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Banshee does not find Creative Zen V Plus

Bug #117281 reported by Ben Schwartz
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Bug Description

Banshee does not see my Creative Zen V Plus, an MTP device supported by libgphoto2-2.3.0.
When I start it in a terminal with banshee --debug, I see the lines

Debug: [5/28/2007 1:37:01 AM] (Testing device for DAP support) - /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_41e_4152_CA0D4D160002FA9D_if0
Debug: [5/28/2007 1:37:01 AM] (DAP has not been added) - /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_41e_4152_CA0D4D160002FA9D_if0

The device is seen correctly by gphoto2 -L, and appears correctly in the Gnome device manager. From the Banshee MTP FAQ, http://www.banshee-project.org/Guide/DAPs/MTP/FAQ

"It is likely that your HAL FDI entries are out of date or nonexistent." "If you are using a packaged copy of libgphoto2, complain to your package maintainer as they aren't doing things properly."

I am running the latest standard Feisty packages, including libgphoto2-2.3.0-0ubuntu4.

I have tried adding all the various HAL FDI and udev files as produced by /usr/lib/libgphoto2/print-camera-list, including the modifications required by bug #91250, with exactly zero effect on the behavior.

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TerryG (tgalati4) wrote :

Try the following:

Create a file called: .is_audio_player

>nano .is_audo_player

Add the following lines (modified for your situation):
#Cheesy audio player recognition script
audio_folders=MUSIC/,Podcasts/
folder_depth=2
output_formats=audio/mpeg

Copy to the root directory of your player.

cp .is_audio_player /media/mycreativeplayerthatisgivingmefits

Connect and see what banshee says.

>bansee --debug

It works for me using gutsy, banshee 0.13.1 and an old sandisk 1 GB mp3 player.

Only the folders referenced in your .is_audio_player file will get indexed in banshee, then you can play them from the player or drag them into your library, or create playlists, whatever.

Marking incomplete pending these tests.

Changed in libgphoto2:
status: New → Incomplete
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TerryG (tgalati4) wrote :

Changed package to banshee since libgphoto2 seems to work correctly.

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Ben Schwartz (bmschwar) wrote :

This does not solve the problem, unfortunately, because the Creative Zen V Plus does not register as a mass storage device, and so is not mounted at all. Actually, one can optionally designate a portion of the memory (e.g. 512 MB) as mass storage, but the device will not play any audio files stored in this area.

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Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".

If you can confirm that bug bug has been resolved in Intrepid, please let us know if we can set the status to "Fix Released"

Thanks again!

Changed in banshee:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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