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



Does latest svn support transfer to other devices ?
(Also, though much less relevant.. is there support for packaging
latest svn as a debian package... ?)

I'll give it a try tomorrow night.. I'll let you know how this turns out.

TimT.


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
> Please svn up to the very latest and try it.  All your problems should be fixed.
>
>
>
>  On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Tim T. <tim timmerman gmail com> wrote:
>  > 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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