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Banshee media player/Nokia X6 sync problem.

Asked by Paul Townshend on 2011-07-13

I have managed to get Banshee to recognise my Nokia X6 by adding .is_audio_player to the root directory in its mass memory enabling me to view the music files on the phone but when I try to sync OR delete music files, after going through the motions & looking like it's doing said tasks, I get error messages basically telling me that it thinks my phone's mass memory is a read only file which clearly it isn't because I have no problem dragging & dropping files into my phone from my Home/Music folder. Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

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2011-07-16
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2011-07-17
Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : #1

Hi,

As Banshee is the player I use, which has great DAP support, I wanted it to see my phone as a DAP (well it should, it’s a music phone). There were two ways:

    Teach HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) that the phone is a DAP; very hard — humans are smarter: so is Banshee
    Create a .is_audio_player file inside the root directory of the Mass Storage Device — my phone.

Then you need to add a few lines into the file:

    audio_folders=My Music/
    folder_depth=2
    output_formats=audio/mpeg,audio/mp3,audio/x-aac

Now you can start Banshee and sync up the phone. Great!

Paul Townshend (paul-townshend) said : #2

Sorry to have to say this made it worse. What I already had in the .is_audio_player file was this...

audio_folders=Music
output_formats=audio/mpeg,audio/aac,audio/x-ms-wma

which gave me the level of function I referred to in my original question, adding the 'folder_depth=2' line stopped Banshee even giving me the option to delete music from the phone & would not accept any music I dragged to the phone, at least before, as I mentioned, it went through the motions of adding or deleting music files before giving me the error message. Also, after adding the 'folder depth=2' line, the phone's mass memory locked into read only mode & I had to disconnect the phone & delete the .is audio player file via my phone's touch screen. Thanx for trying!

Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : #3

Hello, I have not forgotten, just that the instructions I gave you worked many times. I'm looking for. While could you tell me what version of Banshee are you using? thanks

Paul Townshend (paul-townshend) said : #4

Hello! Many thanks for your help Massimo. My version of Banshee is 2.0.1 which I think is the latest version bundled with Ubuntu 11.04.

Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : #5

Hi, the latest version is the 2.1.0. You can update you versione with this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/banshee-unstable.

Here instruction how to add ppa: https://launchpad.net/+help/soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html.

Than you can update and retray with your device. let me know. Thanks.

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