Problems with copying music to MSC microSD card on Sansa Fuze with Amarok 2.2

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:22:49 +0100
> Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:11:56 +0100
>> Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm still having some serious problems with copying music to my Fuze.
>> >
>> > A lot of albums will not copy, the message I get is that the track is
>> > already on the device but a check using either command line or file
>> > manager shows that there are no tracks named that way on there. I do
>> > note that when the copy does work the system load jumps to between 25
>> > and 35, although the desktop is not sluggish when this happens.
>> >
>> > It isn't clear what is happening with this, but I can only say that in
>> > Amarok 1.4 it just worked.
>> >
>> > If anyone has any comments about the reliability of the new MSC code in
>> > Amarok 2.2 I'd be interested to know what you think.
>> >
>>
>> I'm not trying to get multiple tracks to copy, it seems to be
>> proceeding, but the system load average is now over 140! All the
>> processes seem to be of this type:
>>
>> kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-bdmowHRBc/klauncherMT3184.slave-socket local:/tmp/ksocket-bdmowHRBc/amarokPW3
>>
>> so clearly Amarok is causing them. 140 processes seems excessive just
>> to copy some files from one disk to another.
>>
>
> Any thoughts on this from the developers? I can't imagine why Amarok is
> creating literally hundreds of processes just to copy to a UMS device.

The explanation for this behaviour can be found in this mailing list
thread, I think:

http://lists.kde.org/?t=124531188100002&r=1&w=2

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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