GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 354557
[PATCH] iTunes style checkboxes for automatic syncing of music files
Last modified: 2010-02-03 22:31:16 UTC
The user should be able to select the files they want to have Banshee sync with their audio player. This could be done using a check box for each song (like iTunes has).
Created attachment 72286 [details] [review] patch to add iTunes style checkboxes for syncing
When playlist syncing support works, smart playlists should probably include the option to only select checked songs. Also, I recently tried this patch on a more up to date CVS build, and it failed to upgrade the database properly.
Created attachment 73109 [details] [review] updated iTunes checkbox patch - smart playlist support This fixes the database update bug in the previous patch, and adds a checkbox to the smart playlist editor for only including checked songs. This will be important when syncing playlists to an iPod.
I'm putting this on target 0.12.x because of the freeze.
Just out of curiosity, is anyone else having issues getting this patch to apply? It seems to have a lot of old /cvs/gnome/banshee stuff. I'm using Subversion and I do not see a way to currently check Banshee out via CVS. Maybe a new DIFF done against done against the current trunk is necessary?
CVS went out of style at Banshee. SVN is the new CVS. :-) I'm betting that some cleanup of the patch will be needed. I'm going to re-open it since we haven't seen or heard from Michael on this one in about a year in hopes that someone else will be able to pickup where he left off and bring the patch to SVN.
As noted above, this rather ancient patch doesn't apply to trunk.
I think this could be closed now as 1.5.3 finally supports (auto-)sync with a specified playlist, which should solve the problem.
(In reply to comment #8) > I think this could be closed now as 1.5.3 finally supports (auto-)sync with a > specified playlist, which should solve the problem. I think that checkboxes in iTunes also allow you to control which songs will be ignored during playback (especially in 'shuffle' mode). Obviously a similar effect can be achieved with playlists, though, so it might not be worth keeping this bug open for that benefit alone. Are there other uses for checkboxes? If the main benefits can all be covered by playlists, I doubt checkboxes are worth the programming effort and visual clutter, and I'd agree that this should be closed.