As an aside, "Various Artists" now work properly in current GIT tree.
See commit: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=amarok.git&a=commit&h=1dfaa704ec7cad2f3a521d67fab36e7c7bc205bd Unfortunately, I can't deal with your other issues as I don't have an ipod. P. "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" -- Robert Frost On 24 March 2011 20:30, Thad Humphries <thad.humphr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have managed to build and install Amarok 2.4.0.90 on openSuSE 11.4. Aside > from the change in PluginManager.cpp of s_pluginFrameworkVersion from 60 to > 61, my only change to the source was to apply Daniel Faust's patch for > various artists as the bug keeps me from using my iPod with Amarok ( > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2011-February/032586.html). > > Initially I had some problems getting my iPod (an iPod Classic 6th Gen > 80GB) to connect and mount properly to /media/IPOD. That's now working: I > plug it in, the device notifier sees it, I click mount, and it appears at > /media/IPOD. I can see and write to it with gPodder 2.13. Both Amarok > 2.4.0.90 and Clementine 0.6 see it (though I haven't yet tried writing to it > with either). > > I'm having two problems with Amarok 2.4.0.90, one major, the other minor: > > MAJOR: Even with the patch mentioned above, Various Artists still are not > shown grouped in the iPod. Various Artists are grouped properly on my hard > disk, and (when I disconnect the iPod) I see them grouped. They properly > group in Clementine and in an old copy of Amarok 1.4 I have on an old Linux > box. > > MINOR: When I click the disconnect device button in Amarok, the mount point > /media/IPOD disappears as expected. However the iPod remains in the device > notifier (albeit disconnect). Nor does the iPod show the disconnecting > notice--it still appears connected though it is not. Unplugging the iPod > starts the disconnecting notice and it functions fine afterward. > Disconnecting with Clementine and Amarok 1.4 show trigger the disconnecting > notice and (with Clementine) the iPod disappears from the device notifier. > > -- > "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we > are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher > Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v, 121-24) > > _______________________________________________ > Amarok mailing list > Amarok@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok > >
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