This morning I (very belatedly) committed a monster patch from David Schneider which extends the Wikipedia plugin to also be able to query autolyrics.com for the currently playing track. Building upon David’s awesome parsing backend, this makes it integrate well with Banshee. What does this mean for you? No more asking yourself, “What IS (insert favorite artist here) saying?!?!” The answer is a lot closer than you think.
It’s as easy as pie – just download from the Banshee subversion repository. Check out the Banshee Plugin Repository for how to get it!
Now what I’m really looking for is this – I need your feedback. The Wikipedia plugin now does more than just display wikipedia pages, it also does lyrics. Thus, it needs a new name. Anyone have any grand ideas? The winner with the best idea…I dont know…will get…voice on IRC for a day…or something.
Of course, the obligatory screenshot:
Hmm, I am interested in getting this plugin working in Banshee. I ran the autogen with the –enable-user-plugins option and tried to compile it up. It looks like there were a few bugs where there were two + signs in a row on different lines. I fixed that up and it compiled. I copied Wikipedia* from the src directory into ~/.gnome2/banshee/plugins. I started banshee and enabled the plugin. When I try to play music banshee freezes. Could you point me in the right direction to figure out what might be causing this. Can I start banshee with a command line debug?