banshee doesn't recognize iPhone

The desktop team does not support Banshee, it's universe software.

whoops, wrong bug

Confirming this. Hopefully, Banshee will support this in the near future as it recently gained udev support.

On Thursday 19,August,2010 11:57 PM, Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi wrote:
> Confirming this. Hopefully, Banshee will support this in the near future
> as it recently gained udev support.

And with udev support, it has dropped podsleuth/ipod-sharp and uses gpod
instead, which supports iPhones.

  status fixcommitted

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 1.7.5-0ubuntu1

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banshee (1.7.5-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Chow Loong Jin ]
  * New upstream release
    + New Features:
      - GIO/udev-based hardware backend
      - Apple Devices backend with support for iPod/iOS devices (LP: #554141)
      - MPRIS v2 support (Ubuntu Sound Menu, etc)
      - Audiobooks and Miro Guide extensions enabled by default
    + Enhancements/API Additions:
      - Play menu item in track context menu
      - Amazon affiliate codes for all supported countries
      - "Amazon MP3s" Music smart playlist
      - Miro Guide teaser in Podcasts
      - Zoom support in Amazon MP3 Store and Miro Guide
      - Now Playing simplify mode that declutters the UI
      - Play Queue shuffle action
      - Podcast errors shown to user
      - Better MTP device detection
      - Default smart playlists hidden when empty, for new users
      - New and improved user documentation
    + Notable Bugs Fixed
      - bgo#626786: Prevent crash in search-for-artist when blank
      - bgo#628388: Fix overflow bug with MTP playlists
      - bgo#625683: Fixup checkboxes now clickable
      - bgo#626928: Fetch podcast artwork asap
      - bgo#626791: Catch crashes caused by missing extensions
      - bgo#528383: Re-enable writing video metadata to file
      - bgo#626803, LP: #617017: Fix Ogg rating parsing in non-English locales
  * debian/(control, rules):
    + Update configure flags:
      - --disable-hal
      - --disable-ipod
      - --enable-appledevice
      - --enable-gio
      - --enable-gio-hardware
    + Add new build depends:
      - libgudev1.0-cil-dev
      - libgkeyfile-cil-dev
      - libgio2.0-cil-dev
      - libgtk-sharp-beans2.0-cil-dev
      - libgpod-cil-dev
    + Update version of libmtp-dev build-dep to 0.3.0
    + Drop hal, podsleuth and ipod-sharp dependencies
  * debian/patches:
    + 0001-Don-t-copy-duplicate-libraries.patch: Don't copy duplicate
      libraries
    + 0002-Also-copy-gio-sharp-s-debugging-libraries-if-they-ar.patch:
      Copy debugging libraries if they exist

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * Upload to Ubuntu from Debian git, as the dependencies are not all
    ready in Debian.
  * [fe5e8fb] Refresh and update patches to apply cleanly
  * [a688fa9] Disable Boo support and remove build dependency
  * [df01b1e] Generate translation template and set gettext domain in
    the Ubuntu build
  * [9c3402b] Make sure mimeinfo.cache is removed
  * [d54fedc] Update changelog version for Ubuntu
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:05:45 +0100