mherger;530605 Wrote: > > I've released a beta version of a new Song Info plugin. It adds a new > > CLI/JSON command to the server that makes it possible to retrieve > > additional information about a song, artist or album. The Album Flow > > applet uses this to get images, for example artist images from the > > LastFM web site. > > Is this plugin in any way related to the TrackInfo et al. menus? Sounds > like there's a similar idea, but different implementations? Is the main > difference that SongInfo allows to fetch that information from > anywhere, not only the track context menu? > > I suppose you could look at it as an abstraction layer on top of the Slim::Menu::*Info menus.
The idea is that information providers should be able to focus on getting the information and shouldn't have to care how and where it is displayed. The Song Info plugin will: - Show the information provided in TrackInfo, ArtistInfo or AlbumInfo menus depending if the provided information is related to a track, artist or album. - Make the information available over CLI/JSON for external applications and applets, for example Moose and the Album Flow applet. - Provide a generic configuration web interface so the information providers doesn't have to create its own settings page if it just want to let the user specify a integer or string parameter. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76688 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
