portable_audio_player.type,access_method

[Elias Probst]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 04:35:52 David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:05 -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > The 10-usb-music-players.fdi file has for each device a
> > portable_audio_player.access_method key which is defined in the spec as
> > mandatory, as well as portable_audio_player.type key that isn't in the
> > spec at all.  Both are defined as strings.

What about adding information about supported metadata formats 
(id3v/vorbiscomment/etc.) to each player?

This would make such ugly GUI workarounds like this 
http://eliasprobst.eu/~elias/stuff/screenshots/bugs.kde.org/amarok/meta-multi/mediaplayer-propertiers.png 
(New) needless.
Please take a look at this KDE bug comment for some more details:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119539#c30

Regards, Elias P.
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