Amarok 2.1 and my SanDisk e200 mp3 player

[Snowhog]

Yeah!! I finally figured out how to get Amarok 2.1 to see and play from my SanDisk e200 mp3 player.

I Googled on: howto play music from you mp3 player in amarok and found this: MTP based devices

Creative Zen Portable Media Center, Creative Zen MicroPhoto and other MTP devices use a 2.x MTP/PlaysForSure firmware, which is not supported by libnjb, but is supported by libmtp. Beginning with Amarok 1.4.2, these devices are now supported.

Opened a console and typed:

sudo apt-get install --simulate libmtp

and got:

E: Couldn't find package libmtp

Opened Synaptic and searched on mtp and noticed the following apps:
mtpfs mtp-tools
mtpfs

Description: FUSE filesystem for Media Transfer Protocol devices
MTPfs is a FUSE filesystem that supports reading and writing from MTP (Media
Transfer Protocol) devices, such as MP3 players, video players or digital
cameras.
.
In addition to revealing media files on the connected device, MTPfs exposes a
virtual directory called "/Playlists" which contains the device's playlists as
m3u files.

mtp-tools

Description: Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library tools
A library for communicating with MTP aware devices. MTP (Media
Transfer Protocol) is necessary to communicate with some USB portable
devices like mp3 players, video players or digital camera.
.
While some portable device will use USB mass storage protocol or PTP
(picture transfer protocol), some device can only communicate through
MTP [ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol ]
.
This package contains tools for communicating with MTP devices.

Installed both. Launched Amarok. Plugged in my SanDisk e200 and under Collections my SanDisk was there, listing all 469 tracks. Selected an album and right-clicked > Append to Playlist and there they were, on the Playlist side ready to play - playing it now!

So cool. 8) Still have to get the Album art issue figured out, but that's a small thing.

I now have everything working on my laptop. How cool is that? 8)

[lmilano]

Re: Amarok 2.1 and my SanDisk e200 mp3 player

Excellent. I also have an mtp device (creative Zen), but I didn't really need to install any mtp related package. What wasn't obvious to me was to look in the Collections for the device (it used to be in a different place in Amarok). Anyway, another happy camper heree

[claydoh]

Re: Amarok 2.1 and my SanDisk e200 mp3 player

now if only podcast support to media devices comes back........ :/

btw rockbox is now quite usable, tho not considered stable, on e200 v2 sansas. So now
I don't have to convert those ogg-only podcasts before transfer now

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok 2.1 and my SanDisk e200 mp3 player

now if only podcast support to media devices comes back........ :/

What do you mean, exactly?

[claydoh]

Re: Amarok 2.1 and my SanDisk e200 mp3 player

I can't sync podcast downloads to my sansa, no matter if I use mtp or usb mode. I believe it is in the works, though

[lmilano]

Re: Amarok 2.1 and my SanDisk e200 mp3 player

Same here. I have never been able to do anything useful with podcast in Amarok (maybe it's me though, I just tried at different time to no avail, maybe I should look for a how to or something, which is something I almost never need to do with Amarok, because it is very intuitive to use).