Re: [Banshee-List] Exporting playlist to iPod, flac to mp3, file size problem

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 06/11/2011 10:55 PM, lister171254 wrote:
> I'm running version 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 11 and found a problem similar to a
> problem reported (and solved) in 2009.
>
> I have a playlist of FLAC songs that I'm trying to sync to an iPod.  They
> are correctly the converted to MP3, as per the iPod "Device Properties", and
> the converted files appear correctly in the iPod's file system, with
> reasonable files sizes (generally 3-8 MB). However, the syncing process
> stops prematurely when the iPod gets "full" after about 300 songs.
>
> The iPod capacity graphic is all blue, indicating a full iPod, and Banshee
> refuses to add additional songs to it.  The capacity of the iPod is 4GB so
> with an average size of the converted songs, I should only have about 1.8GB.
>
> If I disconnect and reconnect the iPod to Banshee it reports correctly that
> the iPod is less than 50% full.

There is already a bug filed about Banshee miscalculating the space left 
on the device when using transcoding. There is a patch on the bug so it 
could be helpful if you tried the patch and told us if it works for you.
Thanks