SoC 2006: Banshee

What is it?

ccBanshee is a Google Summer of Code (SoC) project that enables Banshee users to view, validate, and manipulate license metadata embedded in media files.

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Google SoC Timeline (2006)

Project start (May 23)

May 24

• Planning and Design
  • Poke around in code and network with other developers

Notes: I'm in Russia durring this time and do not have adequate computer resources for coding.

June 11

• Lay out Banshee code for initial proof-of-concept code
  • Modify database to handle basic license information
  • Update library view to show database changes

Notes: The current state of Banshee will make modifying the database and PlaylistView difficult. The library view is hardcoded and a large amount of time will have to be devoted to designing an acceptable license view addition.

June 18

• Implement MP3 ID3 tag parsing
  • Integrate with whatever code already exists in entagged-sharp
  • Additions and revisions needed in entagged-sharp

Notes: Many updates have been made to the way license metadata is storied in the ID3 tags. More attention will be given to updating entagged-sharp to these changes if not already done.

June 25

• Integrate C# CC license wrappers
  • Add icons to represent each license property

Mid-project (June 30)

July 2

• Add claim validation functionality
  • Write necessary network code
  • Implement XML parsing of page claim validation

July 16

• Add support for other media types such as OGG

July 23

• Banshee plugin abstraction (tentative)
  • Modify and update Banshee plugin API to handle database changes and library view access
• Abstract Banshee-ccLicenser to plugin API

Project end (August 21)

Developers

• Luke Hoersten - Student developer
• Nathan Yergler - Google SoC mentor