libmediaart-1.0

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Description:

The libmediaart library is the foundation for media art caching, extraction and lookup for applications on the desktop.

• C-Documentation: https://developer-old.gnome.org/libmediaart/unstable/
• Devhelp-Package download

Content:

Namespaces:

• MediaArt

Classes:

• Process - A class implementation for processing and extracting media art.

Enums:

• ProcessFlags - This type categorized the flags used when processing media art.
• Type - This type categorized the type of media art we're dealing with.

Error domains:

• Error - Enumeration values used in errors returned by the Error API.

Methods:

• public bool buffer_to_jpeg (uint8 buffer, ulong len, string buffer_mime, string target) throws Error
  This function performs the same operation as file_to_jpeg with the exception that a raw buffer can be used instead providing len and the buffer_mime too.
• public bool file_to_jpeg (string filename, string target) throws Error
  Save filename to target as JPEG format.
• public bool get_file (string? artist, string? title, string? prefix, File? file, out File cache_file, out File local_file)
  Gets the files pointing to cache files suitable for storing the media art provided by the artist, title and file arguments.
• public bool get_path (string? artist, string? title, string? prefix, string? uri, out string cache_path, out string local_uri)
  This function calls get_file by creating a File for uri and passing the same arguments to get_file.
• public void plugin_init (int max_width)
  This function facilitates a plugin's need to create any internal caches before anything else is done.
• public void plugin_shutdown ()
  This function facilitates a plugin's need to clean up any internal caches.
• public bool remove (string artist, string? album)
  Removes media art for given album/artist provided.
• public string strip_invalid_entities (string original)
  Strip a albumname or artistname string to prepare it for calculating the media art path with it.