Problems with copying music to MSC microSD card on Sansa Fuze with Amarok 2.2

[Brian Morrison]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:56:02 +0200
Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:

> > Any thoughts on this from the developers? I can't imagine why Amarok is
> > creating literally hundreds of processes just to copy to a UMS device.
> 
> The explanation for this behaviour can be found in this mailing list
> thread, I think:
> 
> http://lists.kde.org/?t=124531188100002&r=1&w=2
> 

OK Mark, thanks for the pointer. I had a read, but it left me wondering
if they are actually fixing this or whether they've not yet worked out
how.

I have to say that this situation makes using my Sansa Fuze with Amarok
incredibly painful, and yesterday it managed to completely stuff up the
SD card in it to the extent that I had to reformat and reload all my
music. In all my years of using RH and Fedora I've *never* had a card
file system corrupted like this.

In the end it took well over 4 hours to copy about 9GB of music files,
and that was doing it in smaller pieces rather than all at once.

I really hope this situation improves.

BTW, would it be possible to get Amarok to automatically read the
player contents when connected and perhaps do this without blocking
the UI?

-- 

Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
                                                          Oscar Wilde