Re: [Banshee-List] MTP-Device Decode to

[Michael Knepher <mknepher bluethingy com>]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Georg Felix Dües <georg duees de> wrote:
> 2009/4/7 Nicholas Doyle <niskel gmail com>
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 12:15 -0700, Georgf.d wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> > i've got a Problem, or an issue for you.
>> > My Music ist stored in Flac Files on my Computer.
>> > I've got a Sansa Clip MP3-Player which also supports Flac and MP3
>> > File-Format.
>> > I Selectet "Code -To: MP3" in the MTP-Device Section.
>> > When i'm adding Flac Files to my Sansa, they arent convertet, instead
>> > banshee copies those files as flac.
>> > Is this already a known problem?
>> > Is there any issue to solve this Problem?
>>
>> This was a problem if the Flac files were ripped from CD with Banshee.
>> It has since been fixed but I forget if the fix affected previously
>> ripped content. If this is the problem you are running in to, you have
>> to reset the file's mimetype in the Banshee DB or something along those
>> lines.
>
> How can i change the MIME Type??? in the Banshee DB?
> Mfg
>
> Georgf.d


This sounds more like the fact that Banshee currently will only
transcode files that are in a format that is not supported by your
device. So, for instance, if your device supports mp3 and flac, but
not ogg, mp3 and flac files will be copied directly, but ogg files
will be transcoded into the format specified in the "code-to"
preferences for the device. There was a recent thread in the mailing
list that touched on this issue, and there is this bug, as well:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531789

A possible short-term hack could be to find your device's hal info in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi
and comment out the references to audio/flac.

Michael Knepher