Re: new plugin for retrieving and displaying current playing song in Rhythmbox

On Apr 7, 2005 5:36 PM, Rishabh Manocha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> First off, I'd like to thank everyone for pyblosxom, its an amazing
> blogging tool for those of us who dont have a Db (and maybe even for
> those who do).
> I have written a small plugin which displayes the song that is
> currently playing on Rhythmbox. Since my blog is hosted on my school
> server, I also had to write a small "server" script which sends the
> required data over a connection.

Sweet, it looks good. 

One thing you might want to note; be careful with socket.recv. You
should do it in a loop until you're sure you've received the entire
buffer. Socket.recv will get *no more* than 1024 bytes, but there's no
guarantee of a minimum value for it to receive. In practice, probably
not a problem for the small amount of data you're sending, but just
something to think about. Socket debugging can get real fun real
quick, esp when you're dropping a few bytes somewhere.

> You can read my blog entry
> (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~rmanocha/blog/index.cgi/programming/rhythmbox_plugin_done.xhtml)
> for more details.
> I would like to know if people are intrested in the plugin, and if so,
> how do i submit it to the plugin registry.

Definitely put it into the plugin registry. Since my internet
connection is messed up tonight, I can't see the registry page, but
isn't there a link on there to add it in yourself? If not, we'll get
Will to stick it in there.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com

> Rishabh
> 
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