[Banshee-List] banshee "hangs" on "waiting for transcoder"

[Christopher Friedt <cfriedt visible-assets com>]

Hello all,

I've connected a new ipod out of the box, and i've managed to copy a 
single song to it. After dragging & dropping the song into the ipod, i 
usually just right click on the ipod and say 'synchronize ipod -> save 
manual changes'.

Five songs also works. Safe to assume true for n songs?

Apparrently not, because when I try to copy over my 'ipodlist' playlist 
it just hangs there after I hit "save manual changes" saying that it's 
"waiting for transcoder". After I cancel, then it still says "waiting 
for transcoder" and the 'synchronize ipod' context menu entry is greyed 
out so i can't try it again.

I realize that copying 3416 songs might take a bit of prep time, but I 
let it run for over an hour and there was no progress - it was still 
waiting on the transcoder for the very first song. The CPU usage was 
also still at zero, so I would assume that no actual transcoding was 
taking place during this time.

Is there a self-test to ensure that the transcoder is actually working? 
Why would it work for one or five songs but not for 3416?


~/Chris