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i just discovered that when Amarok's playing my PC won't recognise my USB MP3 player. It has to be manually mounted via a 'mount -t vfat...' command but if i ...
  1. 11-24-2005 #1
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    USB vs. Amarok

    i just discovered that when Amarok's playing my PC won't recognise my USB MP3 player. It has to be manually mounted via a 'mount -t vfat...' command but if i try this when Amarok's playing something i get a 'special device /dev/sda does not exist' error.

    If i stop Amarok it mount perfectly.

    Can anyone think why this might be?
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    Did you mark the mountpoint as one of the directories that Amarok scans recursively for the collection? If it is checked uncheck it. Though it does sound more serious if the device name is not being created.
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    Nope, Amarok only scans the /mnt/music directory, the mountpoint is over in /media.
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    Is there excessive CPU usage from Amarok? There used to be some problems coming from the collection rescan and performance.
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    Is amaroK perhaps trying to access the device? There is the tab on the left for 'Media Device'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigtomrodney
    Is there excessive CPU usage from Amarok? There used to be some problems coming from the collection rescan and performance.
    Nope, minimal. i've turned off the 'watch folders for changes' option so CPU usage is negligable.
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