On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:38 +1000, James "Doc" Livingston wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 16:50 -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > I haven't heard anything about adding support for MTP devices (in fact > I'm not even sure what one is). Adding support for them should be done > in a similar way to how iPod support is done.
MTP is Multimedia Transport Protocol, which is a perver^w modified Picture Transfer Protocol that many digital cameras use. I think any device that carries the Plays For Sure sticker uses MTP. > There are a couple of questions whose answers affect exactly how you set > some of it up: > > * can tracks on the device be accessed with gnome-vfs? (if it's > mass-storage and mountable, then yes) There is a gphotofs, which is a FUSE filesystem module. Using that would limit it to Linux though. > * does libgphoto have a "device detected" signal or do you want RB to > tell you about all the devices and decide whether you support them? I was hoping RB would handle all the device detection stuff via HAL and then I'd just call libgphoto2 when appropriate. > Transfer and ripping have been working perfectly for me, and I'm told > that transcoding works okay. Known issues: > > * The UI needs work, as there is currently no way of cancelling a > transfer > * We probably need some minor API changes for transcoding I'd personally be happy with even just transfer. > Also, the full-ipod-support patch has an "ipod manager" object which > deals with the details of synchronisation and the like. It would be good > if we can turn this into a generic one, so that each player doesn't have > to implement it again. That really goes for any removable media device operation in an ideal world. Hubert Figuiere wrote up some thoughts on that semi-recently. http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?q=Digital+Audio Thanks for the feedback. -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.org _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
