Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Ipod Plugin Enhancements

[David Martin - Airgead Studio <david airgeadstudio net>]

Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> 2009/3/28 David Martin - Airgead Studio <david airgeadstudio net 
> <mailto:david airgeadstudio net>>
>
>     I think you are right. Externally managed podcast feeds do need to
>     appear in the podcast plugin along with ones that rhythmbox
>     manages. I'm not sure the base way to manage that. At the moment
>     my thought is that we re-use the watch for new files mechanism
>     that the main library uses and apply that to the podcast library
>     as well. Externally managed podcasts would get placed in there by
>     whatever app is downloading them and rhythmbox would pick them up
>     and add them to its podcast library.
>
>
> Yep, this is exactly what I would have suggested doing, so it makes 
> sense to me at least :)
Cool. Looks like that's the way to go then.
> In the end, we'll probably want a Synchronization Settings window to 
> choose which playlists, podcasts, ... to synchronize, but for this 
> particular project, a Synchronize Podcasts menu item is plenty enough, 
> we can improve things later.
That's pretty much where I can see the synchronise thing going too. 
Given the number of years its been since I coded anything significant I 
think the podcast sync will indeed be plenty enough.
> Maybe it's better to hold a little bit on that one, there's a media 
> player library synchronization google summer of code project for 
> rhythmbox, and some students applied to it and said they'd implement 
> this as part of their gsoc. So to avoid duplicate work, it's probably 
> better to wait for the list of projects that have been approved as 
> socs for this year.
OK. No problem. I'm happy to let the summer of code folks handle that. 
Having a generic autofill that worked for all devices would be better 
than an ipod specific one.

I'll raise two bugzilla records to cover the external podcasts and the 
podcast sync and start looking at code.

While I'm thinking about it - is there any particular development tool 
that's recommended for rhythmbox development? I was planning to keep it 
simple with gedit and the command line but if there's something everyone 
uses I'll use it as well for the sake of consistency.

Cheers
Dave