Patch for portable_audio_player spec

Gabriel Burt gabriel.burt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 13:30:19 PDT 2006


Danny and/or David, could you look at this?  Thanks!

On 3/26/06, Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt at gmail.com> wrote:
> After some further consideration, I think the
> portable_audio_player.filepath_format property should be removed and a
> new property, folder_depth, should be created.  The main point of the
> filepath_format property was to convey whether the device only supported
> a limited file hierarchy, but it ended up conveying much more than that
> - specifying exactly what directory structure the music files should go
> in, when that's really not appropriate (since the hardware doesn't care
> except in the hierarchy depth case).  The folder to write files out to
> can be taken from the first entry in the audio_folders property.  This
> change will allow the application to choose the appropriate directory
> structure (/podcasts/NPR/****, /Artist/Album/00 - Title, etc).
>
> I've attached a patch that make this change in the hal-spec.xml.in as
> well as another patch that adds some of these new properties for a few
> audio devices.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gabriel Burt
>
>
>


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