willing to help: NJB mediadevice

[Andrew Barr]

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Alright, I've been wrapping my head around the code in src/mediadevice/njb, 
specifically njbmediadevice.cpp, specifically NjbMediaDevice::newPlaylist(). 
If I'm not mistaken, this is where the action is with respect to what needs 
done Re: playlist support. Here's how I read the function:

- - we are passed a set of pointers to MediaItems. 
- - An NjbPlaylist object is constructed
- - The name of the playlist is set on the jukebox.
- - We loop through the pointer list, adding each track (represented by a 
pointer to a MediaItem) one by one.
- - Assuming success so far, the playlist is updated on the device (I guess this 
means actually committed to the disk, kZenExplorer works similarly--you 
create a playlist and then you must commit it)

What remains is creating an amaroK playlist (MediaItem?) and returning it, 
according to the amaroK wiki. There is a comment (in Spanish), which says (I 
think) "TODO: create a converter for playlists to amaroK playlists." I assume 
this means taking our NjbPlaylist object that we created earlier and 
populated and converting it into a MediaItem, and returning that object.

That's what I've concluded from looking at the existing code. If I am totally 
off base here, I apologize. I didn't get a wink of sleep last night and I'm 
running on fumes today, so I think I'll go take a nap and give my brain a 
rest. :) I promise I'll be more sentient tomorrow. ;)

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 12:16, T.R.Shashwath wrote:
> I know of MTP and libmtp, but since my player doesn't have anything to do
> with that, it never really interested me... :-)

Well, there's an upgrade for my device, and there are reports that MTP is 
faster than the old PDE protocol, but beyond that I see little advantage in 
upgrading. PDE is pretty fast as it is, especially on USB 2.0 devices.

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