Hacking

Have been continuing to work on the rhythmbox backend for dashboard. Nat has put up a list of backends, but this isn't on it yet, oh well. It is getting quite mature now - all I have to do is go through it and fix of the cruft I have put in due to not knowing anything about programming in mono.
Current features are ...

• Shows currently playing track with metadata from rhythmbox
• Shows last ten played tracks in a list.
• Artist and album are clickable and take you to 'allmusic.com' entries.
• Errm.
• Thats it

There are a few things that would make this totally cool.

• Clicking on track should play it in rb. Bit difficult that one.
• Access to rhythmbox metadata should be via a (mythical) rhythmbox backend, so it would not take 15 seconds to load the 59000 entries that I have in the metadata.
• Wish I could program in mono!

I am moving flat next week, so I'm guessing that I will not be working on this for a bit!