SoC Media Devices Collection

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Alejandro Wainzinger
<aikawarazuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all.  I'm hoping to sign up for the SoC and I'd like to expand on the
> idea of a collection provider for media devices.  The project proposal
> listed on the idea list is self-explanatory, but I'd like to expand on
> issues of the past, and ideas for features in addition to integrating the
> media device framework into amarok 2.  I'm not sure how much of this is too
> ambitious, so I hope you all can help me find out.
>
> Personally, in amarok 1.4.x my main issues with the media device part of the
> program were auto-recognition and connection of the music device, the speed
> of song list import for iPods, issues with the automatic calling of
> ipod-read-sysinfo-extended not working and the itunes lock file, and the
> taking in and use of data about playcount of songs to send to services such
> as last.fm, and also synchronisation of album cover art (an issue related to
> libgpod's capabilities with iPod classics, which may since have been
> remedied in libgpod).  While the latter two issues have manual workarounds,
> amarok really should be taking care of it.  The iTunes software can choose
> to synchronise music and playlists between the iPod and iTunes
> automatically, which would be of great use instead of having to remember to
> copy downloaded songs to the iPod later on (and this could be expanded to
> work with all media devices).
>
> I have more ideas, but I want to first gauge if I'm aiming in the right
> direction to building ideas for a proposal.  I have an iPod classic 80gb to
> work with.  I'm familiar with C++, am learning Qt and have not done any
> programming using KDE libraries before.  I learn quickly enough, just want
> to know if I have the background which could get this job done in 3 months.
>
> I am "xevix" on freenode, and frequently hang around in #amarok, and
> appreciate all feedback.

Yes, sounds fine. Put together a proposal today or it's going to end
up being too late.

Ian Monroe