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When drag&dropping tracks from Rhythmbox to my SansaClip+ Rhythmbox auto-converts those tracks to MP3, even so they already are MP3s. It doesn't do that with all tracks, just some, and it seems rather random which one it converts and which it doesn't. It didn't do that prior to Ubuntu 11.10.

As far as I can tell the player and it's supported formats are properly detected:

model: Sansa_Clip+_4GB
vendor: SanDisk
filesystem uuid: 0123-4567
drive type: (none)
requires eject: true
access protocols:
    storage
output formats:
    audio/mpeg
    audio/x-ms-wma
    audio/audible
    application/ogg
    audio/ogg
    audio/flac
    audio/x-wav
    audio/x-pn-audibleaudio
input formats:
    audio/x-wav
playlist formats:
    audio/x-mpegurl
playlist path: 
audio folders:
    MUSIC/
    PODCAST/
    PODCASTS/
    RECORD/FM/
    RECORD/VOICE/
    AUDIBLE/
    AUDIOBOOKS/
folder depth: -1

Edit: I am starting to think that this might be a database issue, as I only have the problem when bulk copying old podcasts over to the player, so far I don't think I have had the problem with podcasts downloaded with the latest version of Rhythmbox. However just a hunch for now, I might be wrong.

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There is probably a maximum sample rate setting, it is down-sampling tracks before converting them.

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