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

["Josiah Ritchie" <josiah ritchietribe net>]

Follow the direction on the website:
http://banshee-project.org/Distributions/Ubuntu

JSR/

2008/5/7 Timothy Collins <wookietim gmail com>:
> How do I unstall it on Ubuntu - it's not in the supported add/uninstall
> system yet...
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Tim T. <tim timmerman gmail com> wrote:
>
> > And then 0.99.1 comes out.. and fixes the problem..
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > TimT.
> >
> > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Tim T. <tim timmerman gmail com> wrote:
> > > 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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