On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:35 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > On that note ; I've got a pretty complete shoutcast decoder going, and > > started working on ipod support and then it struck me ; is doing all > > this in mythmusic going to be voided suddenly by mfd/mfe ? Should I > > focus on those two instead ? > > Shouldn't really matter; if you design it cleanly/modularly, it should > be relatively trivial to port the features from one to the other.
Even with the shoutcast thing, I've had to poke at other components - and I'd rather do it directly in mfd if eg. mfd is supposed to take over in the next 3-6 months. If it's year(s) away, might as well stick with mythmusic. Also I don't know how different mfd's objects are from mythmusic - it looks like the decoders are 99% similar. > How are you planning on doing iPod support? Does the iPod act like a > regular sbp2/usb-storage device, or does it require special libraries? It's a sbp2 device. You need a special library to read it's database. Music files are stored with hashed names, and might not contain id3 info (hence you want to read the db). And yes, I'm going for a fairly modular interface ala the Decoder objects, so people can implement support for other plugable devices. Plan was, let the surrounding system handle mounting them, when a device is detected (ala inserting a audio cd), it'll just appear in the tree as a sibling to "All My Music". As for the mechanism to mount it, yeah, needs external help (well, I run Ubunto, so my ipod just appears under /media, happy happy joy joy). The 'M' menu will let you copy over playlists, albums of entire artists groups, depending on where the cursor is. And of course it'll import from the ipod in a similar matter. But first I need to finish up the shoutcast thingy. eskil ---
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