Sony Walkman USB not working after upgrade to 9.04

[humphreybc]

So in 8.10 I would plug in my Sony MP3 Walkman (NWZ-S616F) and it would recognize it, mount it automatically and open it in nautilus for me to drag and drop my songs onto.

In 9.04 it recognizes it as something with a different name "Sony Corp. WALKMAN" and then mounts it, but nothing shows up in the folder.. it's empty. It says up the top "These files are on a Digital Audio Player" and then has a button saying "Open VLC media player" to the right.

Any ideas??

[yenliangl]

Check this out

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/347902

and the temporary solution is to kill the process of gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor

[humphreybc]

This bug still hasn't been fixed... it's very annoying not being able to put songs onto my MP3 player.

[apolonio]

For my NWZ-S616F, It was necessary to kill gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor, after that connect the device and that's it. Nautilus will open it as a normal usb memory and you can put music into it again.
I hope we will have an official work around soon, I have some problems with Hal with intrepid as well, it looks like sony walkman is not so ubuntu compatible.

[3rdalbum]

The "kill gphoto" trick hasn't worked for me, and the "edit this text file" thing temporarily stopped my CDs from automounting. The Walkman bug only affects Gnome, so whenever I need to work with my MP3 player I just load up KDE. Not an elegant solution but it works until somebody pulls their finger out and fixes the problem!

[xile_]

Killing the gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor worked for me.
(unplug the device and plug it in again - should be automatically mounted)

Peripheral: NWZ-A815
Ubuntu Ver: 9.04 (jaunty)
Laptop Mod: IBM Thinkpad x61s

[shadowlands]

How do I kill it? Can you provided step by step directions or a link to the directions on how to kill it so I can use my sonywalkman.

[3rdalbum]

How do I kill it? Can you provided step by step directions or a link to the directions on how to kill it so I can use my sonywalkman.

killall gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor

If that doesn't work, time to install KDE

[blackSP]

I've posted this link, got many good tip and decided I want the Sony NWZ-S639F 16gb, their smallest player with excellent (sopund) ratings.

But reading the problems you all have maybe I shouldn't???

What do you think?

[C J]

killall gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor

worked for me thanx