On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 12:44 +0200, Mattias Eriksson wrote: > Hi, just read the webarchive of the rhytmbox list and saw that you are > working on supporting portable audio players. I hope you plan some > simple mechanism to add/remove songs from them... that way all music > tasks could be handled by rhythmbox. I guess it shouldn't be that hard > for storage devices... > > //Snaggen, who haven't had time to test the patch Since posting the patch, I've realised several reasons why it won't actually work as-is - which stems from me not having hardware to test with. One of my house-mates bought one the other day, so hopefully I'll borrow it sometime, and make it work. The biggest problem I see with adding write/sync support for "generic" players, is that it's hard to tell whether it is actually a simple mass-storage device, or it's a player-with-a-db that we don't know about. As an example, generic play support should be able to do playback from an iPod - but writing won't work because the ipod-db needs updating, and files have to go in the right location. Probably the best way to do this is add generic write/sync support, and hope people file bugs telling us that it doesn't work for a particular player. If we have details of what doesn't work, we could then try to make it work. Also talking to the Banshee devs if probably a good idea, because most of their backend libraries are written in C, and it would be better not to duplicate the effort. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- If USENET is anarchy, IRC is a paranoid schizophrenic after 6 days on speed. -- Chris "Saundo" Saunderson in asr.
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