Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] For claiming, 2 Rhythmbox bounties

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

I'm directly accessing the iPod (more accurately, I'm parsing the 
iTunesDB file present on the iPod using a dedicated library). The reason 
I'm doing that is because this iTunesDB file contains the list of songs 
available from the iPod UI and it also stores the song name/album 
name/artist name/... for each song on the iPod. I wanted to reuse this 
information to avoid iterating over each song looking for tags, and a 
gnome-vfs method can't make that information available.
If I ever work on synchronisation between rhythmbox and the iPod I'll 
use a gnome-vfs method though.
It should be pretty easy to adapt the changes I have made so far to 
handle another mp3 player: the only part which is really iPod specific 
is the loading of the iPod library, which is pretty isolated from the 
rest of the code.
Out of curiosity, what mp3 player are you working on ?

Christophe


Mark Humphreys a écrit :
> Christophe
> 
> Is this done via a gnome-vfs method, or directly accessing the iPod? The 
> reason I ask is that I have a mp3 player that I would love to have 
> working via rhythmbox, and I have a nearly complete gnome-vfs method, 
> and having one method working means  that others are easy to do.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark H.
> 
> On 26 Dec 2003, at 12:57, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 24 December 2003 07:37 am, jorge o. castro wrote:
>>
>>> The second bounty is for iPod integration into rhythmbox. I'll pay $100
>>> for feature parity with Mac/Windows.
>>
>>
>> He, I actually hacked a bit on that 1 week ago before leaving for 
>> holidays ;)
>> There's some code available at http://cfergeau.free.fr/arch/ in the
>> teuf@gnome.org--2003 archive, rhythmbox--mainline--0.7 branch. It's a 
>> pita to
>> get it to work though. For now, it can parse the iPod database and 
>> merge it
>> with the main library display, and play files from the iPod. It doesn't
>> handle plugging/unplugging of the iPod properly at the moment, that's the
>> next thing I want to get to work.
>> I won't be able to hack on that until next year, people wanting to 
>> hack on it
>> are welcome ;) I didn't start hacking on that for money though, and 
>> wouldn't
>> like much if someone "stole" this code and rushed hacking on it only 
>> because
>> of the $100 bounty.
>>
>> Merry christmas to everyone (yeah it's gone, but I just got my net access
>> back)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Christophe
>>
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