(I'm proxy-posting this for my SoC student, who already posted it on the Amarok blog, so that it gets wider distribution on Planet KDE. Apologies to anyone seeing this twice.)
So, what's an MTP device? MTP = Media Transfer Protocol, a protocol Microsoft came up with for media devices. Examples of devices that use it? Pretty much every Creative Zen, iRiver, Samsung and Sandisk media device you can think of, which is why the support for these devices is so important.
But I'm at an impasse, since I don't actually
have any of these devices. The lack of devices is actually a pretty common issue for the Amarok project, which is where we come to you =). If you have access to a media device which you can donate for development, please let the Amarok team know at:
amarok-device-donation@emailgoeshere.com. A list of devices that the project is looking for is available
here. This will ensure that the people with these devices are happy people when Amarok 2 rolls around. Of particular urgency to the 2.0 release is the need for an MTP device (see list of MTP devices:
here) Any of those devices will be a great help.
And, once I have one of those devices in hand and support starts rolling out, I ask anyone who has an MTP device to check out a copy of Amarok 2 from your friendly neighborhood svn server to help me test things out and make support be
good (see:
here)
Lastly, thanks in advance to all of you!
