Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee and a USB MP3 Player

["Tim T." <tim timmerman gmail com>]

I'm wondering whether fdi is at all relevant here.

Both Timothy and myself have problems using an mp3 player that
required a .is_audio_player to be detected by banshee, not a player
that uses mtp protocol (where I think the fdi's come in; correct me if
I'm wrong)

For instance, I use an mp3 player that takes SD cards as media.. I
transfer the music directly to the card

Just tested with  Rhythmbox; this detects both the N95 (in USB mass
storage mode) and the SD card as an audio player (and sees the music
on them, if the .is_audio_player file is present.)

Decided to do some digging:

I found references to is_audio_player only in MassStorageDap.cs
Unfortunately, turns out that this file is patched by  the packaging in ubuntu.
Specifically, line 108 in this file is changed
from
           if(player_device["portable_audio_player.access_method"] !=
"storage" &&
-                !File.Exists(IsAudioPlayerPath)) {

to
            if(!IsMassStorage (player_device) &&
!File.Exists(IsAudioPlayerPath)) {

Unfortunately, taking out that part of the patch doesn't seem to help..


Ok, I don't know anything about C#, but I am enough of a programmer
that I can do some debugging.. If somebody can point me to a tutorial
on using a debugger with C#.. ;-) (Preferably using something like
gdb.. )

TimT.


2008/5/6 Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com>:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah ritchietribe net>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if something changed in the fdi structure in the Hardy
> > upgrade that changed how Banshee saw it. I think the FDI would be
> > referenced if available before the .is_audio_player file would be
> > given any attention. I may be totally off on this, but it gives you
> > something to look at. At some point I submitted fdi files to Ubuntu
> > for some other devices to identify them as music players. You could
> > probably accomplish this pretty easily.
> >
>
> Yeah, quite possibly related to the (now fixed) bug in Hardy:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal-info/+bug/215761. Messed up a
> lot of different players at the time.
>
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