: MediaDevice

[Bart Cerneels]

Hi Roel,

Nice to see someone with a similar education path as me showing active 
insterest in Amarok.
The generic mediadevice plugin is about to get some more functionality, at 
least, it's on my todo list. Now that I'm about to graduate, I finally have 
some free time.
So many media devices that are fat32 based, with little or no database 
functionality (like iPod's), only differ in very small way's. Like supported 
codecs and the place they store playlists for instance. Creating a new C++ 
plugin for every one of those devices seems like wasted effort, and a problem 
to maintain.
I was thinking of very simple scripts that tell the generic media plugin what 
codec's are supported, file naming on the device, etc. And have some kind of 
autodetection system based on usb/hal id's.
I don't have any code yet and don't now if I will before we start on Amarok 
2.0, but it does itch :).

Meet us on #amarok on freenode to get more info. My nick is Shanachie

On Thursday 22 June 2006 13:30, Roel Meeuws wrote:
> This is an enquiry e-mail via http://amarok.kde.org from:
> Roel Meeuws <r.j.meeuws at gmail.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I use amarok to transfer media items to my Nokia N80 using the generic
> mediadevice plugin. But the problem is that when I use Transkode the files
> are transcoded into mp3 because the generic mediadevice transmits no
> preference format. I think it would be good if there was an option in
> GenericMediaDevice to set the preferred format, e.g. m4a, ogg, etc. 
> Furthermore, because many madiadevices have no real added functionality
> compared to the GenericMediaDevice, it would be nice to be able to specify
> new mediadevices based on genericmediadevice, just by providing a
> compatible list of formats, a nice picture, and maybe some mount unmount 
> commands. Saves the trouble of all the 'unnecessary' coding.
>
> A more elaborate feature would be progress bars per transfered item. And
> parallel transfer item a/  transcode item b -> so two progress bars running
> at one time, maybe different colors?
>
> Point me in the right direction and I might code some of these things
> myself, allthough I never worked on a kde project before.
>
> greetz,
>
> Roel Meeuws BSc
> MSc Student
> http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~rmeeuws
>
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