GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 576014
Add easy way to transfer songs from the ipod to the library
Last modified: 2018-05-24 14:12:34 UTC
Some people seem to miss that they can drag and drop or c&p songs from the ipod to the library source, and indeed it's not really obvious that this can be done. So I made a patch which adds a toolbar icon which does that (and I guess a menu item would be nice too). It just adds this capability to the ipod plugin, but should be easy to reuse in other parts of rhythmbox code. The only things that is missing is a nice icon, I think an arrow pointing at a symbol identical to the libray source icon would do the trick.
Created attachment 130992 [details] [review] Patch implementing what is described in this bug report Here is an initial patch for review. I haven't reused the existing function (used for CDs) since the icon and the name (extract) weren't appropriate and I also wanted a way to copy a subset of the current query model, not all the displayed songs. Let me know if having this in the UI makes sense to you or if it should be handled differently.
It does seem that users don't realise they can copy songs off ipods or other devices using drag and drop, so adding an obvious way to do it sounds like a good idea to me. I think a menu item would help too. I don't know what to do about finding an icon for it, though.
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