How to add amarok2 media device applet?

beerbellyswan

Hi all - i've been using amarok2 for several weeks now, and still have still have not been able to figure out how add the media device applet! i've seen several people on the message boards with the same problem, but no clear resolution. One person found a green star on the bottom left hand pane that did this, but i dont have that star. does anyhow know how to do this?

thanks!

cctsurf · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 123

Amarok2 handles media devices different than Amarok(1), at least thats what I've heard, I started with Amarok2. I find that it just adds the device as a collection on the collection tree. The device must be set up to correctly communicate with the computer and then amarok2 must be recompiled for it to communicate with the device (this is important, I was working with a mtp device and it took me a lot of frusteration to get it to communicate with amarok). Then it's just plug and play. I found this webpage that tells what needs to be done for most devices: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Devices
Hope that helps

beerbellyswan · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject:

Hi cctsurf -

cctsurf · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 123

It's been a while, but I've used an ipod (actually an iphone) with amarok, did you enable the ipod use flag? and recompile amarok? I was extremely frustrated getting my mtd device working, and then once I rebuilt amarok, having the right use flag (I'm sorry I forgot about the use flag), then it just showed up as a music library in amarok.

beerbellyswan · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject:

yeah - ipod is fully compiled correctly. i can actually play the content of my ipod from the "play media" drop down box. but the media device applet is nowhere to be found.