-24 Thread Lachlan
good for me too. > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Lachlan wrote: >> >> On 24 November 2011 18:55, Jonathan Matthew wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Lachlan wrote: >> >> So now that Debian testing is running git versions of Rhythmbox I&#

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] db.entry_get changes for plugins

2011-11-24 Thread Lachlan
On 24 November 2011 18:55, Jonathan Matthew wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Lachlan wrote: >> So now that Debian testing is running git versions of Rhythmbox I've >> been updating my plugin. >> >> So far i have it activating and the menu items are popul

[Rhythmbox-devel] db.entry_get changes for plugins

2011-11-24 Thread Lachlan
o the next one: self.db.entry_get(db_entry, rhythmdb.PROP_ALBUM) self.db.entry_get(db_entry, RB.RhythmDBPropType.ALBUM) When i run this though i get told that entry_get() takes 4 arguments (3 given) I think this has to do with self.db but i'm unsure about where to

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Modify the interface

2011-11-23 Thread Lachlan
On 24 November 2011 13:11, Aaron Mendo wrote: > Hi, I wonder if you could modify rhythmbox interface so that it is > something like this: > > http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9318/rhythmboxmodify.png > > It is a design I did. > > What do you think?. You mean like this? http://www.omgubuntu.co.

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] converting python plugins to work with git

2011-05-26 Thread Lachlan
Thanks, I've been scouring the code changes in git to see what's been happening and i'll have a look at everything when i get home from work tonight. > No. ~/.gnome2/ has been deprecated for a few years now, the correct > location is ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/. That's good to know, i have

[Rhythmbox-devel] converting python plugins to work with git

2011-05-23 Thread Lachlan
I've compiled the latest version of rb from git and things are looking great. have there been any write ups about converting python/pygtk plugins to be gtk3 compatible? i've seen posts about it but nothing with any details on what has to change. also now that everything is gtk3 will there be a ne

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Question: How to query rhythmdb case insensitive?

2011-04-18 Thread Lachlan
2011/4/18 David Jelić : > Hello, > > I am trying to write a small plugin in python for syncing multiple > Rhythmbox players via Last.FM and I would appreciate some help about > little problem. do you mean like these? http://code.google.com/p/lastfm-stats-in-rhythmbox https://launchpad.net/rb-merge

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] RB.Source.add_to_queue() argument 1 must be rb.Source, not str

2011-04-08 Thread Lachlan d
> Get the play queue source (via the 'queue-source' property on the > shell) and add entries to it directly with the add_entry method. > rb_shell_add_to_queue is going to disappear shortly, since it's part > of the shell dbus interface, which is going to be removed entirely. What's replacing the d

[Rhythmbox-devel] RB.Source.add_to_queue() argument 1 must be rb.Source, not str

2011-04-07 Thread Lachlan d
i'm stuck at add_to_queue(), i get the uri and then it tells me that's wrong, how am i supposed to add to the play queue? On the writing guide it just shows the URI and that's what i've given it, but it doesn't want it as a string? #ERROR: shell.add_to_queue(location) TypeError: RB.Source.add_to_

[Rhythmbox-devel] capture middle click in plugin

2011-04-05 Thread Lachlan d
I've managed to get my GUI working on my other plugin and have got actions for buttons and all that so things are going well there. I've been looking at writing another plugin but can't find any information on how to run on mouse clicks. (It's all from buttons, etc online) Basically I want to writ

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox GSoC Idea

2011-03-29 Thread Lachlan d
> If not, maybe it would be nice if rhythmbox supported multiply folders for > music indexation > (Library Locations). it supports multiple locations now in gconf, /apps/rhythmbox/library_locations is a list. I have: 'file:///home/user/music/albums' and 'file:///home/user/music/new' as my library

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] problems parsing podcast feeds

2011-03-17 Thread Lachlan de Waard
On 18 March 2011 15:37, Laine Stump wrote: > I'm running the rhythmbox that is part of Fedora 14 (currently at version > 0.13.3). It is having trouble parsing podcast feeds that rhythmbox 0.12.8 > (on Fedora 13) has no trouble with. For example, the current state of the > Car Talk feed at NPR cann

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] A couple suggestions

2011-02-22 Thread Lachlan de Waard
On 23 February 2011 05:10, Damien Radtke wrote: > The queue doesn't jump from the left to the right; if it's displayed at all, > it's on the right, and shares the same panel as context pane. I tested it > with context pane, and if both are active then they each take up half of the > sidebar. The o

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] plugin writing GUI

2011-02-20 Thread Lachlan de Waard
On 21 February 2011 02:02, wrote: > Why don't you just look at a current plugin that uses the configure window > and see how they create this window? > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Lachlan de Waard > wrote: >> I've looked at other plugins hoping to

[Rhythmbox-devel] plugin writing GUI

2011-02-19 Thread Lachlan de Waard
i maintain a plugin that doesn't have any GUI but i'd like to add one at some stage. First i want to add a 'configure' window then a preview/verification window before the plugin processes. http://launchpad.net/rb-fileorganizer The only problem is that I've never built a GUI program before. I've