Banshee not detecting Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip using MTP

[John Uren]

Banshee does not detect my Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip MP3 Player using the MTP protocol on Ubuntu 11.10.

I am using v2.2.1 of Banshee.

As with Mass Storage mode, I would expect the device to appear in Banshee left-hand pane, but it doesn't.

mtp-detect does detect the MP3 player so the MP3 player works.

gMTP can detect and browse the device, as can Amarok.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: banshee 2.2.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 6 21:29:33 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/banshee/Banshee.exe
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/mono
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rada (ldrada)]

I think this is because libmtp9 that's available to us on Ubuntu 11.10 is an old version. I've found this forum post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=881293 which indicates that upgrading libmtp to a newer version fixes the problem. I haven't been able to found upgraded packages for libmtp3 nor have I been able to build my own package from source. 'apt-get build-dep libmtp' does apparently not satisfy all build-dependencies for the package. configure does not detect anything wrong. Build just fails with

../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `get_usb_device_timeout'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `LIBMTP_Detect_Raw_Devices'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `get_playlist_extension'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `ptp_usb_event_wait'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `set_usb_device_timeout'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `guess_usb_speed'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `configure_usb_device'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `dump_usbinfo'
../src/.libs/libmtp.so: undefined reference to `close_device'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I guess we'll just have to upgrade to 12.04 when it is released. Nothing else to do, really.