1st Test results iPod playlist saving Bug 223400

[kat amsterdam]

Hi Bart,

I only had an iPod touch 3g lying around the house. I'll test again with an
ancient iPod when I get my hands on one.

I spoke to my DJ friend and he explained how he used his music player.

He has a really really huge music collection 800,000 files so he puts the
player on his entire collection on random, and when he hears a number he
likes, he quickly runs over to the computer to copy that number to a
playlist.
When the playlist has been made up he transfers it to his iPod.
Then listens for a few days to the playlist on his iPod.
Then finds the tracks again on vinyl and performs a set.

He also has a Samsung Galaxy S (Android) so I'm trying to steer him towards
the Ubuntu One Music service so that the playlists can go directly to his
phone.

As for libgpod, it's quite strange as Banshee could transfer the tracks to
the iPod touch 3G (fresh out of the box and enabled with a Mac). I thought
Banshee used the same library?

I tried the drag and drop within Media Sources but didn't understand why the
numbers didn't get transfered to the device. I'll try to get my hands on the
same model iPod that my DJ friend has, to test with.

Thank you again for this effort and for the good programming.

*Damiön la Bagh
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2011/7/18 Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org>

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 01:30, kat amsterdam <kat.amsterdam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Goodday Developers,
> > So I finally got the GIT version to build on my Samsung N120 with Ubuntu
> > 11.04 Natty
> > First of all my compliments the GIT version looks great. The new subtile
> > images look really nice.
> > Also the Music Brainz seems to work a lot better than it used to.
> Althought
> > it still misses the ability to add only certain bits of data instead of
> > replacing the entire tag.
> > Anywayz. I've been testing with an iPod 8GB Model A1288
> > I've attached two screenshots of what happens.
> > It seems to recognize that the iPod is connected.
> > I am able to synchronize tracks with Banshee, so I know the Linux-iPod
> > connection is working
> > In Amarok though, it shows 0 tracks even though there are clearly tracks
> on
> > the iPod (see screenshot)
> > Also when I try to copy a saved playlist to the iPod, it's not clear how
> to
> > do this.
> > When I try to save the current playlist to the iPod it comes up in the
> Media
> > Devices playlist but says, error copying tracks, tracks already exist,
> even
> > when they don't exist on the iPod.
> >
> >  This rig is set up just for Amarok iPod testing.  Let me know what extra
> > information you need.
> > (My appologies if the screenshots are not rotated, when I opened them in
> EOG
> > they show upright, but when I inserted them they showed rotated)
> >
> > --
>
> Hey Damiön
>
> You say you are testing with a regular iPod (classic, HD model I
> assume) but the pictures show either an iPod touch or iPhone which
> would only work when jailbroken. This is a libgpod issue. I've tried
> with an ancient regular iPod and it works perfectly, but for testing
> all device types we rely on users like you.
>
> Just to be clear. It's not possible to transfer a saved playlist
> directly yet, nor transfer the tracks it using the "save to" button.
> But you can drag and drop track from The Playlist to the iPod in Media
> Sources ("Lokale Muziek" in the Dutch translation, which I never use
> ;)). You can also drag and drop within Media Sources with the same
> effect.
>
> Bart
>



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Met vriendelijke groet,
Damiön la Bagh
Amsterdam, Nederland
==
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