Hi all,

Recently I picked up a Sony NW-Z618 mp3 Walkman player. As soon as I plugged it in a folder opened up my desktop and allowed me to drag music to it!!

However, when I open Amarok and add items to the player que the option to upload que is greyed out when I right-click on the tracks.

Using Amarok 1.4.7
Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop edition

Here are my steps to test:
1 - Launch Amrok
At this point when I click on the Devices section it says No Device Available

2 - Connect mp3 player
a - Sony turn on and changes display to Connecting, Connected Do Not Disconnect, and then back to Connecting
b - Folder pops up with folders/files displayed
c - Amarok Devices section changes to MTP Media Device at /dev/sda1 however, there are zero tracks in que displayed, even though there are a half dozen pre-loaded songs, along with one non-DRM'd song that I installed via drag & drop.

What's odd is that if I unmount the mp3 player it still displays as a connected device in Amarok. But, when I physically disconnect the USB cord after unmounting the Device section goes back to saying No Device Available.

Here are the results from the libMTP detect command:

robertjm@robertjm-desktop:~$ mtp-detect
libmtp version: 0.2.1

Attempting to connect device(s)
Detect: No Devices have been found
robertjm@robertjm-desktop:~$ sudo mtp-detect
[sudo] password for robertjm:
libmtp version: 0.2.1

Attempting to connect device(s)
Device 1 (VID=054c and PID=0327) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
usb_claim_interface(): Device or resource busy
LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to initialize device 1
LIBMTP PANIC: configure_usb_devices() error code: 7 on line 1806
Detect: There has been an error connecting. Exiting

Anyone have any ideas??

Robert

You should update libmtp to 0.2.4. This version can detect your player

Thanks for the suggestion. Doing so seems to be harder than expected.

I tried compiling the source, but it bombed out on me. Then I found a .deb pkg, however, it requires libc6 v2.71, or greater, which is above what Ubuntu 7.10 has in it.

So now I have to update the gcc somehow so I can upgrade the libMTP! Its all giving me a headache.

Robert