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[Maximilian Kossick]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Maximilian Kossick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > -media devices, at least ipod + mtp (actually, the ipod media device is
> > the only essential one imo, because of the huge market share, but we
> > already have code for MTP devices thanks to Jeff)
>
> The big three are generic, MTP, and iPod.
>
> Generic: This could easily be handled, at least at first, by simply
> having a second collection rooted at wherever the mount point is.  Most
> of these devices don't support artwork or any other fancy features.
> Since we have the framework for transferring tracks to/from various
> collections (unless that's not implemented yet) that takes care of most
> anything you can really do with a normal, vfat generic device. 

The framework exists in collection/CollectionLocation. unless i fucked up the 
workflow adding support for copying files to a collection is as easy as 
implementing a single method. It might need more callbacks if Nikolaj wants 
to use the code for implementing the purchase workflow.

> MTP:  The PMP kioslave is coming along, on the MTP side, sort of.  On
> the MTP side you can list tracks, rename them, delete them.  It'd be
> nice to at least get it to a point where you can copy songs off of it,
> and paste songs in, and deal with advanced functionality later (like
> artwork, for instance).  I'm working on this stuff, but keep getting
> hampered with issues here and there.  Hopefully it'll pick up a bit as
> both KIO and the PMP code get more robust.
>
> iPod:  I'm not really familiar with the range of features available on
> an iPod or with libgpod, having not looked at their API.  I imagine it's
> pretty similar to the features available on MTP devices.  So probably a
> lot of the same problems will be encountered, but hopefully fixing them
> on the MTP side will help fix on the iPod side too.
>
> --Jeff
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