SAMSUNG YP-U3J QW/XET (VER 1.08 EU) and UDEV and Amarok

[Mag. Leonhard Landrock]

Hi Brenda!

My original post was sent to " 
libmtp-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net" too. There Linus Walleij (one of the 
libmtp developers) answered. At that time I had some more testing and replied 
to his post.

For whatever reason, the post is not in the libmtp archives so far. So I do 
here a full qouting of my response:

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Hi Linus!

Thank you for your response.

Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 00:19 schrieb Linus Walleij:
> 2007/12/22, Mag. Leonhard Landrock <1977-Hamlet at gmx.at>:

[...]

> > 6.) I tried to autiomatically find my Samsung Media Player with Amarok
> > 1.4.4 (KDE 3.5.5) but it does not work.
>
> Have you also recompiled Amarok? To use your new libmtp you have to.

No, I have not recompiled Amarok. But on another computer I have Debian 
testing running. NOTE: I have no speaker system there ( -> no sound).

At that computer is a more recent version of Amarok (version 1.4.7 if I 
remember well). That newer version has an entry for MTP devices (which Amarok 
version 1.4.4 does not have).

It still doesn't work as with an IPod but at least I can manually say Amarok 
that there is an MTP device and then it ssems that Amarok can use it. At 
least was able to copy the Amarok Welcome mp3 on my Samsung Media Player.

So I tried to get the same Debian package (from Debian testing) running on my 
Debian stable. But finally it turned out to be to much work.

Maybe I will switch this PC (= my home PC) to Debian Lenny (= Debian testing) 
within the near future. Then I can say more about this topic as I would have 
a newer version of Amarok. :-)

Of course I will report success here as soon as I have it. So far I do not 
have the success (probably because of the use of a to old version of Amarok).

BTW: Thanks for coding this libary.

> Linus

Leonhard.

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Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 00:28 schrieb Brenda J. Butler:
> Thanks to the original poster's list of stuff he did to try
> to get the Samsung YP-U3J working in a KDE system, and thanks
> to a Ubuntu Forums topic talking in detail about how to add a
> device manually, I was finally successful in getting podcasts
> onto my Samsung YP-U3J.  See
>     http://linuxbutler.ca/SamsungYPU3JQ_instructions.html
> for my howto.

Thanks for your howto.

[...]

> I'll be happy to put this in your wiki or email them to
> your list, if you think that would be a good idea.
> I can also update the instructions before doing so if you
> point out any omissions or errors or confusing bits.


There are two things to note:

1.) Changing "/etc/udev/rules.d/libmtp7.rules" is not necessary. In fact, if 
one changes the udev rule, he/she can only use one Samsung YP-U3J at once.

OK, in fact I do not know wether it would be possible to use more than one 
Samsung YP-U3J at once, but with the changed udev rule you can get only one 
device note created by udev.

2.) You should give the exact version of libmtp and amarok you have used. 
Because as I have noted, Amarok version 1.4.4 does not support MTP devices.


> Thanks to KDE and Amarok developers for a great program!

Seconded.

> bjb

Leonhard.