Re: [Banshee-List] What can I do to get into the project? I'm purchasing an iPhone...

["Eric Schultz" <hammy charter net>]

Jim,

Currently the main project to decrypt the iPhone database @
http://bluwiki.com/go/Ipodhash has been taken down due to legal pressure
from Apple. Apple does not legitimately have a case but it is putting a
damper on the decryption project. The IpodHash wiki pages are available from
various sources, including wikileaks so you can still get the information if
you're interested. Please get involved! Encryption is not my forte but
having 3rd party access to the Ipod/Iphone is hugely important so if you're
interested please investigate it.

I don't know how much Aaron is speaking officially for Novell when he
suggests alternatives to the iPhone but his comments are worrisome. If
Novell wants to make Banshee a first class music player and Linux a
legitimate choice for consumers, then there needs to be 3rd party support
for the new iPod/iPhones. Novell needs to put their weight behind an effort,
technical and/or legal, to get 3rd party access from Apple. Without 3rd
party support, 70% of new MP3 players WON'T work with Banshee. That's simply
unacceptable.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: banshee-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:banshee-list-bounces gnome org]
On Behalf Of Aaron Bockover
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:33 PM
To: banshee-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] What can I do to get into the project? I'm
purchasing an iPhone...

You should probably research the iPhone first. You'll realize that it's
nothing like a traditional iPod, you can't work with it at all unless
you crack/jailbreak it, and there's no exposed filesystem.

There is some project trying to crack the insanely encrypted,
obfuscated, and proprietary protocols that are used on the device, but
it's not making much progress, and likely won't be something we'd roll
into the project anyway.

If you really care about being able to use a device with Banshee, I'd
look into alternatives to the iPhone. I for one can vouch for the
Android/T-Mobile G1. I have one, and added very specific and integrated
support for it for the 1.4.1 release. There is a model now out that is
not bound to T-Mobile either.

--Aaron


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 20:46 -0800, jimmio92 wrote:
> Hello all,
> What can I do to get into the project? I'm purchasing an iPhone this week
> for myself, and was wondering if I could work either on a plugin that'd
add
> support for the iPhone or work on the actually core program to add support
> for it. It'd all be semi-slapped together as of now, because I have no
> experience programming using any of the audio-oriented libraries Banshee
> does... but it shouldn't be much more than placing the files in the
correct
> place and then updating the iTunes database file, just as it is with the
> current/last-gen iPods. I was thinking upon activation of the plugin, a
> Ringtone section could be added... .m4r with a time of less than 30
seconds
> is an mpeg4 audio ringtone file supported by the iPhone, and automatically
> add them to that section.
> 
> Any of this sound do-able? I should probably tell everyone ahead of time
I'm
> only 16, but I really want to get involved in a project, especially one
that
> allows the use of the iPhone with an awesome audio app like Banshee.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim

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