libimobiledevice support

[Danielle Foré]

having support for iPods and iPhones is a make or break feature for any music player.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Managing a mobile device from a music player always sounded like a stupid idea to me - why the hell should I install/use an apple music player to manage a phone? Maybe it's better to split sync into a separate app.

[Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)]

I'm interested in hearing others opinions on this. I too am not convinced the best approach is to handle syncing in an app.

I think that instead of syncing music in BeatBox, contacts in Dexter, Videos from another app, etc., we should have one app to sync everything and anything.

[Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)]

This would, of course, require a central communication between all apps such as LibraryKit.

[Sam Tate (samtatr)]

I would have thought that a device sync in Switchboard would be the best - Beatbox should handle the actual syncing of the files in the background, since it manages the library - but the UI and settings should be a plug in Switchboard :)

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

samtate: actually, BeatBox shouldn't care about maintaining yet-another-library - library management should be done once and for all apps. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/librarykit