Media Device Playlists

[Cody Christensen]

Ok I finally got time to add the backports ppa that contained 2.2.2 and give it 
a shot. Unfortunately it is not any better. It might actually be worse :( With 
2.2.2 the playlists don't show up at all on my player. With 2.2.0 when I would 
select save to media device my player would show "synching do not 
disconnect" for a brief second and the playlists would show up athough they 
wouldn't play. This time it does appear to copy anything nor do the playlists 
show up. 

There is also a strange bug which I haven't checked if it is reported yet but 
when I select Save to Media Device it will put a playlist named something 
like Fri Feb 5 10 20:23. but it will open one of the other playlists for 
editing. As if I had clicked on the playlist so that I could change the name.

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:36:41 am Bart Cerneels wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 06:14, Cody Christensen 
<codyregister at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > I Just tried to put some play lists on my mp3 player (Insignia Pilot) in
> > MTP mode. When I clicked on the save play list button and selected 
media
> > device it saved to the device, but the play list would not work. I then
> > connected the player in file and folder mode and opened the .pla file in
> > kate. All that I saw was a single character that was just a rectangle
> > (sorry I don't know the technical name for this character).
> >
> > Is there a known issue with media device play lists or is this an issue
> > resulting from something in my particular setup?
> >
> > I am running Kubuntu 9.10 Amarok 2.2.0 and KDE 4.3.2
> > Thanks
> >                                        --Cody
> 
> This could be a bug in MTP that has recently be solved.
> Upgrade to 2.2.2 [1] and report a bug at http://bugs.kde.org if it
> still exists in the new version.
> 
> What is a bit strange though is that you get an actual file on the
> device. The MTP implementation of amarok uses a libmtp-playlist, which
> is a logical construct representing a playlist, not an actual file. So
> this might actually be a libmtp bug or even worse: a buggy device.
> 
> Leinir: don't you have an Insignia Pilot? Can you test this?
> 
> [1] http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-2.2.2
>