Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Plugin to fix playlists

[Petko <pditchev gmail com>]

On 02/04/2012 05:02 AM, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> I don't even understand what you're asking for here.  You want the
> playlist code to do this for you?  To my mind this is something better
> implemented in a plugin.
True, I also got to this conclusion .

> Read the introductory documentation for gtk. There's nothing special
> about using gtk within rhythmbox.
Done and done .

> Which playlist parser? What sort of playlists are you talking about?
The Totem playlist parser . All sorts of playlists , since I think it 
parses them all the same . I think I can handle that now.
> > 3.Last part I figured out : probe every DB entery for its location , parse
> > it through g_filename_from_uri , compare the filename to the item given from
> > the playlist, if there's a match ->  add it to the playlist
> The database really isn't built for this sort of thing, so you're
> going to end up just iterating through the entire thing. This will be
> slow.
Yes , it will be , but I don't know what the mechanism is that the 
automatic playlists use for example to search in the paths of the songs 
(and I thought even that won't be perfect but now that I thought about 
it , it can be used without errors) .
> If you ask specific questions I can answer them. I can't answer "I
> need some help".
True , I'm sorry for throwing unfinished ideas around (I thought someone 
could pick them up ,  but I in no way insisted on it) .

So now , the questions :
-Do you know how the automatic playlists search through the paths in the 
DB for strings
-How do I get to communicate with the DB in my program , I've never done 
that before (as in :how do I get the RhythmDBClass object from another 
process)

Again , sorry for the spam earlier , I hope the questions aren't too 
stupid .


PS:I saw just now I didn't add the mailing list address , sry for the 
resend .

Regards,
Petko