The desktop beyond F10

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:37 -0500, Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > It would be interesting to gather some hard data about how many people 
> > rip to mp3, ogg, flac and wav, but I suspect we don't have a clean way 
> > to get this data.
> 
> Don't the various music players each have some kind of xml config file 
> somewhere? Do these files have any information on what formats the 
> players support? That could be a way to at least have an idea of how 

Yes, 10-usb-music-players.fdi.  And I'm pretty sure rhythmbox will
already transcode to a format the player supports, but of course
nautilus won't since it doesn't care what type the device is.

Dan

> many support ogg vs mp3 only if it does. (If it doesn't, could it be 
> added? How are those files maintained?)
> 
> Just an idea, anyhow.
> 
> ~m
>