AsPyFoo: Surf using foobar2000's active playlist

[tnl]

AsPyFoo

See its documentation online if you are interested in using it, since there is setup involved.

It's an overdue replacement for my original script.  The implementation is wonky but the workarounds in place make it work.   If anyone can help me understand COM and threading more that would be appreciated

EDIT: Latest source is now available in a bitbucket.

[charlieh]

If anyone can help me understand COM

*cringe*

Just wondering, why don't you use string.lower() instead of your mylower function in ashifyfoo.py?

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why don't you use string.lower()

I do use that, too.

It's an issue of comparing tags in the fb2k ML against the artist and title tags you get from asreport, in order to avoid redundant ash-file-generation.  They seem not to have the same meaning of lowercasing, when you either have Unicode characters, or ASCII characters assuming a codepage.  You should probably disregard my attempt at explaining since I'm not well versed in this subject; I'm just uncertain why ashifyfoo repeats scanning certain files at its start.

All the system would need to know regarding whether or not a song has been loaded before is probably the file path, anyhow; at this point it's fairly meaningless what's stored in the database.  I was thinking perhaps it should also log scores and data to determine characters used per song or something.

[Pyritie]

What an awkward name.

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Which name?  AsPyFoo, mine, foobar2000, or Python 

Have you a better suggestion?

Alas, if this were coded in a compiled language it could be a foobar2000 component named foo_audiosurf 

[Pyritie]

AsPyFoo, of course

How the heck do you even pronounce that?

[Laserrobotics]

I was going with 3 syllables, separated by the capital letters.