connecting to a toshiba gigabeat (mobile audio player)

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I have a Toshiba Gigabeat mobile audio player that is designed for Windows Mobile and i cannot find a programe that will connect to it under Ubuntu( on the screen of the Gigabeat it says im connected)

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said :
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I beleive Amarok may be able to

This page has more information, but it a bit confusing http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Device:MTP

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John Carew (john-carew1) said :
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Thanks Sidarth im close ,Amarok finds my player,I can see all the files and I can transfer them into a playlist on Amarok but I cannot transfer any music files to Gigabeat.

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John Carew (john-carew1) said :
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this is the message I get when I run mtp-detectjohn@john-laptop:~$ sudo mtp-detect
libmtp version: 0.2.1

Attempting to connect device(s)
Potential MTP Device with VendorID:0930 and ProductID:0010 responded to control message 2 with a response that was too short. Problems may arrise but continuing
usb_claim_interface(): Device or resource busy
LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to initialize device 1
LIBMTP PANIC: configure_usb_devices() error code: 7 on line 1806
Detect: There has been an error connecting.

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said :
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hmmm
well I came across this just now

http://linuxphile.org/node/42

I wish I could be of more help with this, I am not familiar with any of it.

Oh when it tells you to go to that other page to get libmtp, if you have are running the 32 bit version of ubuntu (intel processor) make sure to download the 3rd from bottom .deb file. Thats the lastest build for your archetecture. (If you are running the 64 bit version get the 4th from bottom).

.deb files are the linux equivalent to .exe files (in debian based distros anyway)

There is an email at the bottom of that page. If you run into trouble, you may want to email him.

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