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Bug 631810 - Fallback for media-player detection
Fallback for media-player detection
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-10 10:22 UTC by Jonathan Ernst
Modified: 2010-12-18 17:59 UTC
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Description Jonathan Ernst 2010-10-10 10:22:20 UTC 
I am currently contributing tens of mpi definitions in the media-device-info freedesktop project ; however this will always be a moving target and GNOME should have a way to detect a mass storage media-player device when no corresponding udev rule and mpi file exists.

We are already doing this for "Photo devices" by detecting the presence of a "dcim" folder.

For music player we could detect the presence of the following directories (this list has been compiled from the most used directories defined in media-device-info mpi files) :

music/
Music/
MUSIC/
MP3/

The necessary environment should also be set in this case so that media players can actually see the mass storage device.
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-12-18 17:59:17 UTC 
This is mostly NOTGNOME, as this kind of MIME sniffing is done according to the shared-mime-info, which tracks its bugs at http://bugs.freedesktop.org

Once proper content type sniffing is done for the device, autorun will work pretty much out of the box.