Re: gvfs-gphoto breaks support for mtp music players

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:26 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Alan <alan mcgovern gmail com> wrote:
> > Is there any way to resolve this so that banshee is able to safely
> > unmount the device so it can access it itself?
> 
> Sorry, but the only real fix is to make Banshee use GIO (and thereby
> GVfs and libgphoto2) for accessing the files on the device - having
> multiple user space apps trying to access the same hardware directly
> is just, as you have experienced, a recipe for disaster.

We already had this discussion, and GIO just cannot support those
players. A lot of them require the metadata before the data, so you
can't use a file-based access to add them.

You never replied to that mail discussion we were having with Linus
Wallej, in November 2008.