Portable Media Player strategy (was Re: random user request)

[Bart Cerneels]

2007/8/20, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu>:
> <lyonmel> eean:  When you use an ipod with iTunes, when you "sync" the
> ipod, all new podcasts are put onto the ipod, and ones you've listened
> to are deleted all automatically.     You cannot delete any files from
> the ipod with the ipod itself.

I don't have an iPod (and I'm not allowed to play with my gf's) so I
don't know this.
I guess podcasts aren't autodeleted, we just push them on the
filesystem and add them to the iTunes db.

In Amarok 2 we should have 2 methods of adding tracks to portable
media players. Push and Sync:
- Push selected tracks on the pmp, which is what we have been doing in 1.4.
- Sync a playlist to the pmp, which means deleting stuff that is not
in the playlist anymore. This is useful for space limited devices and
Podcasts Playlists, which act like smart playlists that look at
playcount. For iPods and others this means we'll have at least one
Podcast Playlist that covers So I guess this means we need to updated
the smart playlist before syncing the pmp.

Bart