iPod and generic music player support (was: Re: [mythtv] Fwd: New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins)

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 07 October 2005 02:37 pm, Eskil Heyn Olsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:35 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > > On that note ; I've got a pretty complete shoutcast decoder going, and
> > > started working on ipod support and then it struck me ; is doing all
> > > this in mythmusic going to be voided suddenly by mfd/mfe ? Should I
> > > focus on those two instead ?
> >
> > Shouldn't really matter; if you design it cleanly/modularly, it should
> > be relatively trivial to port the features from one to the other.
>
> Even with the shoutcast thing, I've had to poke at other components -
> and I'd rather do it directly in mfd if eg. mfd is supposed to take over
> in the next 3-6 months. If it's year(s) away, might as well stick with
> mythmusic. Also I don't know how different mfd's objects are from
> mythmusic - it looks like the decoders are 99% similar.

I'd just do it in mythmusic for now - the code is similar enough to port over 
easily.

How are you handling the UI for streams?

Isaac