Searching Freesound from within Ardour

I mentioned before that Ardour now included support for Freesound's Moocher interface. At the time I had though that the UI hadn't been completed. Not quite, I missed something.

While running scons to compile Ardour, this message flashed past:

FREESOUND support is not enabled. Build with 'scons FREESOUND=1' to enable.

Once enabled, the File | Import dialog has a new tab:

As of r3186 doing a search downloads all results into ~/Freesound/snd/. Whether you actually add any of the results to you ardour project or not. That isn't a complaint, I can see that there would be benefits of caching this data here outside of you current project.

When you perform the search, no results are displayed until the file is downloaded. Cached files should appear immediately.

Obviously this feature is still at a very early stage of development, so I expect that the following improvements are already planned, or if not, I've add them as a note to the Moocher support Feature Request.

• Displaying search results and downloading as separate steps
• Displaying search results immediately, then a per-result, cancelable, download
  progress indicator.
• Elective blocking (whether to not display in results, or not download by default) based on past selections: e.g. don't download samples by user X, or with a tag Y
• Use a sidebar tab as the interface (see del.icio.us add-in for firefox for an example of what I'm thinking) This could allow downloads to continue without blocking the whole app.