Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding songs to the queue in python

[Adam Zimmerman <adam_zimmerman sfu ca>]

On Sun, 2007-18-03 at 23:54 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Two bugs of possible relevance here.  The first is a feature I started
> working on to generate a playlist of random tracks with given criteria:
> 
> http://bugs.gnome.org/341249
> 
> this requires some more support in the rhythmdb backend and James has
> described on that bug what needs to be done.  Once that is in place,
> it might be easier to use it via a Python plugin in creating a list of
> tracks to add to the Play Queue.

That seems to be exactly the sort of thing I need.

> 
> The second is adding a plugin to approximate iTunes "Party Shuffle"
> which sort of sounds like what you might be trying to do.  
> 
> http://bugs.gnome.org/151233
> 
> The "Party Shuffle" feature should be an additional source to the Play
> Queue and not necessarily replace it, IMHO.

That's the kind of thing I was going for, although the party shuffle is
more complex than what I had in mind. Simply adding a certain number of
random tracks to the play queue would fit how I personally use
rhythmbox, but making it more powerful would be very cool as well.

I'd be happy to work on that once the feature in the first bug was
implemented (or perhaps if it hasn't been done by summer I'll finally
read up on glib/gobject ;).

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