Set time for checking song updates [partially done, need to add GUI)

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We should be able to change how fast the music plugin thing checks for a
new song (as I've already discussed with Ben). This is just a reminder.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kreugerb...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2008 at 10:05

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Original comment by ben.motm...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2008 at 10:36

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writing plugins for media players and using dbus is better idea - longterm idea.

Original comment by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2008 at 11:15

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I'm pretty sure they do use dbus.

Original comment by kreugerb...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2008 at 5:23

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but media player doesn't "ping" galaxium, that another song is playing.
galaxium checks on his own in some delay - that's bad.

Original comment by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2008 at 11:51

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Jakub: where a media player supports DBus its already used and Galaxium doesn't 
poll
for the media, it is updated by the media player.

Polling for data is only done for players which don't have support for anything 
else.

Original comment by paulburt...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2008 at 2:15

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I added support to customise the polling times (r1228)

anyway, I didn't add GUI settings for it, but you can change them using the 
following
config values:

in ~/.config/Galaxium/Plugins.xml

<Section name="SongInformation">
    <int name="BackendPollTime" value="60" />
    <int name="SongPollTime" value="30" />
</Section>

* values are in seconds
* accepted ranges: BackendPollTime 20+, SongPollTime 10+

Original comment by ben.motm...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2009 at 12:14

• Changed title: Set time for checking song updates [partially done, need to add GUI)
• Changed state: Started