Music + RSS feed in Blender
With these two new add-ons, you can now listen to your MP3’s or read RSS feeds (including BlenderNation! ;-) from inside Blender!
nikitron writes:Between developing Sverchok, F2, QQads (coming soon from Alexander Nedovizin), blender-addons developers relaxing by trying to make Operating System’s shell from blender.
First came RSS feed reader, that made by Nikolay Fomichev. It is 2.5 blender addon, old one. Situated in World properties.
Second is a music player for Blender, made by edddy and some developed by nikitron. Situated in 3D toolshelf in NT tab.
Enjoy.
I will not be surprised to see Blender Desktop manager in near future. :)
“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law_of_software_envelopment
Other than possibly just for fun, what is the purpose of this?
Why climb Everest? Because we can. Same prinipal. There might eventually even be a Blender OS if they’re abitious enough… XD
That is what I thought as reading this entry.
When I’ve wrote MusicPlayer, it was to learn Python and I’ve diffused it on Blender Artists under the title “useless addon”
http://www.pasteall.org/50531/python
new RSS version
Just what we need, more distractions when we try to work! :D
What? I was just working when this comment email came in :)
Well, I don’t know about you, but I struggle getting work done instead of just browsing the web :) And having an RSS feed right inside of Blender is not exactly helping me focus! :D
Ho cool, my old addon Music Player!
It’s so cool you fixed it nikitron, well done
next, the a mobile game engine, to make pretty apps and games and include all of these nice features.
i see mistake in description – RSS reader in world properies Area, and music player in properties 3d toolshelf in NT tab.
oups.
Updated, thanks!
We need a Blender theme song.
Someone, get on that!
As much as this is fantastic programming, and I commend the person(s) who wrote it, and it certainly is an excellent demonstration of the flexibility of Blender, I can’t help but feel this is more of a distraction than a useful addon. There are certainly applications out there to play music or read RSS feeds, it’s not like it’s an essential feature for an applications like Blender. It does have a cool factor to it of course but aside from that, not much else.
What would be more useful is addons that help in the creation of assets or scenes, or help in automating certain repetitive tasks.
But again, hats off to the creators, I certainly couldn’t do this!
I repeat myself, it is a useless addon, my part at least (music player), it was for learning,
and I’ve learned a lot from it
you know what?
We need this type of addons for python beginners. For example, I learned some from this music player, as you did. Maybe this addons themselves not usefull. But if you i.e. link php website and blender scene, you may be interested in rss reader. Or if you connect music player with 3D object with 3d scene this could help. Somehow this doodads become usefull or as good examples to understand python.
Your assumption here is that if these guys hadn’t made these add ons, they would have built the stuff you would like to see. Open Source communities don’t work that way – people do their own crazy experiments or ‘scratch their own itch’.
I really like theses addons, even if i agree with Gustav :-P
https://github.com/nortikin/nikitron_tools
I dare to push to github.
please, download if you can