Re: [Banshee-List] howto avoid creating dirs on flash mp3 player

[Julien Sobrier <julien sobrier net>]

Ben Parsons wrote:
> For what it's worth... I would also like to see a solution to this. My
> current solution has been to manually select all the files and move
> them to the root. You can edit the path manually (via gconf I think),
> but that changes the behaviour of the music library as a whole. If
> there were distinct variables (one for the path to the music library
> on the hd, and one for the hardware player), that would be a
> solution... I just hadn't mentioned it as banshee seems to be under
> pretty active development. I suppose that this is a reasonable
> request, but I'm not sure how big a priority it is (even though I'm
> interested in it myself)
> 
> Ben.
> 
> On 03/11/06, Alex Sutcliffe <sutcliffe alex gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a cheap flash based mp3 player that I can drag songs to using
>> banshee. Only problem is that the device only seems to play songs in the /
>> dir of it's filesystem. Is there a way to get banshee to just drop the files
>> in the top level directory?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>>
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If your music player is part of 10-usb-music-players.fdi, there should
be a field to indicate where the music files should go:
<append key="portable_audio_player.audio_folders"
type="strlist">MUSIC/</append>

I think this property is used by Banshee.

So, the first step would be to check if your MP3 player is part of the
file, and if the audio_folders property exists and set to the correct
directory. If not, you can update it, and send a patch to the HAL
project (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=hal)

Julien