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Access Request for Rockbox Utility Source (One-Time Only)

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saratoga:
If git is a problem, you could also use the source tarball from our downloads page:

http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/source/RockboxUtility-v1.3.0-src.tar.bz2

biohacker001:
Thanks. I know it's designed as an installer, and quite possibly it would be a better idea to make a separate utility to do this... But i don't as of yet understand how the utilities "Auto-Detect" function works... Seeing that it's not preferred, i think i'm gonna study just that part, and make a utility to do this.

xpmule:
personally i avoid all syncing options in all my media players.
i have waaaay too much music to get into syncing and i have
an album centric collection where everything revolves around albums
as does my playing habits.. in other words i carefully select albums i want and add them.

had no idea the RB tool did any transferring lol

i use winamp on windows mainly because of the custom theme
and layout i have on it (theme uses classic pro)

I despise the windows media player media library layout and functionality.
Also i forget a lot how many people actually like doing something i hate (sync'ing)

Its nice to be able to do what you want how you want though.
And if you think there is a need for your tool/idea than go for it.
i too would agree that a separate tool sounds like a better concept to me.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: biohacker001 on October 17, 2012, 10:12:56 PM ---But i don't as of yet understand how the utilities "Auto-Detect" function works... Seeing that it's not preferred, i think i'm gonna study just that part, and make a utility to do this.

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Scan all drives and look for a file "/.rockbox/rockbox-info.txt". That's it. All other detection is only interesting if you don't have Rockbox already installed.


--- Quote from: xpmule on October 17, 2012, 11:08:10 PM ---had no idea the RB tool did any transferring lol

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It doesn't. And I don't consider it likely to get such a feature, except if others fork it, but a fork won't become the official installer.

biohacker001:

--- Quote from: xpmule on October 17, 2012, 11:08:10 PM ---
had no idea the RB tool did any transferring lol


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It doesn't... The whole point of my idea was to add the feature so you didn't need the massively straining load a regular media player creates when syncing. Since it's rockbox oriented, you could solve this by using batch/bash/command scripts to 1: check if the file is an appropriate type, and 2: if the file is in a correct format, copy it to the default location the user set for that media format. Using the OS's copy/delete commands would speed up the process and it wouldn't require the bulky media player to be running.

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