Syncing media player with Amarok

[ocular_sinister]

I’m struggling to find a way to sync my media player (Sony W995 - it just appears as a disk when plugged in, so it should be OK I think). I can kind of get something working by adding the mount point as a ‘Local Music’ folder. The problem is, there doesn’t seem to be a way of ‘syncing’ to Local folders. Further more, my music collection is in FLAC format on my PC - but I need to transcode it to mp3 when syncing with my media player. Is this possible? I don’t expect to be syncing the other way at all.

Otherwise, I’m stuck with manually transcoding/copying files with Dolphin

Thanks for any help!

[psybernetik]

Bare with me, I don’t have my box with me at the moment…

@ocular_sinister

I’m struggling to find a way to sync my media player (Sony W995 - it just appears as a disk when plugged in, so it should be OK I think). I can kind of get something working by adding the mount point as a ‘Local Music’ folder.

Under the preferences section where you configure amarok there should be a section called “Media Players” where you can detect media players and/or configure how the detected media players should work. In your case, there’s a “dummy” media disk profile there. Select that and configure accordingly. You shouldn’t have to mount it. Per se, it should mount it automaticly using FUSE and popup looking similar to a thumbdrive.

@ocular_sinister

The problem is, there doesn’t seem to be a way of ‘syncing’ to Local folders. Further more, my music collection is in FLAC format on my PC - but I need to transcode it to mp3 when syncing with my media player. Is this possible? I don’t expect to be syncing the other way at all.

Otherwise, I’m stuck with manually transcoding/copying files with Dolphin

Do you want to convert all or just some? Do you want to keep it in FLAC?

Personally, until other DAPs start using OGG or FLAC I’m stuck MP3 as well. I adapt by converting them to high quality bitrate (320KBPS CBR) MP3s like so…

find ~/*mp3_library* -type f -iname "*.flac" -exec flac -d {} \;
find ~/mp3_library -type f -iname "*.wav" -exec lame --preset insane {} {}.mp3 \;

You can do this to clean up your library. Let me know if you don’t understand any of this BTW…

find ~/mp3_library -type f -iname "*.flac" -exec mv {} ~/archive_directory \;
find ~/mp3_library -type f -iname "*.wav" -exec rm -f {} \;
tar -zcvf music_archive.tar.gz ~/archive_directory

When you’re done with this you’ll have to go through with Amarok and input the tags. Unless you’re good at scripting; then there’s cli software to do the tags.

[knurpht]

@ocular_sinister

I’m struggling to find a way to sync my media player (Sony W995 - it just appears as a disk when plugged in, so it should be OK I think). I can kind of get something working by adding the mount point as a ‘Local Music’ folder. The problem is, there doesn’t seem to be a way of ‘syncing’ to Local folders. Further more, my music collection is in FLAC format on my PC - but I need to transcode it to mp3 when syncing with my media player. Is this possible? I don’t expect to be syncing the other way at all.

Otherwise, I’m stuck with manually transcoding/copying files with Dolphin

Thanks for any help!

It appears in Amarok as a Local device, right click it, pick Read Device and it will build a collection for you.

There’s loads of audio convertors, also batch- and folderwise. You can use k3B for it as well, it’s much more than just a burning program. I use it to convert my FLAC’s (about 14000) to mediaplayer directly.

[psybernetik]

If you know any gurus… Try and see if you can can get someone to script up an amarok script to only convert the files when it’s placed on a DAP. It’d be nice to have.