By: MentalNotes
14 Mar 2008 11:52am GMT Big Dan: The problem is with Flash. It's annoying on Windows too. I've got friends who run XP and Vista who have to restart their browsers if they want to watch YouTube videos every time they want to listen to them through their stereo (USB connection). Meneer R: Thank you! Very handy bit of info that. Where did you get it from? *runs away to see what else Rhythmbox/HAL can do that I didn't know of...
By: DrDabbles
13 Mar 2008 8:51pm GMT This is the reason for wanting standards. No matter who published it, if there were a standard for music storage on portable devices, phones, iPods, etc. could all be developed to make use of it. Sadly, companies patent standards...so you can only use an iPod with iTunes, and things of that nature. Instead, we use libraries like MTP to sit between myriad devices and our front-end applications, so developers don't have to keep reverse engineering different players. This standardizes access from...
By: troll
13 Mar 2008 5:15pm GMT That one requires root and far more knowledge (what is the .fdi format like)
By: Onkar
13 Mar 2008 4:16am GMT A better way to do what Meneer suggested is to edit file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi, add entry for your phone/player, restart hal, (re)connect the phone/player, make sure rhythmbox recognizes it and then submit a patch so others also benefit.
By: troll
12 Mar 2008 10:07pm GMT Big Dan, the newest versions of most of the districutions use Pulseaudio, which will intercept attempts to use alsa as well, and provide the capability that many applications can output audio simultaneously. That problem is gone on other distributions already and the next release of Ubuntu will fix it for Ubunteros. Meneer R, that is pretty awesome trick! It's a shame it is not easy for Average Joes (no gui, and they don't get any clues that such solution exists in the first place). Some Gnome...