Re: [Banshee-List] Syncing with a Samsung SCH-R360

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Bill Hammond <ka1ssr gmail com> wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 04:11 AM, Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Bill Hammond <ka1ssr gmail com> wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I am running Banshee 2.0.0 under Ubuntu 11.04 and am having trouble
>>> syncing with my Samsung SCH-R360 aka Freeform II.  The Samsung stores
>>> its music in the 'My Music' folder on the device.  However, Banshee puts
>>> it in the 'Music" folder.  Is there a way to tell Banshee about the 'My
>>> Music' folder?  I tried looking in the Preferences dialog but got a
>>> little confused.
>>
>> I'm guessing your device acts as a mass storage device ?
>> Banshee uses the information provided by the media-player-info .mpi
>> files, in order to know about the specific of each mass storage
>> device. To provide that info, please follow the steps described on
>> that blog post.
>> http://ernstfamily.ch/jonathan/2010/10/help-me-make-your-music-player-or-phone-recognized-as-such-under-linux/
>>
>> As a stopgap measure until you get the proper info through an update
>> to media-player-info, you can create a text file named
>> ".is_audio_player" in the top-level folder of your device and put the
>> info in there. The syntax is described in this page :
>> http://live.gnome.org/Banshee/CommonQuestions/IsAudioPlayerFile
>>
>
> Hello, Bertrand!  Thanks for the pointers.  I made an .is_audio_player
> file and met with 99% success.  Banshee knows where to look for audio
> files now and I can sync.  I still can't display cover art from the
> Samsung on Banshee (and I know there's art in the files), but I'm
> probably specifying the wrong values in the config file.  Just a little
> problem.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.  I'd be happy to post the contents of my
> config file once the tweaking is done if you like.

Please follow the instructions on the blog post I linked to, and give
the info as a comment there. This way, everybody with the same phone
will be able to use it on Linux, with any media player.

-- 
Bertrand Lorentz