amarok + Sansa e280 + playlists = no joy

[Yan Seiner]

Beso wrote:
> 2008/5/17 Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com <mailto:yan at seiner.com>>:
>
>     First of all, let me say that I've been using amarok for a while
>     now and
>     it fulfills my needs beautifully.
>
>     I'm just now coming out of the stone age, though, and trying to get an
>     mp3 player working.  i bought a SanDisk Sansa e280, and I'd like
>     to get
>     amarok to transfer music and playlists to it.
>
>     Amarok sees the device.  I have r/w perms on it.  I cancopy music
>     to it
>     and it plays.  I can build playlists on the device.
>
>     Within Amarok, I can build a playlist, but when I right click on a
>     playlist and select 'transfer files to media device' nothing happens.
>     Nothing - no error, no transfer, no popup, nothing.
>
>     Is there anything I can do to diagnose this?
>
>     amarok 1.4.9.1 <http://1.4.9.1> / kde 3.5.9, debian lenny
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     --Yan
>
>
> you have to effectively transfer the files to the device. when you 
> say: add files to the device you just put them in the queue  to be 
> transferred. after you've finished you look in the device applet and 
> you'll find the files you wanted to transfer.
Where do I find the device applet?  I don't see anything that would be 
considered a device applet.

> if you're ok with them click on  the start transferring button on see 
> them moving from the queue and appearing in the upper of the device 
> applet section. when finished you won't see the queue anymore.
Ok, but I can't find the applet.

:-(

--Yan


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