Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee - Nokia N9 Support ?

[Mark Walton <markwalton1967 aol com>]

David,
For the record, I've just taken the Mint14 packages via the official back-port into my Mint13 LTS build.
Unfortunately it still has the same m-p-i 16 package, so no further devices are supported.
I'm guessing Mint are taking their core build from the Ubuntu Precise repos rather than Quantel :-(
I've posted a note on their blog/forum, but I don't believe it's high on the agenda at the moment, which is a pity since all the hard work on m-p-i has been done already.
That is not to understate the huge, HUGE, amount of work the Mint team have done on their desktop this year to deliver a fantastic OS; it's just that the mobile device market is moving so much faster than the desktop development cycle, poor old Banshee is getting left behind.
Mark

On 23/11/12 19:31, David Nielsen wrote:

Tell Clem that Mint should setup a procedure to issue updates to m-p-i, libmtp and friends so media players can rely on having up to date portable device support to provide a better experience.

It would go a long way to making life easier for us and for users.

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On Friday den 23. November 2012 at 16.43, Mark Walton wrote:

David,

Many thanks for the quick reply.
"Less haste and more speed" is the moral for me here I think.
I should have provided a bit more detail;

I'm running Linux Mint 13 / Cinnamon 1.4 UP3 with Banshee 2.4.0. and media-player-info 16-1, which does not recognise the N9.

A note to Clem at Mint HQ perhaps?

Best regards
Mark


On 23/11/12 18:27, David Nielsen wrote:

a bit of research shows that the N9 is listed in the media-player-info database meaning it is an MSC device (an standard USB mass storage device).

If you have media-player-info release 17 or higher you should have support in all major media players including Banshee

see:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/media-player-info/commit/?id=64918228327945ed1f990baa695698a7545d790f

If you are on Ubuntu that means be default the current stable release Quantal and the development release Raring should just work. If your distribution does not have m-p-i release 17 available, please ask them to upgrade and issue updates for users. It is low risk and adds support for more hardware.

If you do have m-p-i 17 and it does not show up if you plug in the N9 after starting Banshee please file a bug with Banshee (see www.banshee.fm/file-bugs)

Kind regards,

David Nielsen

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On Friday den 23. November 2012 at 14.46, Mark Walton wrote:

I would love to see the Nokia N9 supported by Banshee.

Are there any thoughts or plans to include support for this successor to

the old N900 ?

Many thanks

Mark

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David,

Many thanks for the quick reply.
"Less haste and more speed" is the moral for me here I think.
I should have provided a bit more detail;
I'm running Linux Mint 13 / Cinnamon with Banshee 2.4.0., which does not recognise the N9.
Note to Clem perhaps.

Best regards
Mark

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