GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 524920
Allow rhythmbox to play files from local folders without importing into the music library
Last modified: 2018-05-24 13:17:21 UTC
Every now and then it comes very handy to just play a file in a local folder without importing it into the music library. This is especially the case when one doesn't intend to keep the file forever or wants to listen to it first before deciding whether to keep it or not. Other popular media players (e.g. exaile) offer a special source (or whatever the equivalent to RBSource is called) for just this reason. Here is a tiny python plugin that allows RB to do the same, and I would like to suggest inclusion into the official RB svn tree.
Created attachment 108205 [details] Python plugin to allow RB accessing and playing local files outside the library This archive contains the source code for the localfiles plugin, a python plugin that allows RB to access, display in a tree view and play files from local folders. These files are not imported into the library, yet they can be used in the play queue and so on until RB is closed.
This sounds great. Any chance you could turn this into a patch against latest SVN? It's much more likely to be reviewed and/or included in the main source tree if it's in patch format against SVN trunk.
Created attachment 108709 [details] [review] Python plugin to allow RB accessing and playing local files outside the library (diff vs. SVN trunk) This is the same code as in attachment #108205 [details] , simply extended by the necessary autotools patches to make its build install a normal part of RB's build and install process. Now you may choose: Use attachment #108205 [details] for dumping the plugin into ~/gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins and check it out or use this patch for a system-wide installation and possible check for integration into RB's SVN tree.
*** Bug 568123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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