Hi all, I've expounded upon this idea on #rhythmbox on GIMPNet before,and this is a repetition,more or less.
My idea is to be able to read the metadata of the next track to be played in a stream,and search the RB library for matches.If matched,then remove the particular track from the stream and play the file preferentially from the hard disk,for two reasons: 1]Will save bandwidth and 2]Tracks on disk will usually have higher bit rates,and thus quality,than streamed tracks because of copyright restrictions on Internet radio stations,and also because tracks on a hard disk have been personally ripped by the music aficionado,and no sane person would rip at anything lower than the quality provided by the CD,or at the least,will rip at bitrates close to the experience provided by CDs,IMHO. I plan to start off from Last.FM streams first,and expand later to ShoutCast,which as moch and bow^znc kindly pointed out on IRC,is quite difficult.Also,I would need a bit of help being a newbie programmer starting with Python as his first language. :) Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065 _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
