Media Device Playlists

[Bart Cerneels]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 04:32, Cody Christensen <codyregister at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
That does sound like a bug, please report it.


> 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
>>
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