GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 578153
Sansa Fuze with additional MicroSD card incorrectly detected and displayed
Last modified: 2009-05-18 14:21:20 UTC
Please describe the problem: The Sansa Fuze has a slot to add an additional MicroSD, to test how this integrated with Banshee I bought one today. Occasionally the additional space is not detected at all, when it is, it is displayed as a second Sansa Fuze. Several possible ways to handle this occures, each with it's own downside. We could do a kind of LVM thing and handle this as one disk but then if the user unplugs it the on-device database not be what we display, however since it auto updates the database on changes we won't have missing entries. Also not very flexible, but for most users just having one card so maybe a nice gconf key to allow to bind them would be good. We could also attempt to detect it and display it as "Additional MicroSD storage in Sansa Fuze" instead of giving the impression there are two devices attached. This would also be a good way to let the user decide which music is essential and which can go on the replaceable MicroSD card. Finally since we know which songs and content is the users favor and most viewed we could do a sync profile that took the essential content and put it on the device, then filled up the MicroSD card with the desired content which didn't fit. This could be expanded to let Banshee keep track of numbered MicroSD cards or doing card libraries of podcasts, audiobooks and music on separate ones. This might make a cool plug-in but is to specialized unless other players have or are about to add similiar expansion capabilities. Steps to reproduce: 1. insert MicroSD card in Fuze 2. plug Fuze into laptop Actual results: If detected at all, it shows as two separete Fuzes Expected results: one of the above solutions. Does this happen every time? 100% Other information: x86_64, da_DK.UTF-8, Fedora 11, Mono 2.4 pre and SVN revision 5188 of Banshee.
Seems to be fixed in git, using the lvm type approach of treating the Fuze with MicroSD inserted as one volume