Zinf Todo List / MusicBrowserMM

Hi,

As I've found myself with some time to actually work on Zinf recently I  
thought it might be an idea to draw up a list of what people think needs  
doing, what/when the next release should be, future ideas, etc. Hopefully  
this may trigger some sort of useful work being done (it always pays to be  
optimistic ... really).

So, i reckon the following stuff needs doing before the next release
* MusicBrowserMM
   - Custom layout dialog
   - Edit Info dialog
   - Work out what default layout should be, and other layouts to include  
in view menu
   - Icons for the stop, play/pause, previous, and next playback controls
   - Lots of testing and bug squashing
   - Any features that have been lost in the rewrite
* MusicDB
   - Support for all file formats (e.g. can only read the length of vorbis  
files at the moment)
   - Lots of testing and bug squashing
   - Stop the Playlist object looking all tracks up in the old database
   - Implementation of file path DB

This is all I can think of at the moment, so there will be plenty I've  
forgotten.

What other stuff do people think needs doing?
Also, is anyone in a position to actually work on any of this?



On a side note, BrowserMM has come a long way since I last updated the  
list (which was a veeery long time ago). For my needs it is now roughly  
functionally complete. Some of the highlights include,

* Addition of playback toolbars to browser
* New dialogs (e.g. Missing File, Search For Music, etc.)
* now uses gtkmm2.4 (not compatable with gtkmm2.2/2.0)
* uses new GTK+ UIManager for menubar/toolbar, so can specify custom  
toolbar/menubar with XML (XML currently hard coded in  
ui/musicbrowsermm/src/items/actionbars.cpp though, this needs putting in a  
preference)
* Playlist now has a custom GtkTreeModel which has a better performace as  
well as
   - drag & drop between filesystem and playlist, and between playlists  
(not from library to playlist though)
   - supports columns of arbitrary metadata
* saner source file organisation
* bug fixes


A changelog (generated from arch log messages) is here:  
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/change-log

A gratuitous screen shot is here:  
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/updated_screenshot.png

Source code can be downloaded from my zinf--browsermm branch:  
http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf/arch2004/

Alternatively you can download a full source tree here:  
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf--browsermm--0.5--patch-43.tar.gz

At some point I'd like to commit this lot to CVS, though last time I tried  
that I broke kristian's zinf--cvstrunk branch, so it may be a while before  
I actually do this.


Cheers,
David
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