[Weekly Report] Week 7: Rhythmbox iPod/MTP Syncing

[Paul A Bellamy <paul a bellamy gmail com>]

Good Morning,
   This last week I have been working on the iPod implementation.  I 
started by moving a lot of the sync code from RBiPodSource (where it was 
basically one giant, messy function) into RBiPodPrefs (where it is much 
cleaner, and more organized).  This move resulted in a couple necessary 
changes to the treeview code (for the Preferences dialog) which 
basically resulted in me redoing a lot of the treeview code so that it 
is more robust, and cleaner.  While in the treeview code I also added 
the 'disable if parent is unchecked' functionality.  Where if a node's 
parent is un-checked, the node will be insensitive, and not 
activatable.  A lot of my week last week was spent refactoring code, 
while moving it from RBiPodSource to RBiPodPrefs.

A few entries from my work-log:
   : Refactored sync function, while moving it into RBiPodPrefs.
   : Test the output of the sync lists, to ensure it is generating 
lists properly
   : Got it generating the sync lists correctly, and ipod sync 
basically working
   : Added generate_ipod_filename_unique, to append numbers for more 
unique filenames
      - For example:  if we try to sync 'song.mp3' and it already 
exists, it will save the second one as 'song_1.mp3'
      - Will probably need a bit more work, eventually.
   : Made treeview disable children when un-checked

This coming week I am planning to:
 - Implement Sync Preview
 - Set up "automatic" syncing.  Need to register a callback, for when 
the library is updated/ipod is loaded.
 - Put the finishing touches on the iPod Syncing code.

Unfortunately, progress will likely go a bit slower this week, as my 
mentor is away.  Hopefully (as it is mostly finishing up) this week will 
go smoothly.  I would like to implement a better method for transferring 
playlists, to the iPod, as the current way I am doing it is a bit 
kludgey.  Ideally I would like to have a function something like 
'rb_ipod_source_add_playlist_from_entry (RBiPodSource *source,  
RhythmDBEntry *playlist)'.  We will see if I get time to implement that 
this week.  If I don't, I may revisit that during my fudge time in August.

Paul