rythembox tries to sync with the wrong folder when using a sony playstation portable

Thanks for your report, which version of Ubuntu are you running? Does it works fine if you sync it with a new user?

I'm having the same problem, there is no area in which to configure the folder it which it sends music to with rhythmbox.

ubuntu 7.10
rhythmbox 0.11.2

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Hi,
because this problem still exists in Hardy Heron, I've reopened this bug report. But I can't say many more about this problem, because I can't see the directory that rhythmbox is trying to use. I just know that the directory used by a PSP to play music is no longer /PSP/MUSIC. Now its only /MUSIC.

Ok, after a short time of trying I found the solution of this problem. First rhythmbox sets /MUSIC as the path to the music at a PSP. Second someone (also rhythmbox??) adds the entry from hal to this path (this entry is "PSP/MUSIC"). At the end rhythmbox tries to find the music at "MUSIC/PSP/MUSIC/" which is more than wrong. I just set the entry in hal ("/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktopusb-music-players.fdi") to "" and now it works fine.

could be also somewhat related to bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530658 ?

waiting for reporter feedback on upstream report.

the bug has been fixed upstream now

This update fixes the issue

 rhythmbox (0.11.6svn20090108-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low
 .
   * New svn update
   * debian/control.in:
     - updated gtk requirement
   * debian/patches/90_correct_cd_recording.patch,
     debian/patches/90_upstream_change_correct_cd_copy_naming.patch,
     debian/patches/91_upstream_fix_mtp_transfer.patch,
     debian/patches/92_upstream_change_correct_player_listing.patch,
     debian/patches/93_upstream_change_no_crossfading_locking.patch:
     - the changes are in the new version
   * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch:
     - new version update
   * debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch:
     - new version update

Same problem still existing with a SONY NWZ-E438F (portable MP3-video player). This is NOT a PSP.

Rhythmbox seeks songs and puts them in /PSP/MUSIC/, but it should be /MUSIC/

Rhythmbox 0.12.5
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
Linux 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:01:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux