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#261 Cannot transfer while jukebox busy
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2012-09-13
2011-11-17
Anonymous
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I think it would be neat to implement a queuing functionality where as music files are being transfered to the Zen that I can add other files/folders during the process and it add them to the end of the transfer list, rather than requiring me to wait until it's done. When transferring a lot of music, it's time consuming and inconvenient to copy a desired subset scattered in various folders, without having to wait the whole time.
This is an issue for libmtp, but basically you are asking for 2 drivers to drive one car at the same time, it's just not viable.
This is because libmtp is an "Initiator implementation of the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)" this means that it initiates a connection and keeps it alive until the user closes it. This must happen because of the requirements of the protocol.
If the controller (such as: Banshee, Jukebox, or Gnomad2) closed the connection after each read or write and re opened it each time it needed to access the device the result would be a tripling of the transfer time.
and while this would allow the possibility for queueing as you put it, it would likely be more of a detriment than a benefit, don't you think?
Also you can select multiple directories at once with the [CTRL] key and if enabled in the options the Gnomad2 can descend into directories and add the files.
If that is not enough then I'm concerned, for your file management and as to how you could have such a large collection legally that would require more than a basic [Music > Artist > Album > Tracks] setup.