Hello everyone,
First of all, excellent work work on the latest incarnation
of
Rhythmbox. Every now and then I get the urge to try out one
of the
competing music player for gnome, and always end right back
up w/
rhythmbox, thanks to its speed handling my large collection,
and all its
nice new features.
Speaking of features, here is something I have been
wondering about for
a while now: Can we grab "last played" info from
ipods etc? I listen to
most of my music on my ipod, be in during my nice long
commute each day,
or while driving, I'd say 80-90% of my listening is via the
ipod. Now, I
know it stores the play count and last played date
(Rhythmbox will even
show this if you enable those columns). Unfortunately, the
only
listening statistics that get pushed to last.fm are the few
tracks I
listen to on my work/home pcs.
Since the last.fm track submitting code is already in
Rhythmbox, how
hard would it be to allow rhythmbox to submit ipods tracks
as well? It
could do it be default, but I am sure there would be people
who don't
want it, and I'm sure there could be problems figuring out
what has been
played since the last "batch push" (we could maybe
reset the play count
each time? or track ti locally, though i bet this would be
ugly). Or, it
could offer last.fm submission as an option when the user is
viewing the
ipod source (maybe next to "Eject"?) A dialog
could come up, showing
the tracks to be submitted, and asking for a confirmation,
and maybe ask
if you want to reset play counts etc afterwards.
Its just and idea, and is something I'm willing to try to
help on (my C
is rusty, however, my python is decent). Any one have any
feedback?
Cheers, and go red sox,
Matt Nicholson
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