Can I fake Amarok into thinking my SD card is a "Media Device"?
Dave M G
martin at autotelic.com
Sun Oct 30 08:53:02 UTC 2005
buntu Users,
This may be more of an Amarok question than an Ubuntu question,
but it's to do with mount commands and devices, which I think might be
more OS related. In any case, I've also posted to the Amarok discussion
forum, but thought the gurus on this list might be more versed in the
relevant command line functions required.
In Amarok, I have the option of mounting a device to act as my
portable media player, and transfer songs to and from it from within the
Amarok interface.
I use my Palm Tungsten E as my MP3 player, and store my songs on
an SD card. Because transferring songs to the card via the Palm itself
is brutally slow, I have a seperate SD card reader that plugs into a USB
port.
When I plug a card into my USB card reader, it pops up on the
Desktop, and I can move files from it without any problem from within
Nautilus. So far so good.
However, it's a little awkward to have to move to and from the
Amarok interface to Nautilus in order to find songs among my
directories, while I'm listening to tracks to decide which ones I want
to have on my card. Far better to be able to drag and drop entirely
within Amarok.
When I select to configure my device within Amarok, it gives me
a little window with two fields. One is to input a "mount command", and
the other is to input an "unmount command". I assume this means to input
a mount command like I would at the command line interface.
And that brings me to my questions:
What would be the appropriate command to mount my SD card from
within Amarok?
And will attempting to mount it from within the application
conflict with the fact that it automounted from within the OS?
If so, can I get around this?
Many thanks for any advice.
--
Dave M G
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