pippin;525355 Wrote: > I don't know. > + Plugin spares me the handling of an additional connection > + Plugin may be more simple to implement (don't know) > - Plugin doesn't work with MySB which is growing more and more > important > > I definitely need a plugin for everything that maybe challenging > license wise, like Lyrics. > Just for information, I've started to look at a new "Song Info" plugin which will provide a generic JSON interface to get extra text or image url information from the server related a song, artist or album.
If everything works well it will have a plugin interface similar to Custom Scan so you can add custom modules as separate plugins but still have a generic interface to request the information. The main reason for implementing it is that I want artist images in my "Album Flow" applet, so I'm not doing this specifically for iPeng but I suspect it might be useful also there unless you want a solution that works with MySB.com. I'm not yet sure if it't enough to just return raw text or image urls, there might be a need for some combination and maybe also for some kind of formatted text version. Things that should work with this: - Last FM information (like similar artists, artist images, textual description of album/artist) - Integration with AlbumReview/Biography plugins (haven't look at their interface yet, but the plan is that it should work) - Integration with some lyrics plugin - Information scanned with Custom Scan plugin I'll probably focus on LastFM and Custom Scan support initially. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
