Le mardi 26 avril 2005 Ã 18:32 +1000, Nicholas Gill (mythagel) a Ãcrit : > On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:51 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > > Fwiw, creating a playlist corresponding to the device doesn't work > > really nicely with an ipod (which contains a library and playlists like > > rhythmbox). Currently, the (read-only) ipod support creates a new source > > for the ipod files. Fwiw, I've got some code doing rb=>ipod > > synchronization at cfergeau.free.fr > > What i am considering is in particular the devices that are not like an > ipod. That is, flash based mp3 players without a db. This class of > players dump files in a folder which the device reads on startup. I had > originally thought of assigning an existing playlist to the device (the > user would select it when the device is attached) however i think it > would be clearer to have that association between the device plugged > into the computer and the playlist with its name.
If you can use hal to check whether a given hal udi correspond to such a flash player, then you can have a look at the ipod code to check how you can automatically show/hide a specific rhythmbox source when this player is plugged/unplugged (or more accurately, mounted/unmounted). > > > It should be done straight away (with a progress indicator, a dialog at > > first is probably enough). It would be particulary nice if whatever you > > do can easily be reused for other mp3 players ;) > Another vote for immediate. I'll have to consider this then, so just to > clarify, when a user drops a new song from the library into the device > specific playlist, it should perform that action immediately. Ok, i'll > make a mock up of some suggestions for progress indicators (copying, new > on device(copied to computer), new in playlist(copy to device)) > I'd write some one way code first (rb=>device is probably easiest) instead of creating mock up for everything ;) > Actually, now i realise something else i wanted to discuss, how should i > handle files that are new on the device? I had considered creating a > folder like ~/Music and dumping the files there and then adding to the > playlist. I'm not really following you... What are you calling "the playlist" ? Christophe _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
