Return Playdarcollection from "the Dead" ;)

[Stefan Derkits]

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Hey,

>> Yeah, Leo and I talked about putting together a 'dummy service' for
>> it, which would allow enable/disable and configuration, and I still
>> think that's a good idea, but it was decided way back when that it is
>> a Collection rather than a Service, (though it does have
>> characteristics of both).  Also, I think it fits more as a 'local
>> source of music' since one of the goals of Playdar was to make
>> disparate sources all appear local.  Also, for recommendations and
>> such, (e.g. top tracks from similar artists), to be useful, it needs
>> to be queried when the other collections are.
> 
>> However, I feel rather strongly that being able to configure
>> collection plugins in the same way that services can be configured is
>> a great idea, especially with the number of collection plugins
>> available now.

Some Services have Collections ... I think it could stay as a Collection
where it is and be enabled/disabled & configured via a Service ... could
that be possible?
Only thing is that I think every Service creates an "Entry" in the
Internet and maybe the Collection of a Service doesn't find it's Place
inside Local Music.

>> Unfortunately, this is a limitation of playdar's current state.  That
>> said, it may be possible to create new resolvers/edit old ones so that
>> this sort of query works, without having to mess with playdar-core,
>> (since the resolvers determine what results are available).  Using
>> playdar-core and the included resolvers as is, however, means that no
>> query which doesn't specify both an artist and a title will ever
>> return any results, (i.e. single field matches are scored to low to be
>> returned as results).  If you can think of anything we could do about
>> this from the Amarok side, I'd love to hear it, but we'll otherwise
>> need to see how other implementations of the Playdar API work when
>> they're ready.

Thanks for explaining this ... would have to look into it.

Stefan
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