Failure to open session on Sony Walkman NWZ-A828

[Craig Duncan]

After connecting my Sony Walkman NWZ-A828 and running mtp-detect, the following is output:

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Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.libmtp version: 1.1.5

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=054c and PID=035b) is a Sony Walkman NWZ-A826/NWZ-A828/NWZ-A829.
   Found 1 device(s):
   Sony: Walkman NWZ-A826/NWZ-A828/NWZ-A829 (054c:035b) @ bus 1, dev 10
Attempting to connect device(s)
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to read device information on device 10 on bus 1, trying to continueUnable to open raw device 0
OK.
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I am unable to use via nautilus, rhythmbox or banshee.

Is there a workaround to have the drive mount as mass storage? As it did in previous versions of Ubuntu?