Re: [Banshee-List] 2 requests

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:43 AM, softromu <softromu hotmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  As a Banshee lover for a while now, I'm reading this list with attention and
>  I come to you with 2 requests:
>  - My music is now stored on a NAS system, the NAS exposes shares through
>  Samba or FTP, may I use directly Banshee with such types of shares or do I
>  have to mount Samba shares in the local directory structures? Any other
>  ideas are really really welcome !

Not sure - that's definitely the easiest from our perspective.  But,
we should recognize when a folder/drive is mounted, and disable or
hide the unmounted songs you have in your libarary.

>  - I really do love Banshee, it's my sole music manager ; and even if you
>  don't want it, people are going to buy more and more iPod Touch and iPhone
>  instead of classic iPods, and it's a mess Banshee doesn't support these new
>  devices while other music managers do (Amarok, RythmBox...). So please, do
>  implement this support.

I do not think Amarok or RB support iphone or itouch (unless you count
this 25 step hack to get something working:
http://abhay-techzone.blogspot.com/2007/11/using-ipod-touch-iphone-with-amarok.html).
 I'm sure we'll get to it at some point, but honestly it is a lot of
work, and personally, I'd rather prioritize working on features that
benefit all our users, not just those supporting Apple and their
3rd-party-unfriendly devices..

Gabriel