Hi,
I am trying to get amarok to work with my Rockbox enabled Sansa player.

So after mounting the player as usb mass storage, it appears in the collection view.
Now I configure the device by enabling the 'Use automatically when connected' switch and setting Music + Podcast folder.
After that the collection view of the device is showing the number of found songs.

Now I switch to the Podcast view. Unforunately I don't see the device there. Only the local podcasts.
However, the device is shown and enabled under 'visible sources'.
'merged view' is disabled.

KDE version is 4.6.3 (Fedora 14).
Amarok version is 2.4.1.

Any hints, how I can manage the podcasts like the song collection?

Thanks, Gunter

Unbelivable!

I was fighting with this for some hours.

Now I played again with the options (merge view, add folders, visible source) and suddenly it appeard.
May be some issue if there is no downloaded podcast in the local collection.

Sorry - seems to be solved now

Ok, I can now see the player in the podcast view. And I see the podcast that I have copied with dophin to it.
But unfortunately there seems no option to send or sync podcasts from the local podcasts to the device....

Is there anything I have not seen?

Thanks, Gunter

bachel wrote:Ok, I can now see the player in the podcast view. And I see the podcast that I have copied with dophin to it.
But unfortunately there seems no option to send or sync podcasts from the local podcasts to the device....

Is there anything I have not seen?

You should be able to drag and drop downloaded episodes from local to the device.

If that doesn't work anymore it's a bug. Please file a bug report or let me know here. There is still time to fix it before we release 2.4.2.

I am trying to get this kind of functionality with amarok 2.5 and an Android phone.

Unfortunately there is no "Now I configure the device by enabling the 'Use automatically when connected' switch and setting Music + Podcast folder."

And I cannot "drag and drop downloaded episodes from local to the device." because if I show podcasts then the local colletion (and thus the player) is hidden.

I'm completely puzzled. What is the intended workflow?
Here: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Device:VFAT/iRiver_X20 I found the following:

Configure Device
* Choose the Configure Device icon

But my Amarok does not have a "Configure Device Icon"

Any help appreciated

Well, the link you found is for Amarok 1.x, not for Amarok 2 which has a different workflow.
To copy the podcast episodes you need to have them stored in your collection.

I tried to copy the podcast to the collection. But how to do that best?

I have the following situation:

On right-click I don't get any option to move to collection, and drag/drop won't be possible because the collection is hidden.
Do I have to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V? (not successful on a first try)

You can only copy podcasts that are part of the collection.

How do you make a podcast part of the collection?

By changing the default location the podcasts are written to to a collection folder.

I feel I'm almost there, but two more issues (see step 7 and 11)

But please let me explain in detail the process I did.

1. This is how Amarok looks like for a newly created KDE user



2. Next I check the location of the collection (Settings -> Configure Amarok). The location is ~/Music .



3. I add a Podcast feed (Big green plus). Here I add http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws/



4. I configure the podcast. (right click => Configure)



5. This is the configuration window. I changed the location for the podcast to be below ~/Music



6. Episode download. Right click an episode and choose Download Episode. A progress bar will appear at the bottom and a small blue arrow pointing downwards will appear next to the episode title once the download is finished.





7. Mount USB player. Connect and choose "Open with File Manager". Question 1: Is there a way to mount the player from within Amarok? Ejecting is possible in Amarok.



8. Configure USB Player (wrench symbol). Also the downloaded episode is visible in the collection.



9. Activate the Podcast folder (bottom) and specify a folder to save podcasts to.



10. Copy episode from local collection to USB player



11. Result as seen in dolphin. Qeustion 2: The podcast was copied into the root directory of the USB player. Directory specified in step 9 is ignored.




How can I fix issue 2, and is there anything else I do more complicated than necessary? Do I follow the intended usability?

Hm, the "copy to root folder" is something we have seen with several devices in the past. It is not specific to podcasts but also happens to other tracks. I just checked the open bug reports and can't find any of those, though. Could you eventually test Amarok 2.6 beta1? There has been a lot of work put into the Media Devices stack, in particular the iPod/iPhone and the UMS (USB) devices.

Built v2.5.95 from git. when trying to start I got this error
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=115&t=95110

It seems I would have to build KDElibs as well? See this comment https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24908#comment79428

Considering that I can copy podcasts to my phone now I might wait until 4.9 gets pushed to kubuntu and come back to this thread.

Which Kubuntu version do you use? it should build fine with both 11.10 and 12.04

Also, how did you build from git? That error only occurs if you do not set then environment variables correctly, please see also http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2009/09/co ... l-summary/

No luck.

I'm on Kubuntu 12.04. Compiled in a newly created user accoun in case something got misconfigured in my main account. Still same error. I followed the instructions line for line.