[mythtv] Mythmusic portable device support

[Duncan Palmer]

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
> 
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