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October 28, 2007
Linux+MTP: Missed it By That Much
After all the mucking with tags I've done, I figured it was time to re-sync my jukebox (a 40GB Zen Touch). I read that Amarok had improved MTP support of late, so I gave it a whirl.
Aside from being incredibly slow (part of that problem is that the linux mtp library is slow, and part of the problem is that MTP is just a broken protocol), it fails to sync files with UTF-8 characters in them over MTP. I'm not the first to notice it, but it doesn't seem to have a solution.
So a hundred-odd files (I'm surprised it's that few) from my collection failed to sync - unfortunately that includes entire artists like, say, Tiësto, and albums like Dire Straits - Communiqué. Suckage.
Guess I"ll continue syncing via Winamp on my work machine.
UPDATE: seems the bug has been fixed in the development versions of Amarok. So I pulled down the source RPMs from Fedora, installed the development dependencies (a yum one liner), tweaked the spec to include the patch, and rebuilt with the fix. Open-source is good.
Posted by dberger at October 28, 2007 9:18 PM