Amarok with MTP support

RattyMan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 79

Does anyone know how I can enable Amarok with the MTP support so that I can use it with my Creative Vision M?? Even if it's to test / experiment with?
I know that the Amarok 1.4.2 supports them through the libmtp plugin (http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Device:MTP)
Also libmtp is now in portage (http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?libmtp-0.0.20)

But there is no mtp use flag and there is a note in the Amarok ebuild changlog that mtp support has been disabled!

Thanks

RattyMan

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:19 am Post subject:

Hi.

IIRC, flameeyes has requested help for testing this in the gentoo-dev ML.
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jdmulloy · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: Noticed this

I've been looking into mp3 players lately and I find that they only do "Plays for sure" I'm going to try this with the "--without-libmtp" removed.

# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/amarok/amarok-1.4.3-r1.ebuild,v 1.5 2006/10/14 22:07:52 josejx Exp $

LANGS="az bg br ca cs cy da de el en_GB es et fi fr ga gl he hi hu is it ja ka
km ko lt ms nb nl nn pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw sl sr sr@Latn sv ta tg th tr uk uz
zh_CN zh_TW"
LANGS_DOC="da de es et fr it nl pl pt pt_BR ru sv"

USE_KEG_PACKAGING=1

inherit kde eutils flag-o-matic

PKG_SUFFIX=""

MY_P="${P/_/-}"
S="${WORKDIR}/${P/_/-}"

DESCRIPTION="Advanced audio player based on KDE framework."
HOMEPAGE="http://amarok.kde.org/"

SRC_URI="mirror://kde/stable/amarok/${PV}/src/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="GPL-2"

SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ppc ppc64 sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
IUSE="aac kde mysql noamazon opengl postgres
xmms visualization ipod ifp real njb"
# kde: enables compilation of the konqueror sidebar plugin

DEPEND="kde? ( || ( kde-base/konqueror kde-base/kdebase ) )
>=media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2_pre20060328-r8
>=media-libs/taglib-1.4
mysql? ( >=dev-db/mysql-4.0.16 )
postgres? ( dev-db/postgresql )
opengl? ( virtual/opengl )
xmms? ( >=media-sound/xmms-1.2 )
visualization? ( media-libs/libsdl
=media-plugins/libvisual-plugins-0.4* )
ipod? ( =media-libs/libgpod-0.3* )
aac? ( media-libs/libmp4v2 )
ifp? ( media-libs/libifp )
real? ( media-video/realplayer )
njb? ( >=media-libs/libnjb-2.2.4 )"

RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
dev-lang/ruby"

DEPEND="${DEPEND}
>=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.9.0"

PATCHES="${FILESDIR}/${P}-playlist-encoding.patch"

need-kde 3.3

src_compile() {
append-flags -fno-inline

# Extra, unsupported engines are forcefully disabled.
local myconf="$(use_enable mysql) $(use_enable postgres postgresql)
$(use_with opengl) $(use_with xmms)
$(use_with visualization libvisual)
$(use_enable !noamazon amazon)
$(use_with ipod libgpod)
$(use_with aac mp4v2)
$(use_with ifp)
$(use_with real helix)
$(use_with njb libnjb)
--without-musicbrainz
--without-libmtp
--with-xine
--without-mas
--without-nmm"

kde_src_compile
}

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:12 am Post subject:

jdmulloy,

according to flameeyes, if you want to emerge amarok with mtp support, you need to first emerge libmtp and then emerge amarok with

yellowcord · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

Success! My Creative Vision:M was a fairly easy to set up initially (I had to give a device name with the Add Device button and then click the Autodetect Devices).

I can put my musics on the player just fine. I was using Gnomad2 (the latest on the web page not the ebuild) for transferring before and this has a much nicer interface. I like this a lot better. If theres a way to put videos on my player as well then I can retire gnomad entirely.

One issue I am having is that sometimes I can't move a song from my collection into the playlist. I can still transfer songs properly though. This isn't a big deal for me as I don't usually use Amarok for simple playing (I just put every song I have on shuffle and XMMS works fine for that). I also had Amarok warning that the Xine plugin reported that it couldn't play mp3's once when Amarok started up. Everything seems to be working fine right now. I look forward to improvements being put in, but so far this is GREAT!

jdmulloy · Last edited by jdmulloy on Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:34 am; edited 1 time in total

I don't have much of a music collection, my intension was to get a small one to play podcasts. I was trying to get one at circitcity but they all said plays for sure and I couldn't find out through google if they would work and CC told me that they didn't have linux compatible players. I may try to get one now seeing that it might be supported, probably a 512MB iriver T10 or T30. I have an hour commute into boston for college now so I burn podcasts to a CD-RW and listen to it in the car, works just fine. I don't have a device to test but MTP is listed in amarok's drop down list now with my modified e-build. Couldn't we add an mtp use flag and a check for libmtp to toggle that flag on and off.

yellowcord · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

I would think that a Sansa device might be better for you. I was looking at the Sansa e260 when I bought my Vision:M. From what I read, the Sansa devices look just like a normal USB harddrive. Copy what you want onto it like a regular file and go. You don't need any sort of helper software.

jdmulloy · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:37 am Post subject: OGG Support

bradbase1 · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 6

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bradbase1 · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 6

Growlizing · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 94

I am very sorry bradbase1, and sending apologies to the package maintainer also.
This is the result of a terrible misread (can't believe I've managed to read the versionnumbers wrongly so many times. I've read the newest version in portage as 0.0.23, instead of 0.2.3, which is quite a difference. Thanks for the great work. Was going to manually try the 0.2.3 version today and compile it against amarok, but seams like there is no need for that, thanks to the package maintainer. Also, the part about gentoo getting outdated was meant funny, as gentoo usually isn't outdated, and I found it kinda funny to find such a popular package unmaintained (which proved to be wrong due to a series of misreads).
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bradbase1 · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 6

Misreading is human. We've all done it (and posted on what we thought we saw).

I came down pretty heavy as well...

The fact is that this package was left unmaintained due to finger pointing without a follow up of "what can I do to help?". I too found it surprising. However, after reading about flameeyes I can understand why it was dropped. Anyway, it's maintained now and that's what matters.

Our exchange did energize me to steal some time to see if the(/my?) issue has been resolved. I'm pleased to say it has.

I now have Amarok 1.4.7 working with libmtp 0.2.1.

The secret seems to be a requirement for libusb 0.1.12 and some udev permission modifications. So after doing an emerge amarok with an mtp use flag, ensure you have libusb 0.1.12 and have proper usb permissions and "it just works"(TM).

From the Amarok website ( here ):