iPod & generic mp3 player support (was: Re: [mythtv] mythmusic tree construction - can it be changed ?)

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 2:30, Eskil Heyn Olsen wrote:
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> slowly getting started on iPod support,

Are you planning on making the iPod support generic?  That is, basically 
make a generic 'external music device' framework, and have the 
iPod-specific interface either inherit from or plug into it?

The reason I ask is because my itch to get mp3 player support has 
finally reached critical mass for scratching, and I was thinking of 
coding up simple support for copy a playlist to a device.  Initially I 
was just thinking of players that can be treated as simple mass storage 
devices, which begs the question, do we give Myth a device name and try 
to handle mounting/unmounting, or do we simply specify a mount point or 
path and leave it as an exercise for the user to set up 
automount/autofs properly?

Other than that, it should be quite easy... simply select 'copy playlist 
to <device>'; the code could optionally calculate space requirements, 
etc., and then just copy the files over.

Just wondering if I should bother, or if I should wait to be able to 
plug in/inherit from your iPod framework, or if we should collaborate.

-JAC