Re: [Banshee-List] Playlist support for Mass Storage devices (G1)

["Matt Nicholson" <sjoeboo sjoeboo com>]

Jon,

I would just:

In Banshee, make a playlist.
With playlist open, have all the songs in it selected.
Drag them over to the G1.

Boom.

I just drag full artists/albums over most of the time, but made a playlist quick to make sure you could drag over from one (no reason to think you couldn't). Now, the order etc of the playlist won't be preserved, of course, but, all that music should be there, so you should be able to shuffle it, or whatever you like. 


Matthew Nicholson
nicholson eps harvard edu
Harvard University
FAS IT Research Computing
Dept. Of Earth and Planetary Science

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Dutchman <jon raiford org> wrote:

Thanks Sandy,  that actually explains a lot.  I'll see what I can do on the
Android side.  I know its possible to trigger off plugging in or removing
the usb cable, so I see no reason why we can't reliably sync the sqlite db
with .m3u files without any human interaction.

In the mean time, since syncing the entire music library won't work for me
(not enough space on my sd card), would it be easy to make Banshee sync a
single "G1" playlist with the phone?  Assuming this is not something that
everyone would want, if you could point me to the code that handles this,
I'd be happy to roll my own hack :)

Jon

Sandy Armstrong wrote:
>
> On 01/14/2009 09:03 AM, Dutchman wrote:
>> I am having a hard time finding any information about using playlists
>> with
>> mass storage based devices.  The release notes with 1.4 mentions
>> "Additionally, playlists are now supported on media devices, including
>> MTP/PlaysForSure and iPod devices, and even mass storage devices, if
>> configured correctly".
>
> Sure, assuming the device lets you interact with its playlists...
>
>> Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?  Ultimately I'd like to be able to
>> configure Banshee to sync playlists automatically between my computer and
>> my
>> T-Mobile G1.  Right now I'd be happy with just getting it to create the
>> playlists at all.  I hate the idea of managing .m3u files manually.
>
> If I recall correctly, playlist info on the G1's native player is all
> stored in a sqlite database that is not part of the mounted file system
> when you plug your G1 into your computer.
>
> The source for the media player is pretty easy to read; perhaps somebody
> could patch it to have a feature that reads .m3u or some other playlist
> format in a given location on the SD card, and import that into the
> sqlite db.
>
> Alternatively, you could write a standalone Android app that did that,
> and manually run it after each sync.
>
> But for this to work, Banshee would have to put that playlist file
> somewhere.  In the current default G1 situation, that doesn't make
> sense, so it's not yet implemented.
>
> Sandy
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