iRiver support (was: Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] xine metadata, and iPod HAL support)

[Andre Meyer <a meyer hccnet nl>]

Hi all

Of course, it is easy to treat the iRiver as an external disk. This
could be added to the source list as a new device like any other
location, I assume. BTW Is it possible to get rid of the iPod icon?

Syncing should be rather straightforward, too. I use rsync for this
purpose (http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/programming/iriver_ihp-120.html).

With respect to the database there are specs and code available for
generating it. Unfortunately, I have no experience in C/C++, just Java
and Python. In fact, I was going to use the available Python code to add
Zope support (Web-based editing of the database).

The code I found on the Web even supports Ogg, which the original on
Windows does not. You may want to take a look at the following links:

iRivNavi.iDB file specification
http://www.marevalo.net/iRipDB/iRivDB_structure

C
http://www.marevalo.net/iRipDB/

Python
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/software/iriver/
http://wiki.stodge.org/index.php?page=iRiver+H-Series+Linux+Synchronisation
http://randomwalking.com/projects/irivdb-py.php

Windows
http://tdt.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gacel.de/ihptool.htm

good luck in case you try (and thanks in advance if you do!)
Andre


On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 15:48, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 14:14, Mark Humphreys wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have one. 
> 
> Right here!  I've got one too.  It's just a USB drive when it's
> mounted
> right.  
> 
> Too bad the new firmware has been delayed.  :(
> 
> > I have started an attempt to build a gnome-vfs module that reads the
> > database. I can get a list of the files, its just as matter of
> > presenting it. Once this is done, I may try and have a look at the
> ipod
> > source and having go at an iriver source, hey it beats big brother!
> 
> I'd love to see the iriver use RB, but I think it might take some
> firmware hacking to have it update the DB every time a song is played,
> but that would be the ultimate.  I'd take it just mounting the iRiver
> and letting me transfer songs back and forth between my machine and my
> player.
> 
> I'm offline for the summer, but where can I find out about your
> progress
> when September rolls around?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris