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

[Martin Aumueller]

On Monday 20 August 2007, Bart Cerneels wrote:
> 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.

You're right: an iPod does not automatically delete stuff, it's all up to the 
application.
>
> 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.

As far as I know, iTunes handles this kind of stuff with smart playlists.