iphone and amarok on F14

Roderick Johnstone rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk
Thu Dec 23 13:04:11 UTC 2010


On 23/12/10 12:59, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 03:23 PM, 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.
>>
>> After plugging in the iphone there is a pop-up that allows one to view
>> photos, but that is all.
>>
>> I'm wondering if I need to install libmtp-hal to make this work.
>
> Maybe.  My own ipod touch doesn't work either, and ltinkl and I on irc
> the other day determined that libmtp was to blame for not properly
> id'ing the device.  When/if I find the time, I was going to try working
> on that (perhaps over the holidays).

ok, great!
>
> to test, install libmtp-examples pkg, and run
> $ mtp-detect
>
> and post it's output (esp if it mentions that you have an unrecognized
> device).

Will do when I can. Unfortunately its not my iphone (belongs to one of 
my users) so may not be able to do this before the new year.

Possibly Patrick, who is in this thread, can do this in a more timely 
fashion???

Thanks

Roderick


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