Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
I realize your intent is to integrate the contents of the iPod into the
music tree (presumably so you can play directly from the iPod, or
manage/delete individual track on the iPod). However, why not make a
first pass that just supports simple "copy to player" functionality,
perhaps with an option to overwrite/erase contents first? That would
side-step the whole issue of the tree, and get basic mp3 player support
going. For anyone with a flash-based mp3 player, this is probably
sufficient, as they usually don't have a large storage capacity, so
anything on the player would likely be a duplicate of stuff already on
your hard drive in your mythmusic library. Here, I'm viewing mythmusic
external player support as more of just a "load 'n' go" function. I
realize that with larger, hard drive-based devices like the iPod, you
might want expanded capabilities, but that could be "phase 2".
Thoughts?
Sounds like a good plan.
I for one would welcome the ability (in future if not at the beginning)
to resample while sync'ing to a player device. My music is stored in a
mix of high bitrate Ogg, high bitrate MP3 and a few FLACs thrown in for
good measure. I've got a couple of mp3 players (my iRiver and my phone)
and sometimes I'd like to resample my high quality tracks to low
bitrates for use on the go with crappy headphones.
I know it could take a fair amount of time to re-encode everything, but
it could easily be an overnight job. It would hopefully be a matter of
tying into the existing decoder/encoder framework which would mean any
improvements made there (i.e. clustering etc.) would automatically come
here too.
I've not seen many player sync programs that can re-encode on the fly
like this...
I guess one problem may be determining whether or not to copy data back
or whether to re-encode a file alreayd on the device because we don't
know it originally came from Myth's higher quality original, but perhaps
some custom tags could be written to the file to indicate it's origins etc?
Just some thoughts....
Col
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