iphone and amarok on F14

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 21:23 +0000, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is amarok expected to see music on an iphone 3GS plugged into an F14 
> system, because it didnt for me? I plugged in the iphone then started 
> amarok.

I think it is supposed to, and no, it doesn't work for me either.

> After plugging in the iphone there is a pop-up that allows one to view 
> photos, but that is all.

Ditto.

> I'm wondering if I need to install libmtp-hal to make this work. If so, 
> I'm assuming I still have to fix the bug listed here: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642487

Don't bother. As the reporter of that bug (in F13), I can tell you that
nothing has changed and it still exists in F14. However I suspect Apple
devices don't even use MTP at all so it's probably not relevant, just
very annoying when you see the pop-up.

> Am I right in thinking kde apps(like amarok)  still use hal for hardware 
> discovery while gtk apps no longer do?

KDE apps are supposed to use Phonon, but that's about as much as I know
about it.

BTW the 3GS sort of works using the Gnome tools. At least you can sync
it using gtkpod, as long as you have the libmobiledevice package
installed. This provides a shim to allow you to "mount" iPhones, and is
necessary because unlike iPods, they don't behave as removable storage.

So maybe what's required is for Amarok to use libmobiledevice when
trying to access iPhones.

The lack of user-accessible documentation on all this is spectacular.

poc