iPod and generic music player support (was: Re: [mythtv] Fwd: New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins)

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 07 October 2005 03:13 pm, Eskil Heyn Olsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:23 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > Why not side-step the issue of dependencies altogether and use
> > > *external* dependencies (i.e., external scripts/applications), like
> > > mythvideo does for movie info?  That way we'd have a generic
> > > infrastructure capable of supporting many players, not just the iPod.
> >
> > Much better idea.
>
> I was more looking at doing it like the Decoders in mythmusic. Ie. a
> hierachy of objects that know how to handle their plugable device. Then
> let configure decide if you're building for support for device a and/or
> b. The objects would be instantiated when mythmusic starts up, if they
> see the device appear (ie. an ipod mounted), they just load up the info
> and add it to the tree.
>
> I've already got the ipod db reader split out into a 6000 lines piece of
> code libmythpod library (97kb) that just depends on libid3, libz and
> libqt to build.

That's fine, except -- libid3 or libid3tag?

Isaac