Re: [Banshee-List] iPhone Support in Banshee

[Daniel Hughes <trampster gmail com>]

Thanks for the update I guess their website needs updating.

As I have pointed out in order to create this code and have any
confidence that it works you need to have a iphone to test on. I do
not have one. I have experience making c# wrappers for native code but
it would be very difficult to create working c# bindings without
having the hardware.

What is needed is for a developer who has the hardware to step up and
do the work.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Roderich Schupp
<roderich schupp googlemail com> wrote:
> 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
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