Wanted: Portable Media Devices
(I'm proxy-posting this for my SoC student, who already posted it on the Amarok blog, so that it gets wider distribution on Planet KDE. Apologies to anyone seeing this twice.)
So iPod support should be pretty well set by this next weekend, and the next thing on my list is support for MTP devices.
But I'm at an impasse, since I don't actually have any of these devices. The lack of devices is actually a pretty common issue for the Amarok project, which is where we come to you =). If you have access to a media device which you can donate for development, please let the Amarok team know at: amarok-device-donation@emailgoeshere.com. A list of devices that the project is looking for is available here. This will ensure that the people with these devices are happy people when Amarok 2 rolls around. Of particular urgency to the 2.0 release is the need for an MTP device (see list of MTP devices: here) Any of those devices will be a great help.
And, once I have one of those devices in hand and support starts rolling out, I ask anyone who has an MTP device to check out a copy of Amarok 2 from your friendly neighborhood svn server to help me test things out and make support be good (see: here)
Lastly, thanks in advance to all of you!
July 9th, 2008 - 00:39
I *believe* any Symbian S60 mobile can function as an MTP device – simply connect via USB and select “Media Player” as connection mode.
July 9th, 2008 - 06:02
I wish I had one to donate. But I can borrow one from my girlfriend, and help with the testing…
July 9th, 2008 - 06:51
That’s a big help too, though you’ll have to wait until I get a device first… heh.
July 9th, 2008 - 07:30
Is this the right email address? “emailgoeshere.com” or is this just an email dummy? It kinda seems like a dummy…
July 9th, 2008 - 07:35
I have a Sandisk Sansa e280 that I can probably donate. It only puts out one channel of audio (thus it’s broken for real life use) but that shouldn’t matter for mtp testing. I’ll email you guys more info when I get home today.
July 9th, 2008 - 07:38
Haha, that’s what I first thought too. It is quite real however, feel free to e-mail.
July 9th, 2008 - 07:40
Awesome! Yes you’re right, that’s pretty much what’s needed for development.
July 9th, 2008 - 13:28
I own a Sansa e280R. It dual-boots OF and RockBox, but that shouldn’t cause problems.
July 15th, 2008 - 19:35
Cool. Maybe with the devices you can solve bugs like this:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165037
I don’t know if this problem persists in amarok 2. Is there a way to test it without removing the stable version?
My device is not in the supported list from the libmtp site but this is the only thing which doesn’t work well.
Thanks!