[Banshee-List] Sync to Folder / plans for Dap on Mac OS X?

[Timo Dörr <timo latecrew de>]

Hi everybody,

since iTunes sucks big time when handling media files stored on a NAS, I  
looked on current banshee-on-mac status and found the recently posted Lion  
build (see mail:  
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/2011-September/msg00020.html)  
which works quite good on my snow leopard machine, too (with the same  
mentioned dragging glitches that were discussed for Lion). Kudos for that  
build, btw!

Now I found that banshee on mac has disabled all kind of Dap/device  
syncing stuff. As I store all my music on a NAS in the network, I  
occasinally need to sync some playlists with new/recent music to my  
macbook and my android device when I'm at home to have some music with me  
on the go.

That's why I've started a little hacking and created a basic DirectorySync  
Addin, which is currently capable to do this. Everything is very ugly  
right now but the copy process to my android device and creation of .m3u  
lists works so far. See a screenshot here:  
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14469783/Ohne%20Titel.png

Now I dug into the banshee sourcecode and found most of the functionality  
i imeplemented is arelady there in the Dap/MassStorage backends. I think a  
cleaner solution would be for me to implement a new device type  
"FolderDevice" based on the device interfaces already defined and have  
banshee do all the syncing. But it seems to me the Dap stuff is tightly  
coupled to dbus/gnome libs for hardware detection, which is the reason its  
disabled on Mac OS X builds, isn't it?

Is there currently a roadmap for banshee on mac that will introduce basic  
Dap stuff at least to some extend where all current devices are not  
compiled in, but the core syncing infrastructe? That way I could create a  
FolderDevice backend that would be usable on mac. If that's currently not  
the case, I would continue to work on the addin-based solution and maybe  
do some cleanup and refactoring to try getting it into mainline BCE. Of  
course only if there is demand by users for that addin.

Feedback highly appreciated!

Greetings,
Timo Dörr

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