Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Generic audio player support

["Marc E." <elcomandante sbcglobal net>]

This is great for USB mass storage devices, but I see a lot of patches 
being added to rhythmbox,, queue, itunes, music sharing, libnotify, 
album art, this, podcasts, etc etc, where is ALL this stuff?

James Livingston escribió:

> G'day everyone,
>
> I've had a play around and whipped up a patch that tries to add
> (read-only) support for "generic audio players" to Rhythmbox. As I don't
> have one, the patch hasn't received any more testing than "it compiles".
>
> That said it's a fairly simple implementation, and should (in theory)
> work with any player that
> a) is reported by HAL to have the "portable_audio_player" capability
> b) is reported by HAL to use the "storage" access mechanism.
>
> So basically it should work if HAL knows that it's a audio player, and
> doesn't use some funky communication protocol. It will ignore any
> database on players that have them, but should work by scanning the
> player's disk for tracks.
>
>
> If anyone tries this, reports of success or failure would be good.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Doc" Livingston
>  
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