Rhythmbox bugfix update?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:48 AM, A. Walton <awalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:14 AM, A. Walton <awalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <
> macoafi at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > LP Bug:
> > https://bugs.edge.launchp.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/202405
> > > >
> > > > > GNOME Bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505340
> > > > >
> > > > > Rhythmbox tries to load songs before finding out what directories
> to
> > load
> > > > > from, and it can cause it to crash.  It also produces a *lot* of
> > import
> > > > > errors, which new users are sure to find off-putting.  Since
> there's a
> > patch
> > > > > attached to the GNOME bug which has been accepted by the GNOME
> devs,
> > could
> > > > > this patch be backported to Hardy's Rhythmbox to fix it before
> > release?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Said patch is already in Hardy (Rhythmbox 0.11.4.90; the patch was
> > > > committed to trunk in December and Hardy's pull is from Feb 27).
> > > > Perhaps you're running into a different bug?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Oh.  Hmm maybe HAL's misreporting which directories on the iAudio are
> > audio directories?  Is there a way I can check that?
> > >
> >
> > By the way, GNOME devs marked my iAudio bug as a dup of that one, which
> is
> > why I reported it like that in Launchpad.  I just posted to my original
> bug
> > there ( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522543 ) what you just
> > said.
> >
>
> You can try to see if the device info is correct using
> hal-device-manager, but I'm not exactly sure of what key to look for
> (other than just looking around and hoping something stands out as
> being wrong). This should probably have a high Google-factor with your
> specific iAudio model and HAL, (the key's probably somewhere in the
> portable_audio_player namespace, but that's about as much as I can
> say, I'm not really that familiar with HAL). Hope that helps.
>
> -A. Walton
>

portable_audio_player.audio_folders = { 'MUSIC/', 'VOICE/', 'RECORD/' }
(string list)

That looks correct, but Rhythmbox is pulling from SYSTEM/ and podcastready/
(which is not where the audio files go...it's got apps in there) and MOVIE/
and PICTURE/

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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