Re: [Banshee-List] Sony Walkman not recognized by Banshee

[Lorenzo Bettini <lorenzo bettini gmail com>]

Hi

I installed mtpfs, then, when Gnome detects it as USB, I unmount it,
then I manually mount the device as mtp

sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/bettini/MYWALKMAN
Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=054c and PID=05a6) is a Sony Walkman NWZ-E464.
   Found 1 device(s):
   Sony: Walkman NWZ-E464 (054c:05a6) @ bus 2, dev 4
Attempting to connect device
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB
interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
SONY NWZ device detected, assigning default bug flags
object 8 has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object 9 has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object a has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object b has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object c has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object d has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object e has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object f has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object 10 has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object 64 has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object 66 has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
object 13e2 has parent 0xffffffff (-1) continuing anyway
Listing File Information on Device with name: WALKMAN

running banshee from the command line does not even detect it...

On 01/20/2013 01:29 PM, IBBoard wrote:
> Most distros will also have an "mtp-tools" package our similar that
> contains an "mtp-detect" program that will check for any mtp devices on
> your usb ports and give you the details of what it found (including the
> file types it supports).
> 
> There are still occasions when banshee can't access the device because
> it is locked. Unfortunately, that is an unavoidable issue with odd
> protocols like this. If you run banshee from the command line then you
> should be able to see messages showing whether banshee tried to load the
> device but it was locked, whether it encountered an error, our whether
> it didn't even try to load it (because out was unrecognised).
> 
> On Jan 20, 2013 10:35 AM, "Lorenzo Bettini" <lorenzo bettini gmail com
> <mailto:lorenzo bettini gmail com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     I don't know whether it's my case, however playlists are not
>     supported... I think this device supports MTP (but how can I check
>     that?); I've also done what you suggested but if I unmount it from
>     Gnome, Banshee does not see the device at all...
> 
>     thanks in advance
>             Lorenzo
> 


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