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[Veritatem Ignotam <veritatem.ignotam@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about using MPD as a backend? May be less resource intensive as a 
backend, shouldn't have a problem compiling as is, and possibly simpler 
to build your interface from scratch on top of MPD instead of trying to 
work with rhythmbox's.

V.I.

On 03/04/2013 10:36 AM, Daniel Holm wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm thinking about creating a music application. I'm in an early stage 
> of learning to code for QML to begin with, but I have some concerns 
> for the future.
>
> I'm thinking about creating an application that really uses Rhythmbox 
> as an backend, but using $ rhythmbox-client. Since its Ubuntus default 
> music player, I mean.
> So just a easy UI with buttons for previous, next track, play/pause, 
> stop, playlist and so on. Press a button and a flag to 
> rhythmbox-client is sent.
>
> What are you guys' thoughts on this? Is it possible to have rhythmbox 
> running in the background instead of writing a completely new music 
> player?