Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] ANN: Rattlesnake 0.1.0

2008-11-13 Thread Max Kellermann
On 2008/11/09 23:53, encoded [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is unfortunate that Rattlesnake needs it's own database, but I highly doubt that a patch would get accepted into MPD to track such data. Hi Eric, why don't you ask me? ;-) Having some sort of modifiable sticker database for song files

[Musicpd-dev-team] Introduction

2008-11-13 Thread Roeland Douma
Hi all, I am Roeland. I am one (of the two :P) developers of QtMPC as Qt bases MPD client. I had some problems I was running into when trying to add new features to QtMPC. Now I believed some of the problems are not in line with the design principles and what MPD is not. I recently had a

[Musicpd-dev-team] Protocol Discussion

2008-11-13 Thread Roeland Douma
Hi, As my first (non-introduction) post I would like to talk about the MPD- protocol. The whole protocol feels to me like it is just implemented when new functionality was added to MPD. While I totally understand this from a developers point of view. This is not a good thing. The protocol is

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] idle command

2008-11-13 Thread Marc Pavot
Hi Why not? The client can let the connection block until something happens, or it can abort idle as soon as he wishes to use the connection for something else. That is simple, but powerful. As already proposed by someone else, a publish-subscribe protocol would be much more appropriate

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] Protocol Discussion

2008-11-13 Thread Qball Cow
Roeland Douma wrote: Hi, As my first (non-introduction) post I would like to talk about the MPD- protocol. The whole protocol feels to me like it is just implemented when new functionality was added to MPD. While I totally understand this from a developers point of view. This is not a

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] ANN: Rattlesnake 0.1.0

2008-11-13 Thread encoded
On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Max Kellermann wrote: On 2008/11/09 23:53, encoded [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is unfortunate that Rattlesnake needs it's own database, but I highly doubt that a patch would get accepted into MPD to track such data. Hi Eric, why don't you ask me? ;-) My