Caption: 2 MTP devices connected, and songs playing from iPod
This is a bit overdue, but initial support for MTP devices has arrived. To use it, you require limbtp >= 0.3.0 installed on the system, and a device supported by libmtp of course.
Part of the reason this took so long is that I'm starting to notice a lot of potentially reusable code, and will probably soon refactor to reflect this. MTP devices are strange beasts, because their filesystem can't be directly accessed. As a result, Amarok 1 and Windows Media Player et al can only do file management of tracks on these devices, not actually play directly off of them. I'm going to be working on an idea that allows playing off of them to be possible, because let's face it, A2 is an audio player, not just a file manager.
Thanks again to everyone who donated MTP devices to the Amarok group. You're the ones who make this possible. Support is still pretty basic, so please don't file bugs on this yet, but be ready to at some point in the semi-near future.
Edit: Snapshot of 3 Mentioned Devices
2 comments:
Just curious, when playing a tracks from portable devices that support playcount tracking, is the playcount updated anywhere (on the device or in the local database)?
Not yet, but it's planned.
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