My MP3 player is an MTP device, until recently Kubuntu/Amarok failed to access it although everything was configured correctly.
That changed with 8.10 and Amarok 2 and I can browse and play tracks using Amarok but Dolphin still won't show the player as a disk drive (though I might not be looking in the right place).
I use a Windows media manager running on VirtualBox to sync tracks to the device as it allows me to auto-convert tracks to MP3 at a specific quality and transfer album art.
A year ago VirtualBox could access the MP3 player as a USB device but it seems that as MTP support improved in Kubuntu it was necessary to quit Amarok before VirtualBox could access it. Now I am finding that even quitting Amarok is not releasing the player and VirtualBox reports that the device is 'busy with a previous request' so I am guessing that Kubuntu is not letting go.
Is there a way of temporarily un-mounting the player in Linux so that I can access it through VirtualBox?
That changed with 8.10 and Amarok 2 and I can browse and play tracks using Amarok but Dolphin still won't show the player as a disk drive (though I might not be looking in the right place).
I use a Windows media manager running on VirtualBox to sync tracks to the device as it allows me to auto-convert tracks to MP3 at a specific quality and transfer album art.
A year ago VirtualBox could access the MP3 player as a USB device but it seems that as MTP support improved in Kubuntu it was necessary to quit Amarok before VirtualBox could access it. Now I am finding that even quitting Amarok is not releasing the player and VirtualBox reports that the device is 'busy with a previous request' so I am guessing that Kubuntu is not letting go.
Is there a way of temporarily un-mounting the player in Linux so that I can access it through VirtualBox?
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