Amarok SoC: Media Devices + Awesome iPod support

Monday, April 28. 2008

Amarok SoC: Media Devices + Awesome iPod support

Introducing Alejandro Wainzinger (xevix on IRC), who is going to be working on media device support in Amarok for SoC 2008:

My name is Alejandro Wainzinger, and I'm going for a Computer Science B.S. at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. This summer, I'll be bringing back media device support to Amarok for Apple iPods, MTP and generic devices, and making them fly. I chose this project because I own an iPod, and got frustrated with the speed of loading an iPod with a large database, sync'ing of songs/playlists and album art, unlogged crashes after trying to put a 10,000 song queue onto the iPod, and slightly unreliable iPod model detection. That said, I loved having iPod capability in Amarok, and I couldn't see Amarok 2 without media device support.

Alejandro is going to work on getting normal functionality for all three types of devices, and then really taking the iPod plugin to town.

Rumor has it he's then going to attempt making collections out of the devices...

Posted by Jeff Mitchell in jefferai at 06:52 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hello!

First I'd like to say that this is for sure a great project and I'm happy it got selected by google.. but according to this text the Device Detection is again going into amarok itself... should'nt it be in solid.. or did I understand something not correct?

Best regards
Bernhard

#1 Bernhard on 2008-04-28 08:01 (Reply)

Device detection is already handled inside Amarok via Solid. But once the devices are detected, the plugins that use them are not yet working...

#1.1 jefferai on 2008-04-28 18:20 (Reply)

iPod touch support !

#2 Bill on 2008-04-28 08:20 (Reply)

cough iPhone support cough

#2.1 Luke on 2008-04-29 13:04 (Reply)

"Rumor has it he's then going to attempt making collections out of the devices..."

Woo!
xevix++

#3 Casey on 2008-04-28 11:02 (Reply)

mucha suerte, capo!

#4 JuanTelez on 2008-04-28 14:22 (Reply)

"Rumor has it he's then going to attempt making collections out of the devices..."

Does this mean... play streaming direct from device? (without for example going through a 3rd party like njstream). This would be a killer feature for those of use with supported media devices.

#5 Bill on 2008-05-07 01:56 (Reply)

Yes.

For most devices it would probably involve writing song data out to a temporary file, and having the engine play that temporary file. Just as a limitation of many devices. However, the idea would be to make playback seamless, or with as minimal of a pause/gap/etc as possible. So you could treat your device's tracks like normal ones for the purpose of playback.

#5.1 jefferai on 2008-05-07 14:14 (Reply)

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