: MediaDevice

[Martin Aumueller]

Hi,

definitely useful, but hard to do: Amarok relies on taglib for modifying meta 
data, but taglib only supports id3v1 and id3v2.4. If you want to write in 
other formats, you have to recourse to other libraries, such as id3lib. This 
is stuff that would have to be done within the individual media device 
plugins as this is not useful for Amarok core.

Martin

On Fri June 23 2006 09:20, Andreas Mair wrote:
> 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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