OBEX music-transfer script for sony-ericsson phones

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 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.
>
> Just tested this again and it seems to work fine :)

Nice.

As a side note, you should be able to do the same connection in 2.0 by now, as 
long as the OBEX kioslave is there...