Amarok 2.4.0.90, Clementine 0.6, Various Artists, and iPod

[Peter C. Ndikuwera]

As an aside, "Various Artists" now work properly in current GIT tree.

See commit:

http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=amarok.git&a=commit&h=1dfaa704ec7cad2f3a521d67fab36e7c7bc205bd

Unfortunately, I can't deal with your other issues as I don't have an ipod.

P.

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On 24 March 2011 20:30, Thad Humphries <thad.humphries at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have managed to build and install Amarok 2.4.0.90 on openSuSE 11.4. Aside
> from the change in PluginManager.cpp of s_pluginFrameworkVersion from 60 to
> 61, my only change to the source was to apply Daniel Faust's patch for
> various artists as the bug keeps me from using my iPod with Amarok (
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2011-February/032586.html).
>
> Initially I had some problems getting my iPod (an iPod Classic 6th Gen
> 80GB) to connect and mount properly to /media/IPOD. That's now working: I
> plug it in, the device notifier sees it, I click mount, and it appears at
> /media/IPOD. I can see and write to it with gPodder 2.13. Both Amarok
> 2.4.0.90 and Clementine 0.6 see it (though I haven't yet tried writing to it
> with either).
>
> I'm having two problems with Amarok 2.4.0.90, one major, the other minor:
>
> MAJOR: Even with the patch mentioned above, Various Artists still are not
> shown grouped in the iPod. Various Artists are grouped properly on my hard
> disk, and (when I disconnect the iPod) I see them grouped. They properly
> group in Clementine and in an old copy of Amarok 1.4 I have on an old Linux
> box.
>
> MINOR: When I click the disconnect device button in Amarok, the mount point
> /media/IPOD disappears as expected. However the iPod remains in the device
> notifier (albeit disconnect). Nor does the iPod show the disconnecting
> notice--it still appears connected though it is not. Unplugging the iPod
> starts the disconnecting notice and it functions fine afterward.
> Disconnecting with Clementine and Amarok 1.4 show trigger the disconnecting
> notice and (with Clementine) the iPod disappears from the device notifier.
>
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