Re: [Banshee-List] 2 ideas

["Peter Colijn" <pcolijn gmail com>]

On 7/7/06, Stephen Holmes <stephen onedotone com> wrote:
> Photo's and coverart have been added to ipod-sharp.  There's a patch for
> Banshee HEAD that will handle the transfer.  See
> http://www.snorp.net/files/banshee_ipod_cover_art_v2.diff

Sweet. Will definitely check that out. Thanks!

> > 2. Transcoding seems sub-optimal right now. Everything is transcoded
> > before syncing occurs (meaning that if you have to stop for some
> > reason in the middle of your sync, you get nothing on your device). In
> > addition, transcoding everything all at once uses significant disk
> > space (although I am aware that the transcoded versions are cached,
> > which is beneficial, but some users may not wish to waste the space).
> > Have there been any thoughts on improving the transcoder? Perhaps
> > adding a pref (could be hidden for those with pref-phobia) to disable
> > the caching mode and transcode song-by-song?

Any word on this one?

Have fun,

Peter