: MediaDevice

[Andreas Mair]

Hi,

while reading the next post on the ML "Amarok and unicode tags?" I thought 
it would be a good idea if the tags could be converted to a given version 
that's supported by the media device. I don't think that every available 
portable MP3 player supports v2.4 tags.

What do you think?

Regards,
Andreas

On Friday 23 June 2006 08:41, Bart Cerneels wrote:
> 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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