[mythtv] Mythmusic portable device support

[Steven Adeff]

On 9/9/06, Duncan Palmer <dunk_palmer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Only 1 patch of 2 made it thru with the last message,
> so here's the second one...
>
> --- Duncan Palmer <dunk_palmer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been doing a bit of work on mythmusic to allow
> > me
> > to sync music to a portable device (an ipod in my
> > case). I haven't got too far with this yet, but
> > have working code that allows me to export all
> > tracks
> > in the active play queue to an ipod (see attached
> > patches against 0.19). I thought it might be a good
> > time to see if I can get some comments on my
> > approach... if people like it, I'd like to try and
> > get
> > this functionality included in mythmusic
> > eventually...
> >
> > My aim in the long run is to be able to plug in a
> > portable device, and:
> >  * play music from the device without having to
> > first
> >    import it
> >  * export music to the device
> >  * carry out limited management of the device (e.g.
> >    delete music from it)
> >
> > To this end, I've created a MusicStore, which
> > implements operations common to all sources of
> > music:
> >  * loading metadata from store
> >  * exporting metadata to the store
> >  * changing metadata in the store
> >  * exporting new tracks to the store
> >
> > The attached patches do the following:
> > * MusicStore and the derived class IpodMusicStore
> > are
> >   implemented with enough features to allow music to
> > be
> >   exported to a portable device.
> > * A DiskMonitor has been implemented to allow
> >   connection of removable disks to be detected (I
> > had
> >   to make some changes to the MediaMonitor to make
> > this
> >   work, as that class is biased towards CD
> > handling).
> > * DatabaseBox has been modified to add an extra
> > button
> >
> >   to the active play list menu. This allows the
> >   contents ofthe play list to be exported to a
> > portable
> >   device when connected.
> >
> > The ipod support requires libgpod (I'm using 0.3.2),
> > which in turn relies on glib( >2.8), for ipod
> > support.
> > Does anyone know of other MythTv components that
> > rely
> > directly or indirectly on glib?
> >
> > Things I'm still working on:
> > 1. Deleting tracks from a portable. I'm thinking of
> >    adding a new item to the tree in DatabaseBox.
> > This
> >    will allow music from a portable to be selected
> > for
> >
> >    playback or deletion.
> > 2. Playing tracks from a portable. I think the best
> > bet
> >    here is to treat portables in a similar fashion
> > to
> >    CD's as follows:
> >      * All metadata has a store handle
> >      * Operations specific to a store (e.g. removing
> >
> >        all CD tracks from AllMusic) specify the
> > store
> >        handle.
> > 3. Working with non-ipod portables. Should be fairly
> >
> >    straighforward...
> > 4. Ultimately, portables are very similar to CD's
> > and
> >    so I should be able to write a CDMusicStore to
> >    handle CD's.
> >
> > There are other small things to be done, such as
> > storing the portable mount point in the database,
> > allowing the user to configure it, and providing
> > proper progress reporting when exporting tracks to a
> > portable...
> >
> > Comments or other help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dunk
> >

a lot of people will be very happy for your work on this!

-- 
Steve
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