Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] ipod support

[Toby Woodwark <zirtix softhome net>]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:38, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > This looks very cool. 

I concur.

> One quick question though, would this work with a
> > standard firewire harddrive?
> 
> Depends on what you mean. If you create an ipod-like directory structure
> and an ipod database on your firewire hard drive using gnupod, it will
> work. 
> But I guess what you want is rhythmbox to handle files on discs which
> are only plugged from time to time without readding them to the library
> each time. This will not work.

Will it possible to plug in a different database backend?  I am thinking
of other media storage with databases, like iripdb for the iRiver
players:
> http://www.marevalo.net/iRipDB/

(the iRiver is a generic USB storage device)

Toby
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