Hello all. I'm hoping to sign up for the SoC and I'd like to expand on the idea of a collection provider for media devices. The project proposal listed on the idea list is self-explanatory, but I'd like to expand on issues of the past, and ideas for features in addition to integrating the media device framework into amarok 2. I'm not sure how much of this is too ambitious, so I hope you all can help me find out.<br>
<br>Personally, in amarok 1.4.x my main issues with the media device part of the program were auto-recognition and connection of the music device, the speed of song list import for iPods, issues with the automatic calling of ipod-read-sysinfo-extended not working and the itunes lock file, and the taking in and use of data about playcount of songs to send to services such as <a href="http://last.fm">last.fm</a>, and also synchronisation of album cover art (an issue related to libgpod's capabilities with iPod classics, which may since have been remedied in libgpod). While the latter two issues have manual workarounds, amarok really should be taking care of it. The iTunes software can choose to synchronise music and playlists between the iPod and iTunes automatically, which would be of great use instead of having to remember to copy downloaded songs to the iPod later on (and this could be expanded to work with all media devices).<br>
<br>I have more ideas, but I want to first gauge if I'm aiming in the right direction to building ideas for a proposal. I have an iPod classic 80gb to work with. I'm familiar with C++, am learning Qt and have not done any programming using KDE libraries before. I learn quickly enough, just want to know if I have the background which could get this job done in 3 months.<br>
<br>I am "xevix" on freenode, and frequently hang around in #amarok, and appreciate all feedback.<br>