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+title: "Developing a Free Alternative for Splice"
+date: 2023-05-31T12:05:44+02:00
+draft: true
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+    caption: "Developing a Free Alternative for Splice"
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+---
+
+## Intro
+
+I think that almost everybody knows what **Splice** is. Basically, it's just a huge library of sounds and VST presets with some additional sweets. I can't say that I'm not satisfied by Splice, it's an applications that is doing pretty good, until you want to use it on Linux. That's something that I don't understand, (I'm almost sure that )it's an Electron application with and some binary running a gRPC server in a background, that I believe is written in **GO**. Both technologies are working on Linux, so basically, they could have just built a version without promising any real support for that. But they haven't. I've decided to try running it with WINE, but it didn't work. And then I though: There is awesome [freesound](https://freesound.org/), and why wouldn't I use it?
+
+
+> Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.
+
+
+But downloading samples using a browser it not something I'd like to do. I love Splice for their drag-n-drop app. And I've decided to develop one that will work with Freesound. 
+
+## Starting the project
+
+I've decided to use Rust and try the [Iced](https://iced.rs/) for the UI. 
+Here you will find the project git repository: https://git.badhouseplants.net/allanger/frice
+
+Basically, there are two things to do so the MVP is ready
+
+- Make correct API requests to the Freesound
+- Create a UI
+
+So the very first thing that I'm doing, I'm initializing a project and creating a very simple **Iced** app using examples
+
+```bh
+cargo init
+cargo add iced
+```
+
+```toml
+# Cargo.toml
+[package]
+name = "frice"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+[dependencies]
+iced = "0.9.0"
+```
+```rust
+// ./src/main.rs
+use iced::{Sandbox, Settings, widget::Container};
+
+fn main() -> Result<(), iced::Error>  {
+    Frice::run(Settings::default())
+}
+
+struct Frice {}
+
+impl Sandbox for Frice {
+    type Message = String;
+
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        Frice {}
+    }
+
+    fn title(&self) -> String {
+        "Frice".to_string()
+    }
+
+    fn update(&mut self, message: Self::Message) {
+        println!("Updating")
+    }
+
+    fn view(&self) -> iced::Element<'_, Self::Message> {
+        Container::new("frice").center_x().center_y().width(iced::Length::Fill).height(iced::Length::Fill).into()    }
+}
+
+```
+
+### API
+And now I want to switch to the API, because the UI without API requests won't be able to do anything. As I see now, I'll need to implement two API calls for the MVP:
+1. Search sounds
+2. Download a sound
+
+So let's start with the first one. They have a  basic example of searching on their [documentation page](https://freesound.org/docs/api/overview.html)
+
+```bash
+curl "https://freesound.org/apiv2/search/text/?query=dogs&token=YOUR_API_KEY"
+```
+
+*API key can be created here: <https://freesound.org/apiv2/apply>*
+
+So let's create a FreesoundAPI struct and add two methods there
+
+```rust
+struct FreesoundAPI {}
+
+impl FreesoundAPI {
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {}
+    }
+    
+    fn search() {
+        todo!()
+    }
+    
+    fn download() {
+        todo!()
+    }
+}
+
+```
+
+To create an API call I'll need a token, so I need to add a new field to the `FreesoundAPI struct`
+```rust
+struct FreesoundAPI {
+  token: String
+}
+impl FreesoundAPI {
+    fn new(token: String) -> Self {
+        Self { token }
+    }
+...
+}
+```
+
+I also need a library for making API calls `cargo add reqwest`