GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 625054
Rhythmbox transfers music to my generic MP3 player without file extensions
Last modified: 2010-11-09 18:01:41 UTC
Well, the summary basically says it all: Whenever I transfer a title to my MP3 player from within the program, it gets copied without its file extension (e.g. *.mp3), so my MP3 player cannot recognize it. I'm not quite shure if this error lies within Rhythmbox or if it is somehow related to the new libdmapsharing dependency.
I can't reproduce this. What type of MP3 player are you using?
Well, basically its not a MP3 player but a MP3 capable Handy (Nokia 6220 Classic). My system (Ubuntu 10.04) does recognize it (its Mini SD Card, respectively) as a generic removable media device - and so does Rhythmbox. I will try the same transfer using a 'real' generic MP3 player as soon as I come home. Then we will see if the problem reproduces itself.
Awright, I was able to reproduce exactly the same bug with two other generic MP3 players. Odd thing is: Sometimes Rhythmbox transfers a MP3 file with an dot at the end. But mostly it is only the title of the MP3 without any sign of an extension. Maybe this has something to do with libmapdsharing?
There is absolutely no possibility that this has anything to do with libdmapsharing.
I've got the same behavior with my Motorola Milestone (aka European Motorola Droid): Chose a playlist to sync, the tracks get copied without extension, doesn't matter they are .mp3 or .ogg, the extention including the dot are removed. Also, on a sidenote, the playlist gets copied on the root of the sdcard, even the media player info for motorola droid doesn't list the playlist feature, see attachment motorola-droid.mpi
Created attachment 169694 [details] Motorola Droid Media Player Information
FYI: I've upgraded my system to Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (and therefore to Rhythmbox 0.13.1 as well) recently. The bug still remains.
After some more tests, it seems only the mp3s get copied without the extension. I've created .is_audio_player with the content : audio_folders=Music output_formats=application/ogg,audio/mpeg
This probably means you don't have an audio encoding profile for mp3. If you open the encoding profile list (edit->preferences->music->'edit...'), what profiles show up there?
You're right! I was missing an audio encoding profile for mp3, because the gstreamer lame plugin was not installed (I'm running Debian Sid). So after installing the package from debian-multimedia, the mp3 profile shows up and the mp3s get copied WITH the extension. Thanks a lot :-)
OK, thanks for testing that. You shouldn't need to install an mp3 encoder just to copy mp3 files around, though.
Yeah, that did the trick! Thank you so much! :) And I agree, you shouldn't. Or at least there should be a clear hint that you have to, since it is everything but convenient, that you need an ("ugly") encoder package to transfer mp3 (on source device) to mp3 (on target device). Nevertheless, thanks for helping out. Now Rhythmbox again is 100% the music player of my choice! :)
fixed in commit 65f1adb
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