Re: [Banshee-List] Rock Box DAP Support

[Santiago <san650 gmail com>]

Great! i used rock box and i think it is great and i would love to see integrated with banshee.


just a suggestion, it would be great to also can the possibility to configure rock box from banshee, as far as i know rockbox have a text file with all the configurations.



Thanks,
Santiago

2008/10/9 Charles Mason <charlie mas gmail com>

Hi all,

Recently I have been experimenting with using Rock Box on my iPod. For
those that don't know its an open source firmware for many different
mp3 players including nearly all of the "Classic Style" iPods. Its got
a number of extra features overs the original software, including Ogg
and Flac support. As well as less productive things such as a text
editor and a fully playable version of Doom. Its really worth a try,
they have an automated GUI installer and you can dual boot and run the
original software at any time.

Anyway I have started work on an extension to improve syncing support
for it in Banshee. There are two ways you can play files on it. Ether
play them directly from the the file system via its file browser or
using its own database (similar to the original iPod software). The
database has to scan the entire file system for a couple of minutes to
update its self when files are added.

I tried using the mass storage extensions, but that takes a long time
when scanning the devices file system and is generally quite limited.
If you have an iPod you can use the normal iPod syncing and let the
Rock Box DB find the hidden mp3 files with the random names the iPod
DB system uses. The problem is that make playlists impossible and
still doesn't get round the Rock Box DB scan time.

Since the Rock Box DB format is documented I figured I could write a
Banshee extension to read and write the Rock Box DB directly, saving
all the waiting and allowing much closer integration with Banshee.

So far I have used the Mass Storage extension as a template and have
it reading the DB file off the player and loading its contents so its
browsable in banshee. However I currently can't work out how banshee
plays the file directly off the player. When double clicking the file
to play I just get a null reference exception. I have been trying to
work out how the iPod extensions achieves this. Can some one briefly
explain how banshee knows where to access the file?


Charlie M
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