Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Accessing the artist / album list and the search filter with dbus / console

[Georg Sorst <georgsorst gmx de>]

Hey everyone,

sorry to bring this up again, but could someone please confirm that the
described functionality does (not) exist so I can stop looking and
wondering?

Cheers,
Georg


Georg Sorst schrieb:
> Hey list,
> 
> most of my question is already in my bloody long subject line ;)
> 
> I am currently trying to extend Rhythmbox support for the wonderful
> Anyremote project [1]. Anyremote provides among other functions a
> bluetooth remote for your computer ie. a server that runs on your
> computer and a Java client for your mobile. The great thing about it is
> its flexiblity as much of the functionality and look of the client can
> be set with configuration files on the server. It already displays the
> currently playing title on the mobile's screen and I've hacked in
> support for displaying the album cover as well.
> 
> Anyway, long story short: to provide further functionality I am looking
> for a view to get the list of artists and albums in the library and set
> the filters accordingly. Ultimately the list of all tracks would be nice
> as well but that's probably not really useful. The second thing is a way
> to get and set the "Search" filter. I've been looking for a way to get
> this info with either DBus or using rhythmbox-client but neither Google
> nor the mailing list nor the DBus interface definitions provided any help.
> 
> So, am I missing something or is this functionality not available (yet)?
> 
> Thanks and so long,
> Georg
> 
> 
> [1] http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/
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