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Tragos
2007-07-26 , 12:09
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These two things are currently in my wishlist for UKMP future releases:
External config file
There could be a config file, in which the settings are stored. Preferably the default file would be stored in /etc. If the user would like to change some settings, this file could be copied in /home/user and edited according the user's preferences. At startup UKMP would check if there is a config file in user's home directory and if not, use the default file in /etc instead.
Configurable settings could be: disabling some audio format from search or output (referring to the problem with oggs in 770), changing settings for gst calls, disabling kinetic scrolling (as zerojay
wished
), setting default volume at startup, changing UI colors, defining directories for music searching and saving album covers, etc.
Support for sending information of played songs to
last.fm
(Audioscrobbler)
I believe the easiest solution for this is to use a program called
Maemoscrobbler
, which takes care of storing user credentials as well as caching and sending song names to last.fm service.
To make a music player work with Maemoscrobbler there should be two dbus calls sent. First one with song details (name, artist, album, length, position in track) when a song has been playing for a few seconds. The second one is sent if the player is stopped, the user seeks within the track or the track is changed. The functionality is better described in Maemoscrobbler's
API
page.
As last.fm is used only by some UKMP users, this should be disabled by default and Maemoscrobbler package shouldn't be a dependency for UKMP. There could be some kind of a check at startup to see if Maemoscrobbler is installed or a setting which turns on this support (for example a variable in the config file, see #1).
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