On recognizing music players in hal/hal-info

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Nov 14 10:20:06 PST 2007


On Mittwoch, 14. November 2007, Martin Pitt wrote:
> It seems to me that the current list of music players is hard to
> maintain, harder to get and keep right, and will always be behind the
> state of the art in stable releases. Maybe this should be replaced by
> a more heuristical approach, like checking whether the drive actually
> contains music, and (mostly) only music files?

I don't think this would work, because then any USB stick of USB-HD would get 
detected as musicplayer because there are mp3 files. And this say also not if 
the device can play or record any music. 

DAnny


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