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Bug 600752 - Rhythmbox does not warn if /apps/rhythmbox/plugins/ipod/active is zero
Rhythmbox does not warn if /apps/rhythmbox/plugins/ipod/active is zero
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
0.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-04 23:08 UTC by rockorequin
Modified: 2018-05-24 14:50 UTC
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Description rockorequin 2009-11-04 23:08:16 UTC
If you set /apps/rhythmbox/plugins/ipod/active to zero (no, I didn't do this deliberately - something did it for me without asking!), Rhythmbox appears to see attached ipods (it shows them and lists the music files on them) but doesn't let you do anything with them.

On closer inspection (if you click the down arrow over the text IPOD), it says there were import errors, and if you click on the import errors, it shows you a bunch of mime and gstreamer errors (see attached screenshot).

This is quite confusing, and how to fix it is absolutely non-intuitive - I didn't even know there was a setting for the plugin and found it by accident almost a week later.

So it seems that Rhythmbox is clever enough to recognise it's an ipod, but not clever enough to realise that a required plugin is disabled.

I think that in this case Rhythmbox should not show the ipod at all, but instead display a warning that the ipod plugin is disabled and the user cannot use it, along with some information on how to fix it (or perhaps even a means of re-enabling it).

Version: rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu5 on Ubuntu 9.10
Comment 1 rockorequin 2009-11-04 23:12:29 UTC
This is related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554708 (although not quite the same bug).
Comment 2 Christophe Fergeau 2009-11-04 23:17:45 UTC
I think both bugs are the same, the ipod is seen as a mass storage device when the plugin is disabled, so as any other mass storage device, it's shown in the source list and rhythmbox recursively goes through the ipod directory tree to try to find music files. I'm not sure why you get import errors in the process though.
Comment 3 rockorequin 2009-11-05 15:11:49 UTC
I think the nuance here is that the other bug is asking that Rhythmbox *not* automatically import files from mass storage devices, whereas in this bug I would like Rhythmbox to make it obvious to me that my ipod is being treated as a mass storage device and not as an ipod (it looks like Rhythmbox thinks it is an ipod, but doesn't work as such).
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 14:50:28 UTC
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