Re: [Banshee-List] Configure MTP sync root and card

[IBBoard <ibboard gmail com>]

I've just checked the source and confirmed my suspicions.

Banshee creates an "MtpDevice" from a handle, which is just a low-level 
pointer to memory [1]. It then prepares some stuff, including default 
folders [2]. It identifies those folders based on the defaults supplied 
by the device [3].

If the device doesn't have a "default_music_folder" specified then 
you'll get the behaviour you're seeing. That means that either a) libmtp 
is doing something odd and not recognising values (which is outside of 
Banshee's control) or b) the device isn't reporting things properly 
(which is outside of both Banshee and libmtp's control).

Hopefully someone knows a bit more about how libmtp works, rather than 
just how Banshee uses it, and can give more detail on the rest of it!



[1] 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/src/Libraries/Mtp/Mtp/MtpDevice.cs#n135
[2] 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/src/Libraries/Mtp/Mtp/MtpDevice.cs#n126
[3] 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/src/Libraries/Mtp/Mtp/MtpDevice.cs#n141


On 24/05/13 20:48, IBBoard wrote:
> Based on my experience with looking at the MTP code then it should
> auto-detect or be told what the "Music", "Video" and other key folders
> are (I never looked at quite how it did it, I just saw that there are
> fields that hold those values). If it is just dropping them all in the
> root then it sounds like those values aren't being picked up.
>
> There is a vaguely related bug [1] (about putting files in artist/album
> folders) and I've submitted a patch that appears to do that properly,
> but it hasn't been included yet. It wouldn't completely solve the
> problem, but at least you'd get a mass of artist folders instead of an
> even bigger mass of ungrouped files!
>
> Regards,
>
> IBBoard
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539804
>
>
>
> On 24/05/13 13:17, flocki wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > I have tried using the .is_audio_player file, however it does not work
> > - for
> > me - with MTP.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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