Re: [Banshee-List] Status of later generation iPods.

["Josiah Ritchie" <josiah ritchie gmail com>]

On 4/25/07, Justin F. Knotzke <jknotzke shampoo ca> wrote:
> On 24/04/07, Josiah Ritchie <josiah ritchie gmail com> wrote:
> > Currently, banshee doesn't differentiate podcasts or audiobooks from
> > any other audio when creating the iPod database. It would also have
> > probably not paid attention to the ones you already had when wiping
> > out the database, but I'm not sure about that part. I bet the files
> > are still on the device, but the database doesn't know it.
>
>    Thanks for the reply.
>
>    There were two questions initially. The first, which you addressed
> regards the wiping out of the podcast directory on my iPod. Yes, you are
> correct, the files are there but as you mentioned, but the DB doesn't know
> about it.
>
>    The second, was the loss of 'chapters' in a podcast. Not sure if this is
> the correct term, but some podcasts contain chapters which are splits in the
> file that allows you to quickly move through the entire podcast. Often a
> chapter will contain cover art. The chapters are lost when transfered to the
> iPod.
>
>    I also noticed that Banshee itself does not yet support this feature.
>
>    So my question regarding my two questions is should I enter this as a bug
> or a feature request ? What can I do to help ?

If you look around bugzilla, I think you'll find that podcast support
on the iPod has already been requested. Perhaps you could explain your
chapter issue in this bug to bring a better overall perspective to
bug. I'd look up the bug # if I had time, but I don't right now.

If you can't find it, post another.

JSR/