media player (Nokia N900) not detected

[Daniel Gnoutcheff]

To reproduce:
- Launch Rhythmbox
- Plug in a Nokia N900 and select mass storage mode.

Expected:
- Rhythmbox detects the N900 as a media player (USB mass storage), lists it under "Devices", and allows the user to manage the music on it.

Actual:
- Rhythmbox does not respond at all to the presense of the N900.

This bug is a regression: it used to work in previous Ubuntu versions, and it also works in the rhythmbox shipped in Debian 7 (wheezy).

Some interesting-looking output from 'rhythmbox --debug':
> device /dev/sdb has no ID_MEDIA_PLAYER tag in udev
> /media/gnoutchd/Nokia N900 is already a mount point
> override file /media/gnoutchd/Nokia N900/.is_audio_player not found on mount /media/gnoutchd/Nokia N900

The attached 'n900-udev.txt' contains an extract of the output of 'udevadm info --export-db'. Note that ID_MEDIA_PLAYER is set on '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3', but it is not set on the entry that corresponds to the actual /dev/sdb device ('/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdb'). This is a change from Debian wheezy, where ID_MEDIA_PLAYER is set on both.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: rhythmbox 2.99.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-17.31-generic 3.11.10.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 9 16:07:26 2014
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (141 days ago)

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop ISO of the development release - Trusty Tahr. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Daniel Gnoutcheff (gnoutchd)]

I've just upgraded to trusty, and I still can reproduce this bug.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Created attachment 97805
udev.txt

apt-cache policy media-player-info
media-player-info:
  Installed: 21-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 21-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 21-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/distribucions/ubuntu/archive/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This was noticed using Rhythmbox.

The attached 'n900-udev.txt' contains an extract of the output of 'udevadm info --export-db'. Note that ID_MEDIA_PLAYER is set on '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3', but it is not set on the entry that corresponds to the actual /dev/sdb device ('/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdb'). This is a change from Debian wheezy, where ID_MEDIA_PLAYER is set on both.

ID_MEDIA_PLAYER isn't on the right device, rhythmbox can't see it. Probably needs to be fixed in media-player-info.

See also:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728744
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1290113

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Changing the package to media-player-info, according to the upstream response: "If ID_MEDIA_PLAYER isn't on the right device, rhythmbox can't see it. Probably needs to be fixed in media-player-info."

[Gitlab-migration (gitlab-migration)]

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