Re: [Banshee-List] iPhone Support in Banshee

[Roderich Schupp <roderich schupp googlemail com>]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Daniel Hughes <trampster gmail com> wrote:
> According the libgpod site.
>
> "There's also preliminary support for the iPhone and the iPod Touch
> but they must be jailbroken to work. You'll find more details in the
> NEWS file."
>
> It seems that libgpod requires you to jailbreak your phone.
> libimobiledevice does not.

That's obsolete information.

> As far as it not being worth the effort, Nautilus and RythemBox both
> seem to disagree and have implemented support for iphone and ipod
> touch.

... for some value of "support". For example, Nautilus just lets you mount
the "visible" portion of the iphone filesystem using libimobiledevice.
So this gets us back to the days of early ipods that simply could be treated
as a kind of glorified USB drive. BTW, current libgpod uses libimobiledevice
for that purpose, too.

The other half of support needed to manage your music collection on the iphone
is to read and update the iTunes.db file. For that you (a) have to
know the firmware
version of the iphone (because the structure of the iTunes.db varies with it)
and (b) have re-engineered the correct way to update it.
AFAIK, libgpod does all that, but the suggestion to create c# bindings for it
(search the list archives) so that Banshee may use it seems to have
gotten nowhere.
And even if someone created these bindings, someone will have to convert
Banshee's ipod support from libipod/podsleuth to libgpod.

Whining won't get you there, only code will.

Cheers, Roderich