post mid-term report

As I had written in my earlier post my job is two-fold. Now, for the second half of my GSoC project, I have to work on downloading the LRC file.

When I was writing my proposal it appeared that highlighting would be the tougher part compared to fetching .lrc files from webserivces. But if history has taught me anything, it is that proposals rarely ever end up like implementation. I had planned to pirate the LrcShow-X's code. It fetches .lrc files from a number of sites. But after spending a week on trying to understand it code, I am uncertain whether I would be able to reliably pirate even one such provider reliabally. If you know of such a webservice (that provides .lrc files) please comment.

Another way of implementing it would be making Amrok's scripting interface work directly with the .py files of LrcShow-X. It would mean that I will have to enable Amarok's scripting interface to work with python scripts (unless Amarok does not do so already). LRC-ShowX's source has different classes for different webservice engines, each of wich has a superclass "engine.py". Hence, all have a common interface. I would just have to use this.

I have not written any code as yet. Matters are a bit tense. I hope just as the highliting part turned out to be easier than I imagined, this part turns out to be easier as well.