Cowon S9 doesn't show up in Rhythmbox and Banshee Media Players

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I am new to Opensuse (I am running Opensuse 11.3 Gnome), I started out in Ubuntu and still run it, but I wanted to diversify my Linux experience. I use Rhythmbox with Ubuntu10.04 and plug my Cowon S9 in and play media off of it through Rhythmbox. However when i plug the S9 into Opensuse 11.3, it mounts and i can browse the media, but it doesn’t show up in Rhythmbox or Banshee. I started up Rhythmbox under Ubuntu and looked at what plug-ins were installed, and then I started Rhythmbox under Opensuse and looked at the plug-ins installed under it; the plug-ins installed were the same on both distros. Does anybody have any suggestions? I tried doing a search for this on the internet and the only fix that was remotely related to my situation was to install an MTP plug-in in Rhythmbox, which was already installed under both distros, maybe i didn’t enter the right key words into the Google. I haven’t tried shutting down the firewall yet, but since the S9 mounts in nautilus i didn’t think the firewall was interfering. I greatly appreciate any help, ideas, or suggestions that anybody would be willing to share. Thanks.

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Does anybody have any ideas or is this the wrong area to post this?

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First of all: a warm welcome here. You should have had one in November :slight_smile:

Area is OK, it might be no one knows. Until now I did not now what a Cowon was :slight_smile:

I’d compare the output of ‘dmesg | tail’ from both OSes, immediately after pluging in the device

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Thank you for your reply, i do have to apologize though as i was not specific enough. my mp3 player is recognized by OpenSuse, it mounts and i can drag and drop mp3s to it. I can go into the file menu of Rhythmbox, and go to “open location” and i can browse to my Cowon and play individual mp3s. However, under Ubuntu the mp3 player shows up in the side bar of Rhythmbox, i click it, and it shows me all of the mp3s i have on it. I can create playlists, and everything right from Rhythmbox. That is the true problem i am having under OpenSuse. Hopefully that is the missing link of information and now the flood gates of suggestions will now pour in.

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Keeping your sense of humour is a virtue :slight_smile:

Mmm, installed Rhythmbox, plugged in the wife’s Creative Zen Mosaic, it appears, shows files (even some FLACs it does not play), like you describe it should. Can’t realy help you here, except to help you hoping.

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yep, i have many mp3 players laying about my apartment, why i didnt try plugging in one of those is beyond me. i plugged in my Creative Zen, it shows up, and i can browse through the files on it. This got me thinking and i changed my Cowon to MTP mode rather than MSC (another big DUUHHHH on my part). this change now crashes Rhythmbox and Banshee, so my problem does not appear to be with OpenSuse or Rhythm box but with Cowon. I will now start bugging them. thank you for your help and enlightenment.

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Hi,
If you want to stay in MSC mode you can try to put an .is_audio_player at the root of your S9 file system as explained on this Rhythmbox FAQ page. Banshee recognize this code too. That way you basically declare to your Linux PC that your device is a DAP.
Here is the syntax example on this web page:

audio_folders=MUSIC/,RECORDINGS/
folder_depth=2
output_formats=application/ogg,audio/x-ms-wma,audio/mpeg

  1. You define where to put media file. You can add the Video folder too, and the sub-folder depth supported (2 here).

audio_folders=MUSIC/,RECORDINGS/
folder_depth=2

  1. You declare the file formats (as mime types) Rhythmbox or Banshee can copy to your device without transcoding:

output_formats=application/ogg,audio/x-ms-wma,audio/mpeg

Obviously you will have to find the corresponding mime types for flac here. :slight_smile:

By the way MTP support was very buggy but is becoming more stable with every month now.