On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:46 -0400, Charles Schmidt wrote: <snip> > We aren't, Howl is. Unfortunatly, this causes a bug. If you try to > share your library as "My Music", and there already is a "My Music" > existing on the network, Howl renames yours to "My Music (2)" Which > seems good, until you notice that the mDNS browsing is notified of /all/ > new shares, including your own. So that this doesn't appear in the > sourcelist, I do a strcmp (network_name, my_shared_music_name), and if > they're the same, don't include it. However, Howl will not notify you > if it renames your music with a number suffix. So, the end result, if > your share name is a duplicate is: > > Your music is available to everyone as "My Music (2)" > "My Music" (the first person's share) will not appear in your > sourcelist. > "My Music (2)" (your music) does appear in your sourcelist. > > This is just a stupid shortcoming in Howl, and I can't see any way > around it. Hopefully avahi doesn't suffer from the same problems.
How about resolving the service, and checking this instead? > > > * When loading a daap server the user interface is not updated until it > > > the network communications are finished. Ideally, the network stuff > > > should be in a separate thread, or at the very least the daap buffer > > > parsing stuff should be done incrementally in a timeout. > > > > Yeah...this is going to be important to fix soon actually; consider an > > office where you have say 50 people sharing music... > > I'll start working on that as soon as I finish the avahi migration. I hope you aren't removing the howl code. Avahi barely had a release, howl is already in many distros. Cheers --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
