> G'day everyone, > > I've had a play around and whipped up a patch that tries to add > (read-only) support for "generic audio players" to Rhythmbox. As I don't > have one, the patch hasn't received any more testing than "it compiles". > > That said it's a fairly simple implementation, and should (in theory) > work with any player that > a) is reported by HAL to have the "portable_audio_player" capability > b) is reported by HAL to use the "storage" access mechanism. > > So basically it should work if HAL knows that it's a audio player, and > doesn't use some funky communication protocol. It will ignore any > database on players that have them, but should work by scanning the > player's disk for tracks.
Speaking of communications protocols. The other day I tripped over the njb library [1] which would allow us to add support for most of the Creative and Dell mp3 players. Pete [1] http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
