Re: [Banshee-List] Delete Banshee cover art...

[Todd Wilson <twilson csufresno edu>]

Nicholas Doyle wrote:
> Disabling cover art seems to be a bad solution to the symptoms. Why not
> solve the problem itself instead?
> 
> Again, I have to say that maybe somebody should look at bug 584860 [1].
> This bug basically makes Banshee useless with iPods. This combined with
> bug 587376 [2] has made me give up on using Banshee with any DAP. Maybe
> these bugs should be given a higher priority as DAP support really is a
> big ticket feature. I've looked at addressing the bugs myself but I just
> don't have the time to devote to fixing them properly. I've hacked the
> first one enough to get music on my iPod with /some/ cover art but the
> solution is very broken and inconsistent. For my Android device, I'll
> just write my own transcoding script because that's easier for me.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584860
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587376

I thought I had a student who was going to be able to work on these bugs
as a project, but he switched to a completely different project,
unfortunately.  I'm looking for a replacement, but I'm not holding out
much hope at the moment.

In terms of the effect of these bugs on users, I've been in the same
boat as Nicholas:  I basically can't use my iPod Classic with Banshee.
I agree with Nicholas about their importance, and I'd really like to see
some concerted effort to get these bugs fixed; I only wish that I had
the time myself to work on it, but I'm behind on several other projects
as it is.

Dr. Todd Wilson
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Fresno