OBEX music-transfer script for sony-ericsson phones

[Colin Guthrie]

Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Bart Cerneels wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I noticed some Amarok users (and dev's) also have a music phone. I have
>>> a SonyEricsson that I've been using for listening to podcasts for more
>>> than a year now.
>>> Here is a Python script I use to transfer podcast episodes, downloaded
>>> using Amarok to my phone using the Objext Exchange protocol over USB.
>>> The script uses OpenOBEX, Obexftp and it's Python bindings.
>> I've done this far more simply in the past. Just browse to your phone in
>> Konq and and copy the URL (should be something like
>> obex://aa:bb:cc/path/to/Music) and use this as the "mount point" for a
>> Generic media device in amarok.
>>
>> There was a bug in the generic media device code that prevented this
>> working smoothly in the past but I remember working with a dev to try
>> and get this licked. I've not tried for a while so there may be bugs in
>> this method now... I remember trailing slashes caused issues in some
>> capacity....
> 
> You worked with me and last I heard from you it was working just fine, so if 
> there are (still) slashes issues you haven't reported them.  I'd use Amarok 
> 1.4.7 or current SVN if you're going to do this.

Yup I remember now :)

I'll be honest I've not tried it for a while as I've not been using my
phone to play tunes.... I'll have a wee play and make sure it all works
well :)

Cheers

Col