amarok doesn't see all the audio files on my Sansa E260 (includes a patch)

[Aran Cox]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> Aran Cox wrote:
>> It did help.  I thought that it was still missing my m4a (audio/mp4)
>> files but I was mistaken.  Actually what is happening is that some of
>> my files are showing up with a mime-type of application/octet-stream.
>> These files include every flac I've attempted to copy to the device
>> and a couple of random mp3 files.  Amarok and my Rockbox'ed Sansa E260
>> can play these files, but the UmsHandler won't scan them because they
>> don't look like audio files.  I don't usually copy flac's to my Sansa
>> of course but the Sansa will play them.
>
> application/octet-stream is a default mime type for when it can't be
> determined. This could signal a problem with the flac files...not sure.
> It would be good if there was a way to check a file against the
> shared-mime-info directory directly -- I don't know if there is, but if
> you can find one, see what is returned. Also compare that to the output
> of "file" run on those files. It could be a bug in the s-m-i database.

There is a gst-typefind program that will print mime types.  It thinks
my mp3 files are application/x-id3 and my flac files are audio/x-flac!