Cannot drag songs directly from library to iPhone playlist

[Tristan Schmelcher]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

When syncing an iPhone in rhythmbox, it is not possible to drag a song (i.e., copy) directly from the computer's music library to a playlist on the iPhone. Instead the user must first drag the song to the "root" of the iPhone device itself and then drag it from the "root" of the iPhone to the playlist. Attempting to drag directly from the computer to the playlist does nothing. This is very counter-intuitive. Rhythmbox should support dragging directly to a playlist.

Using Rhythmbox in 10.04 amd64 and an iPhone 3G.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 20 23:34:01 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)]

I can add that I have this bug as well on the most updated version of ubuntu.

Another problem, related to this one, is that you cannot copy playlists from Rhythmbox onto your ipod.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Danny Worms (dannyworms13)]

same problem here. Would love to be able to copy over playlists directly onto iphone like in 11.04 (you edit iphone's properties in rhythmbox and you can choose which playlists you would like to sync)
running a jailbroken iPhone 3G 3.1.3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]