[gpodder] More on device sync
- From: Joseph Wickremasinghe <jnwickremasinghe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gpodder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:53:12 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Thomas,
Lots of discussion on device syncing in the last few days! :)
I've uploaded my proposed patch as bug 1579, as the patch seemed too big to
send to the mailing list.
https://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579
As I mentioned earlier, I started with the sync code from 2.20 and looked to
add it back into the 3.0 codebase.
After applying the patch, gPodder will sync all feeds, all episodes to the
selected device if the user selects 'Sync Device' from the (newly added)
'Device' menu. (I haven't added any context menu items for syncing yet). The
user can configure their (filesystem-based) device from the 'Devices' tab in
the preferences dialog, and there are additional device settings accessible
from the 'Edit config' window as well.
The code for iPod sync is included, but I removed 'iPod' from the device
options drop-down for now. I updated the database schema to add a
'sync_to_device' and 'playlist_name' columns to the podcast table and
'is_played' to episodes. Schema version is now 3.
I can certainly rewrite this an extension if that's the best way to approach
this. Aside from that, I would also want to do the following:
1. Enable iPod support
2. Get 'custom sync name' working. {episode.title} works, but I can't figure
out where the episode published date is stored in the 3.0 object model.
3. Update the interface to allow the user to specify which podcasts are synced
(at present it's all or nothing)
4. Add in functionality to create a separate playlist for each podcast
5. Update syncing to allow a episode that has been deleted on the device to be
marked for deletion within gPodder.
This is of course all assuming that what I've done so far make sense... :)
Please review the patch & let me know what you think!
Joseph
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