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1 Long-term "TODO"
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3 - output plugins should have some kind of (optional) "query available formats"
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4 function, so that the core could determine what should be used. perhaps
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5 offer users this info?
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7 - remove the idiotic XMMS compatibility output plugin hack.
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9 - all audio plugins (input, output, effect) should be made completely
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10 re-entrant. this probably means severely breaking the API. not very
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11 trivial either :(
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12 * basically plugin init() should allocate / init a state struct to
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13 be used in all operations, etc.
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16 - the equalizer should be fixed .. in more than one way:
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17 * equalizer was broken by asphyx's libSAD
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18 * lots of things are hardcoded, like number of EQ bands. this should
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19 be changed.
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22 - URIs with "?" are stripped (the subtune support uses that), which is bad,
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23 because some (a lot) of real-world URLs use 'GET' arguments. this breaks
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24 probing, but current input probing is confusing (and possibly broken anyway)
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25 and should be refactored.
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28 - mime-types support:
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29 * there is already code for mime support, but I think it may not be
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30 sufficient as it is designed for input plugins only --
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31 also playlist containers etc. need this (IMHO)
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33 * might be nicer to have the type registrations in plugin struct
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34 instead of a separate function, a'la vfs_extensions.
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37 - document the different APIs via Doxygen
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40 - unified debugging/message system, for core and plugins
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41 * something like glib logging system, with logging levels
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42 * hardcoded "debugging" levels and/or macro-wrappers that would
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43 disable superfluous debugging output compile-time.
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44 --- being planned by ccr
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47 - audacious VFS is not 64-bit offset safe, breakage will most likely occur,
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48 if files larger than 2^31 are used (rather unlikely, tho, but still...)
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50 * nenolod says: current vfs sucks, it needs a "rewrite":
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51 - buffering support
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52 - non-blocking I/O support
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55 - {core,plugins}/configure.ac need some cleanup loving.
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56 * make session management (SM) optional. (done)
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57 * build system cleanups .. extra.mk.in? wtf? (done in core, progressing
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58 for plugins)
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59 --- this is in progress, worked on by ccr
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62 - plugin rewrites:
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63 * madplug
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64 * modplug (in progress by ccr)
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65 * scrobbler
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68 Playlist code issues
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70 It's been determined that the playlist code should be completely refactored.
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72 ATTENTION! Add more stuff here! Issues that you can think of, suggestions
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73 for solutions, etc. References to algorithms...
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76 - code (mostly in playlist.c) is unnecessarily complex in some places and
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77 there is lots of useless duplication.
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79 - what data structures should be used? things that factor in are
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80 efficiency and scalability - memory usage and speed.
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81 see also below and notice the manipulation bottleneck(s).
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83 (different structures typically have bottlenecks in different places.)
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85 - playlist_clear() is VERY slow with large playlists, possible reasons?
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86 * GList scalability sucks? (it does, but is it the real reason here? need
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87 to profile this...)
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88 * maybe playlist_entry_free() is at fault instead? (see also below)
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89 * mowgli_heap_free()?
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91 possible solutions?
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92 * mempools for playlist data? not sure if possible, the tuple heaps
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93 should then somehow be collected into pools...
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94 * storing the playlist as a GtkTreeModel seems to be fairly fast (at least
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95 in mudkip-player it is) --nenolod
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97 - current implementation has a nasty racecondition in scanner thread vs. playlist
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98 manipulation (playlist_clear(), free, etc.)
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100 * new code should be water-tight when it comes to locking. simpler code
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101 with more "atomic operations" should help.
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104 ccr rants:
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106 I suggest that the whole playlist manipulation should be moved into separate
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107 thread. What I mean, is that the playlist scanning (e.g. probing for
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108 metadata) AND adding files into playlist should be in a thread.
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110 Adding files would work like this:
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111 1) feed URIs to playlist handler thread
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112 2) playlist handler notices new URIs and starts checking if they are valid
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113 aka probing or other checks.
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114 3) valid files/URIs get added to the playlist. unsupported files get discarded.
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116 Possible benefits of this approach:
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117 - checking for "can we play this?", which currently happens in main
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118 thread and blocks the GUI etc, would now happen asynchronously.
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119 - improved user experience: less blocking generally, and it would be even
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120 possible to _parallelize_ probing, if we wanted to, getting metadata
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121 for multiple files at the same time. (this could be a user-settable
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122 option.)
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124 Bad sides:
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125 - requires careful design and thread locking .. but that we need anyway.
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126 - possibly might make playlist GUI representation harder. I am not sure
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127 what effects this might have, feel free to pitch in thoughts...
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