Version: 2.4.1 (using KDE 4.6.4) OS: Linux First reported there: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364649 I have an IRiver LPlayer MP3-player. When I plug it in, it becomes a '/dev/sdc' device in my Linux system. Since it doesn't have an partition table (and all data is stored on /dev/sdc directly), it doesn't have an uuid. So UDisks (which is used by solid as a backend) doesn't know its uuid too, and so does solid. So amarok can't detect this device, and if it is run with --debug key it shows a string "...has empty uuid" and it won't detect player as an external collection. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a device without partitition table. 2. Plug it in. Actual Results: Amarok should detect it as an external media collection. Expected Results: Nothing happens. # LANG=C fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 3961 MB, 3961520128 bytes 122 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, total 7737344 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 ? 0 0 0 0 Empty # blkid /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: LABEL="LPLAYER" TYPE="vfat" QDBusViewer shows an empty uuid for org.freedesktop.UDisks /org/freedesktop/udisks/devices/sdc IdUuid property $ amarok --debug >output 2>&1 $ grep -A 2 -B 2 'empty uuid' output amarok: [MountPointManager] Factory can't handle device "/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc" amarok: BEGIN: virtual bool MassStorageDeviceHandlerFactory::canHandle(const Solid::Device&) const amarok: [MassStorageDeviceHandler] has empty uuid amarok: END__: virtual bool MassStorageDeviceHandlerFactory::canHandle(const Solid::Device&) const [Took: 0.004s] amarok: [MountPointManager] Factory can't handle device "/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc"
Not all media players are supported on Linux, sorry. In particular the LPlayer from iRiver doesn't support MTP mode. Please google for workarounds, we simply depend on the system to use a player.
Well, it does support MTP, but that's not the point (I saw such an option in player). The idea is that I'm using it as an ordinary USB Mass Storage Device (well, and device notifier applet in KDE detects it and suggests me mounting it), and as far as I know amarok supports such kind of devices. Moreover, I'm absolutely sure it worked some time ago (with some of previous Amarok 2.x versions, maybe 2.1.x or 2.2.x, I'm not sure about version number).
Reopening based on your comments, sorry for the noise.
I've just updated to Amarok 2.4.3 and this bug disappeared. I can see my MP3-player in amarok as an external collection again. Closing this bug then.