Syncing content to Boxee

[iBog]

I'm looking into developing a plugin for Mozilla's Songbird to sync content to Apple TV. http://getsongbird.com/

Songbird is the Firefox of media players... an open source and cross platform iTunes clone. Songbird can manage your media library and also provides a plugin architecture for extensions.

As I look into Songbird's plugin architecture and API, I'd like to get some thoughts from others.

1. Would you like an iTunes clone to sync content to your Apple TV running Boxee?

2. For the geeks, what protocol do you think makes the most sense to use? This would require the srvice to be running on the Apple TV. SSH/SCP, FTP, Webdav, AFP, CIFS/SMB, NFS? I'm thinking SSH since the patchstick creator installs this.

3. What path, on the Apple TV, should we use to copy content to? Is there a structure that Boxee would prefer?

[rwltrz]

I love songbird and in fact barely ever use itunes now, I do my browsing via songbird, mp3 downloads , you name it, love it, open source, have a bookmark for amazon mp3 so it is close to itunes store for me but drm free...BONUS, meets all my needs, would love to have songbird and boxee be connected somehow, only thing I cant figure out with songbird is why it just lists my songs in a folder, no artist or album folder organization like itunes, I dont share songbirds songs with itunes at all maybe thats why, anyhow songbird (besides some crashing) is a great app with many cool add ons.

[mkubilus]

If you are talking about syncing only stuff that needs to be synced, there is no better tool than rsync! :D