Getting the Samsung YP-P2 working with Ubuntu Gutsy
I have no idea what happened yesterday when I charged it, it charged for only a few minutes then the led turned to green (meaning it's finished) yet there was virtually no charge on the battery indicator.
I charged it last night and it's now at full charge, so I'm happy at the moment.
Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) provides the right packages to get MTP devices working, just not the right versions for the P2. To get it working somebody has put up a repository of packages with the right versions up, install these as per the instructions. These packages also add the /etc/udev/rules.d/libmtp7.rules file which has the correct line for the P2.
To mount the player in Gutsy, do the following:
- Install mtpfs (as in the above link).
- Uncomment the user_allow_other line in the /etc/fuse.conf so that any user can mount the player.
Bash code
$ mkdir ~/YP-P2
$ mtpfs -o allow_other ~/YP-P2/
To unmount the player type:
Bash code
$ fusermount -u ~/YP-P2
I've noticed that if RhythmBox has been started you can't use mtpfs at the same time.
Upgrading the firmware
Samsung have made this is a complete doddle to do, mount the P2, and copy over the 2 firmware files to the root of the device, unmount, remove the USB cable (I don't know if this is really necessary) and then reboot. On the first boot, it'll upgrade one of the files and shut down. Power it back up and it'll upgrade the next one and shut down again. Power on for the third time and all should be upgrded to the new firmware. Mine is now running the new Bluewave 2 firmware. Or you can see screenshots of the upgrade.
Getting the cover art to work
This took me about 2 hours to work out during which I tried all sorts of packages. Easytag doesn't work, it embeds it, but the P2 cannot read it. I couldn't work out Amarok, so that was out. Finally, I tried kid3 and it worked first time! Basically, you select all the files that you want to have the same image, add a new tag (APIC), set the encoding (UTF8), the mimetype (image/jpeg), picture type (front cover) and description (the filename in this case) and import the file into kid3. Select OK and then save all the files to disk. Easy as that!
Playlists
My success with these has been patchy really, most of the time I copy a playlist (in m3u format) to the P2 (using mtpfs, as this is supposed to convert to the native playlist format when the file is copied), I can't unmount the player (it says the device is busy). Killing mtpfs works, I can then unmount, but the playlist isn't copied across, the P2 states that it is empty. I've managed to copy a playlist over twice so far, but patchy it is.
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Reply #1 on : Sat April 18, 2009, 14:44:02