When I plug in my old Motorola Razr phone, Ubuntu recognizes it as a music device and opens Rhythmbox. I'm able to drag and drop music onto the phone.
Unfortunately, my phone only has 256MB of storage, and I keep my music library in the FLAC format. Each song is about 30MB in size, and my phone doesn't understand FLAC.
Because of this, I have to re-encode my music into lower-bitrate MP3 files, then copy those files manually onto the phone - instead of using the convenient drag and drop interface.
Rhythmbox should know about 'supported' audio formats for devices it recognizes, and automatically re-encode music on the fly when copying to those devices. If device storage is limited, music should be re-encoded at a lower bitrate to save space.
This kind of thing should probably happen for video and pictures as well. Maybe adding this behaviour to Conduit is the answer.
