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| c.h. (wryfi) wrote Re: Amarok 2 lost support for iPhone-like devices - Choice between 2 and 1.4? | #8 |
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I mostly use arch these days, but I've learned a little about this problem recently, and thought I'd share (since the kde guys were kind of rude about it in their upstream bug tracker).
The recent commit to amarok should allow it to properly detect iphones/touches -- *if* the device is recognized by solid, which means it must also be recognized by hal. sshfs mounts don't show up in hal because no hardware is actually involved, and hal is for managing hardware. So, something in amarok or solid, or (less likely) hal needs to change for sshfs to become viable in amarok2.
An option which may be viable, which I'm experimenting with, is iFuse[1]. iFuse attempts to communicate with iphones/touches via native Apple protocols over USB. Since the connection is via USB, the device is recognized by hal and solid, at least in theory.
For me, on arch, theory breaks down rather quickly. The hal portion of iFuse is dependent on an fdi file included with iFuse, which doesn't exactly work (at least not on arch). I've been hacking on it, but I'm not quite there yet.
There is a deb package for debian experimental that might be a good place for ubuntu users to start. It might even work out of the box for you.