Sansa Fuze not listed as supporting Vorbis and FLAC

[James Henstridge]

Binary package hint: hal-info

The 10-usb-music-players.fdi file does not list Fuze players as supporting Vorbis or FLAC audio. I recently bought such a player (what appears to be version 1 of the device) and its firmware supported these formats out of the box.

With the FDI files in intrepid, copying music with Rhythmbox entailed unnecessary and slow transcoding and resulted in all the music being listed as unknown artist and album (in fact they appeared to be untagged). After updating the FDI file, it just copies the music directly.

I filed an upstream bug with the updated FDI file:

    http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20616

This consolidates the entries for the Clip and Fuze devices and adds device IDs for Fuze v2 devices. There is a total of 8 device IDs because the players present different IDs depending on whether they are in MSC or MTP/Auto modes.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

Playing with the settings, the device can also report a product ID of 0x74c0 if I switch it from MSC mode to either MTP or "Auto Detect".

MTP access is enabled for both modes that present this product ID, and for "MTP" mode, mass storage class access is disabled entirely.

The list of supported media types should not depend on the product ID though.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

Created an attachment (id=23993)
0001-Merge-the-rules-for-SanDisk-Clip-Fuze-and-SanDisk.patch

Here is a patch that merges the rules for "Sansa Clip/Fuze" with "Sansa Clip Version II".

I checked and FLAC also plays on my version 1 Fuze, and the additional audio_folders are present too.

I don't think there is any easy way to detect if a particular device has an old firmware, and they are selling version 1 Fuzes with vorbis/flac capable firmware installed so it seems reasonable to list the extra formats.

I also took the liberty of adding the two USB IDs for the version 2 Fuze (snarfed from http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1041356.html).

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

Binary package hint: hal-info

The 10-usb-music-players.fdi file does not list Fuze players as supporting Vorbis or FLAC audio. I recently bought such a player (what appears to be version 1 of the device) and its firmware supported these formats out of the box.

With the FDI files in intrepid, copying music with Rhythmbox entailed unnecessary and slow transcoding and resulted in all the music being listed as unknown artist and album (in fact they appeared to be untagged). After updating the FDI file, it just copies the music directly.

I filed an upstream bug with the updated FDI file:

    http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20616

This consolidates the entries for the Clip and Fuze devices and adds device IDs for Fuze v2 devices. There is a total of 8 device IDs because the players present different IDs depending on whether they are in MSC or MTP/Auto modes.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Committed, thank you!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Committed upstream.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package hal-info - 20090324-0ubuntu1

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hal-info (20090324-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

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 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:54:08 +0100