Last night the addition of MTP support to Banshee landed in CVS HEAD. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s true! The days of command line interfaces for your snazzy new Creative, iRiver, etc. player are nearly over. All you have to do is TRY IT! Just grab Banshee from CVS and run autogen.sh with the –enable-mtp flag. Oh and yes, be sure you’re running libgphoto2 from SVN trunk with the C# bindings installed. It’s that easy! I’ll be publishing more “how to get started” docs soon.
Yes, your Creative Zen Micro (or other supported MTP player), is ready for use.
Bug reports, feedback, suggestions, hate mail should be either filed on the GNOME Bugzilla under product Banshee, component MTP, or emailed to me.
Hey, so I am sort of a newbie at Ubuntu and Debian, but I have seen the light, and I don’t want to go back to the dark side of what is Windows XP. So could you please help guide me through how to do this? I went to the banshee project page and read on how to install banshee from CVS, and it still hasn’t worked for me to install it. I currently have banshee 0.10.10, and I have some of the later plugins installed (like the mini mode, internet radio, and music recommendations. But I don’t know how to be installing the MTP plugin for it.
Thanks for all the help you are attributing to the OpenSource cause!
Jonathan
Johnathan,
To compile the MTP DAP plugin with banshee cvs, when running autogen.sh, pass the flag –enable-mtp to it and it will enable the MTP driver.
I’ve moved the install guide to http://tricky.vanstaveren.us/Projects/Open_Source/Banshee/MTP
If you are having issues just getting Banshee CVS to install, please ask on irc.gnome.org/#banshee – someone (possibly me) can probably help you!