Amarok/Archives/MediaDevicesPlans

This are the results of ferai and aumuell chatting on IRC on 9 July 2007.

• Integration into Collection
  • Show device contents as another collection in collection browser
  • Hopefully provide a combined view of all collections
  • Use d'n'd for copying to media devices
  • Hide transfer queue from user, start transfers immediately in a background thread

• Make media devices kio based
  • provide access to all music tracks as files
  • handle playlists, stats, ... as special files (e.g. text files containging key:value pairs)
  • this should provide a generic interface to all devices
  • device specific code will go into kio slave only
  • phonon will play all music on any media device

• Playlist handling
  • Provide option to 'copy' and to 'sync' regular playlists
  • Delete tracks from the device if a playlist is synced and if it is not on any other playlist
  • Create a special 'Keep this' playlist for manually copied stuff