Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Adding support for new device (Sony W810i )

[Paul van Tilburg <paul luon net>]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:36:13PM +0300, Emilian Bold wrote:
> I have a Sony Ericsson W810i mobile which has some mp3 player functionality.

I have an HAL FDI file which is useful. I have the SE W800i myself, so
probably you need to add an entry with a different product id.
It's available on: http://paul.luon.net/tmp/sony-ericsson-w800i.fdi
I want to sent this to the HAL list for inclusion, but it might be more
useful when the K700i and W810i have been added. :)

> I've read in some previous emails that I have to find out some FDI
> using the hal device manager. Anything else ?

Well concerning accessing and playing from the phone, the FDI is all you
need.

> I'm not sure about the player lists but all I have to do so far is
> copy the mp3 files in a MP3/ folder on the Phone Card. List generation
> will also be nice although I might need a plugin for that.

No, they seem not the be stored on the MemoryStick, unfortunately.

Btw, when I connect my phone to my computer over USB and I use some
"heavy traffic" (like thumbnailing the photos dir) my kernel dies.  Also
RB sometimes triggers this by inspecting the MP3 files when I connect
this or it gets I/O errors on some of the mp3s...  not sure how to solve
this yet, probably have to report it somewhere.

Paul

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