I have a portable audio player that has limited set of audio decoders. It's a Sandisk Sansa View with 32 Gb of internal and 32 Gb of external capacity. The version of my Amarok is versie 2.8.0. I am using Amarok because Rhythmbox doesn't detect the player in MSC mode.
Only when I connect the player in MSC mode, a .is_audio_player file is made. I suppose this is done by Amarok after accepting the device as audio container. I edited according to the website of Almost a Technocrat using the listed MIME-types. The contents of the edited file are below
ascii_only=true
audio_folder[$e]=./MUSIC
collection_name=Sansa View
ignore_the=false
music_filenamescheme=%artist%/%album%/%track% %title%
output_formats=audio/mpeg,audio/x-ms-wma,audio/wav,audio/aac,audio/x-aac
playlist_formats=audio/m3u
playlist_path=./PLAYLISTS
regex_text=
replace_spaces=false
replace_text=
use_automatically=true
vfat_safe=true
[transcoding]
Encoder=INVALID
TrackSelection=0
Problems:
- When dragging FLAC files no dialog appears, asking for re-encoding.
- In the end the files are just stored as FLAC which is an unreadable format to the device as mentioned in the above configuration file.
The first thing I would do is experiment with the [transcoding] section as documented in KDE API, but it should work out of the box if I remember well. I did find other values for Encoder=INVALID in the documentation and set it to Encoder=MP3. Unfortunately, the same problem appears.
I am thinking the INVALID was put their to express a lack of encoding functionality. Could it be?
