portable_audio_player.type,access_method

[Jeff Mitchell]

Elias Probst wrote:
> 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
>   
I don't understand how this is related.  And HAL already has information 
about supported metadata formats.

--Jeff