Amarok's iPod Collection: Volunteering to help

[Matěj Laitl]

On 17. 1. 2012 Santiago G. wrote:
> Hi. My name is Santiago, I'm the poster of this bug request:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291722

Hi Santiago!

> Today I have been fighting all afternoon to be able to transfer music
> from my music collection to my iPod touch. So far I couldn't not find a
> complete solution, and that annoys me. Even using Apple's iTunes
> (running in a virtual machine) I have the issue of not being able to
> transcode files as I would like.
> 
> Being an Amarok lover, and knowing that what you are working on will be
> awesome: making the whole process simple and easy (as it should be in
> the first place), I wanted to volunteer to help you in any way you want.
> My coding skills aren't that great yet, but I can help you with testing,
> documentation, translation, or whatever you may need.

That would be great, I do have older iPod nanos to test, but devices with iOS 
are accessed in a slightly different way so I would certainly use a lot of 
testing from you.

For start, I'd like you to compile amarok from sources, start using that 
version (Version 2.5-GIT must appear in Amarok about dialog) and verify it 
works at least as good (wrt iPod support) as Amarok 2.5 from kubuntu. [1] 
should definitely help you doing so, but please use my git clone 
git://anongit.kde.org/clones/amarok/laitl/amarok.git instead of official 
git://anongit.kde.org/amarok.git

[1] http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/2.0_Development_HowTo

> I have posted the output of the command you told me, and if you want I
> could get you the data for an iPad 2.

Yup, that was already useful for me, I'll let you know when I'll need more.

> Also, if you want to get in touch in a more direct way---IRC, MSN
> Messenger, etc.---feel free to tell me, I have free time I could spend.

Good, my MSN is strohel at hotmail.com and Jabber strohel at gmail.com but I 
generally prefer e-mails because I can handle them in batches, but don't 
hesitate to contact me using MSN/Jabber for short&quick things.

> Thank you very much for your work. Best of luck.
> 
> /Santiago/

Thanks for your help, this will directly contribute to better support of iPod 
devices in Amarok.

		Matěj