Re: [Banshee-List] Automagic transcoding especially with iPod

["David Nielsen" <gnomeuser gmail com>]

2008/12/21 gregdavisfromnj <gregdavis ieee org>

I can't seem to figure out how to set up transcoding from my hard disk to an
iPod device.  I have ripped a lot of CDs to my hard disk using FLAC
encoding.  They are imported into my Banshee media library, and play quite
well.  Now I want to transfer them to my 2nd gen iPod nano.  So, (using
manual music management) I drag the files I want on the player from my media
library.  I expect they would be transcoded (decoded from FLAC, encoded to
something else).  Instead, I get an error for each file to the effect of
"cannot find a converter."  Terrific.  I opened the properties for my iPod
device in the left navigation tree, and in the properties page there is an
area for "Encode to" with a greyed out combo-box and edit button.  The text
for the combo-box is "No available profiles."  What gives?  I can't seem to
find anyone else with this problem, although I see lots of posts indicating
that I should be able to transcode from FLAC to, say, AAC, to transfer to my
iPod.

Another quirk, Banshee says that there is no free space on my iPod.
Instead, the free space is listed as that orange, "other" category.  If I
trim my media library down to only mp3s, and switch over to "synchronize my
device," the mp3s start to copy over.  But, it copes way too fast, and then
they don't actually show up in the device.  No errors.  No files.  Maybe
Banshee thinks it is full?  But why?

Using Banshee as grabbed from Fedora10 x86-64 repository (v1.4.0.1).

I'd love to help put a wiki node in your support wiki for how to get
transcoding working, but I still can't figure it out!

Sounds like:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558526

There is a patch, however it has not been commited to svn. I will ask the Fedora maintainer to issue an update with it applied (however that is likely only going to fix this for newly ripped cds since it's the tags not being set correctly).