Introducing rbox

[dylanljones]

A while back I started porting pyrekordbox to Rust, and I'm excited to share that the project is now public!
It's called rbox, and it builds on what I've learned developing pyrekordbox, with room for features I've wanted to explore for a long time.
It natively supports Python and JavaScript, so you can use it in your existing projects without needing to rewrite them in Rust.

Rust felt like a good foundation for that next step, with a few advantages:

• Multiple languages: use rbox directly in Rust or through its Python and JavaScript bindings, all backed by the same implementation. Suggestions for additional language bindings are welcome!
• Performance: a native Rust core with lazy loading for analysis files helps reduce unnecessary parsing and memory use.
• Future features: planned Pro Dj Link support, USB export creation, and audio processing benefit from Rust's performance and low-level control.

The new library already includes Device Library (.pdb) support, including creating the database from scratch.

The main tradeoff for Python users is that rbox does not expose a SQLAlchemy interface.
Database access goes through rbox's own API, so code using pyrekordbox's SQLAlchemy models and queries will need to be adapted.

Work on pyrekordbox will continue, but new feature development will focus on rbox.
There's no need to migrate an existing project immediately; pyrekordbox remains an option if its Python API and SQLAlchemy integration suit your workflow.

rbox is still in active development, and feedback from pyrekordbox users would be very welcome.
Take a look at the project and let me know what you think!

Cheers, Dylan