Re: IPod never loaded after "Fix embedded artwork not being loaded"

2011/2/27 phantomjinx <[email protected]>:
> A better way would be to save off an artwork database for local itdbs.
> Christophe did suggest some time ago deprecating the idb_parse_file
> function and this bug adds credence to this notion. It may be a whole
> lot better to have local itdbs in the .gtkpod directory stored as
> sub-directories, ie. fake mountpoints complete with all the required
> files, including the Artwork database. This way a call to
> itdb_parse(mountpoint) would be trivial and all artwork accounted for.

Yep, from a libgpod point of view, that would be really great if
gtkpod did that ;) I really hate this itdb_parse_file API, nowadays
it's far too limiting.

>
> Is this workable? Do people think this is appropriate and whether this
> should be done before releasing version 2?
>

It's probably not important enough to delay gtkpod 2 just because of
it, unless you want to avoid tricky changes after the release.

Cheers,

Christophe

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