GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 616552
Error 'No space left on device' while moving songs to MP3 player in Rhythmbox
Last modified: 2010-04-22 23:46:25 UTC
Steps to reproduce the bug here: - Plugged in my 1 Gb MP3 player - Started Rhythmbox - Dragged some songs from the library to the MP3 player - Some of them were in OGG format and were automatically converted. Good! :) - An error occurred when 81 songs were copied: "No space left on device" Browsing the MP3 player via Nautilus, it was detected that only 474 Mb was in use. All the music files were in the root directory with the format "band - album - song.mp3". I tried to create a new directory and I got the same error message "No space left on device". The problem is that most MP3 players' file systems are vfat and can't have so many lengthy entries in one directory. The solution is to organize the songs in directories by bands and albums the same way it happens in the library. I was using Ubuntu 9.10. This bug was first reported in Ubuntu's launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/565432
That's already how it works. If your device has a folder depth limit, which it appears to, then there's nothing we can do.
What is folder depth limit? How can I find it for my device? Note that I fixed the problem reorganizing the files in sub directories. I using Rhythmbox 0.12.5. If its already fixed what is the release number?
In 0.12.5, that information came from HAL or from a .is_audio_player file on the device. There was a bug at some point that interpreted the lack of a folder depth value as meaning 0 rather than unlimited, so you may be experiencing that.