Request: Rockbox driver/amaroK-plugin for portable players

Bug #49099 reported by Daniel Robitaille
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jean Parpaillon <email address hidden>
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:25:49 +0200
Subject: amarok: Miss a Rockbox driver for portable players interface
Package: amarok
Version: 2:1.4.0a-0ubuntu1
Severity: wishlist

Rockbox is a replacement firmware for a lot of portable players (some iRivers, iPods, Archos).
It could be interesting to have a driver for the portable player interface for this firmware, which use some of these
specificities:
- put a cover of the album in the directory (quite like 'Rockbox Cover Creator' script does)
- playlist management

Regards, Jean

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers dapper-updates
 APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper-backports'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-23-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages amarok depends on:
ii amarok-engines 2:1.4.0a-0ubuntu1 output engines for the amaroK audi
ii amarok-xine [amarok- 2:1.4.0a-0ubuntu1 xine engine for the amaroK audio p
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexscalibar1 1.0.4-5 Library for audio-signal manipulat
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.3-1ubuntu5 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa [libgl1] 6.5.1-0ubuntu12 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-0ubuntu1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpod0 0.3.2-0ubuntu1 a library to read and write songs
ii libice6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libifp4 1.0.0.2-2 communicate with iRiver iFP audio
ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.21-3ubuntu1 mysql database client library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libpq4 8.1.3-4 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-1ubuntu3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.9-0.0ubuntu2 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libsm6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu2 X11 Session Management library
ii libsqlite3-0 3.2.8-1ubuntu1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.0.3-1ubuntu5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtag1c2a 1.4-3 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii libtunepimp2c2a 1:0.3.0-9.1ubuntu4 MusicBrainz tagging library and si
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.10a-22ubuntu1 userspace USB programming library
ii libvisual0.2 0.2.0-2ubuntu1 Audio visualization framework
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu9 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6ubuntu4 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages amarok recommends:
ii kdemultimedia-kio-plugi 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu3 enables the browsing of audio CDs
ii ruby 1.8.2-1 An interpreter of object-oriented

-- no debconf information

Revision history for this message
Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote :

Thanks for your report. Your idea might get more attention and have
the possibility of being implemented if you would submit a
specification for this.

You should first check whether it already exists at the Ubuntu specs
page (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs) in Launchpad. If
that is the case, feel free to contact the drafter of that spec about
your comments/suggestions. Otherwise you can start writing a spec
following the steps described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications.

Another location for further information would be directly with the developers and their community at http://amarok.kde.org/

Revision history for this message
Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

do you know which package contains these drivers?

Changed in amarok:
status: Unconfirmed → In Progress
Changed in amarok:
status: In Progress → Unconfirmed
Revision history for this message
Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

I'm afraid this isn't a bug.

Sarah, both Rhythmbox and amaroK use libgpod0 directly to access the iPod. This probably has to get abstracted out to a more general purpose mechanism for this to work right.

Changed in amarok:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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