Re: my personal wishlist

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 15:20, Ralf Engels wrote:
> Hi,
> I downloaded Zinf and tried to compile it (see my patch).
> I think that Zinf has some big benefits compared to Xmms.
> 
> 1. Cool UI
> 2. pluggable UI
> 3. written in C++

Great.


> However I think that it has some big shortcommings.
> 
> 1. extremly slow playlist handling. This will always be slow as long as 
> it tries to look for ID3 tags for all of my 3000 files.
> 2. no way to script it with Perl

I have some incomplete patches to speed playlist handling.  
Unfortunately they don't apply cleanly to current code base.   I haven't
had much time lately.  


> so here is my personal wishlist
> 
> 1. implement xmms-lib interface
> 2. pluggable playlist handling
> 3. compile without music brainz
> 
> The last point is very stupid because as far as I can see MusicBrainz is 
> only used in win32 parts of the code.

I think we also use it to do CD title lookups from linux.    
  In fact, I was planning  to expand its use to permit really cool
metadata handling.   
However, the next version should permit users to disable metadata
handling in levels.

1.  No metadata :  zinf will present only filename

2. Local metadeta : Users may tag and use metadata stored either in the
music files themselves or in the metadata database.

3.  World metadata :  Zinf will use outside resources to complete
metadata fields when available.

> What do you think about this?
1.  Sounds fine.. I would also like a jack output plugin all the stuff
over there.

2.  Pluggable playlists? Different musicbrowsers?

3.  Probably not a very hard.   It would mean 
removing the configure option and not compiling with the plugin. 
However, I expect someone would have to write a freedb
plugin then.   Why not stick with what works?

> Should I try to do something about this issues/proposals?
In a word.. yes.    Can you code?   What exactly do you mean by
pluggable playlist support?   Which xmms plugins are you dieing for?  
Do you have experience with their plugins?

-- 
Kristian G. Kvilekval
email:[email protected] office:(805)893-4276 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kris



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