The following was written using and works on:
- Fedora Core 10
- Banshee 1.4.2
- Generic USB thumb drives.
I use Banshee as my music manager on my desktop. Banshee is the best manager/player I have found yet for my Fedora/Gnome Linux install and so far I have found no reason to look for anything else.
One quirk I have been bothered by is transferring data to devices plugged in as mass storage. Banshee doesn't seem to pick them up to display in it's interface to allow easy copying of media.
A few minutes on the Linux forums and it seems that adding a file named ".is_audio_player" to the root of the device causes Banshee to recognise it as an audio device.
Being Linux, this setup is of course configurable. In that file (.is_audio_player) it seems there are a few options that can be set to cause things to behave as you want them to.
So, in an effort to get Banshee to recognise my USB thumbdrives, I added a simple .is_audio_player file to the root dir of those drives.
Content of the .is_audio_player file on my USB drives:
folder_depth=0
output_formats=audio/mp3,audio/wav,audio/wma
That tells Banshee the device can use mp3s and to write to the device in that format.
Refs:
- http://www.nabble.com/Documentation-for-.is_audio_file-td22235886.html
- http://old.nabble.com/Documentation-for-.is_audio_file-td22235886.html
- http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/wiki/index.php/.is_audio_player_file_format
- http://wiki.banshee-project.org/
- http://banshee-project.org/support/guide/
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/2007-January/msg00002.html
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