Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Ipod plugin enhancements

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:49 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 06:50:01PM -0500, david airgeadstudio net wrote:
> > Hi Christophe
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> I must admit that I don't really like the sound of this - I'd rather
> have rhythmbox deal with externally downloaded podcasts properly, that
> is, have them show up as correctly identified episodes in the podcast
> source, rather than in the library.
> 
> That said, I think this could be done pretty unobtrusively.  The code
> that determines if a file being added to an ipod is a podcast or not is
> in create_ipod_song_from_entry() in rb-ipod-source.c.  This could be
> extended to check if the source filename is under the user's configured
> podcast download location.  As long as that isn't the same as their
> library location, I guess.

The podcasts are already in the library, but hidden, and only shown in
the podcast section. That was the little work that we did some time ago
to allow the Podcasts directory to be a sub-directory of the library
one.