Amarok and copying to iPod

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Dennis Neumeier at 19/03/10 18:44 did gyre and gimble:
> Am Freitag, 19. März 2010 19:00:20 schrieb Brian Morrison:
>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:36:03 -0400
>>
>> Soren Harward <stharward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Dennis Neumeier <dennismail at gmx.net>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> So: Is there any way I can copy songs onto my iPod with Amarok
>>>> 2.2.0?
>>>
>>> I don't know about 2.2.0, but you can definitely do that with 2.3.0.
>>> If I remember correctly, just select the songs in the media browser
>>> (the area that's usually on the left side of the screen), right click,
>>> and select "copy to collection: iPod".
>>
>> It will be interesting to see whether 2.3.0 does this any better with my
>> UMS-based Sansa Fuze. The last few versions have been incredibly slow
>> and spawned literally hundreds of processes doing the copying. It took
>> hours to copy over a few hundred MB.
> 
> Well, I did not try to copy via the right click, perhaps this works, I will 
> try as soon as possible. (My Kubuntu with KDE 4 is still on my testing 
> machine, as I have to check all features I am used to till I migrate my "big" 
> machine here)
> 
> But anyway this really a step backwards - from Amarok 1, I am used to copy the 
> songs from my collection via drag & drop on the ipod. Is this feature really 
> missing in Amarok 2?

I'm sure it would be relatively trivial to add a drop target for the
various collections you can copy to. Probably wont take long to knock up.

Some problems I've spotted on my travels:
 * Compilation and Album Artist support is missing (various patches here
but very much WIP and causes interesting breakage in the collection
list: http://gitorious.org/~coling/amarok/colings-amarok/commits/master)
As mentioned elsewhere, I think there is a libgpod issue with
albumartist support too but I think a relatively trivial one.

 * If there is a transfer in progress, it wont let me do add more to it.
It would be nice if it just tacked on the additional tracks to the end
of the transfer job.

 * If I try to transfer some ogg files, it says "The tracks are already
on the device" rather than "The device does not support this format".
Obviously some automatic transcoding is the ultimate end goal (I didn't
look to see if this has been reimplemented yet, but I guess not).

That's all from me. Very happy with the iPod support so far :)

KUTGW.

Col


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