Aaron has given me another chance to get my CC license viewing code into Banshee before the 11.4 release but I just don’t think I can make it happen. I spent the lesser part of three weeks trying to bring my ~11.0 CVS patch in sync with the latest 11.3 SV but the code base [...]
Smart Tagging 1. Band names default to “&” instead of “and”. 2. Smart casing (Caps first letter of every word except things like “the”, “and”, “of” etc). 3. Reorganize directories after a tag change. Last.fm + iPod Plays are tracked on the iPod and synced to the Banshee database on iPod connect. Last.fm plugin catches [...]
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347628#c5 A lot of new changes have come about in this patch with a few big highlights. First, license viewing works completely independant of the verification and now verification is completely working in its own plugin. The second big change is that license handling now runs off of a separate relational table in the Banshee [...]
Last night I was talking to Aaron about a problem with Creative Commons license verificaion being too resource intensive to be in Banshee core. The obvious solution was to split license viewing and verification into a patch and plugin respectively but this was easier said than done. There was no optimal way to verify tracks [...]
Because Banshee doesn’t have a “make run” target in the automake, you have to install Banshee each and every compile to test revisions. I also need to do things like delete the user database and run the program after its built and installed. To do this I’ve written a little Bash script to shortcut some [...]