USB flash device mounted as a music player

[spinstartshere]

There's none on mine.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

This post could be related to an Ubuntu bug filed at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...nfo/+bug/90286
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Hey Guys, found a possible answer for this, works for me.

Picked up the solution from here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...nfo/+bug/90286

To handle this manually, insert your offending flash drive, and once loaded run

lsusb

my output is as follows:

tim@fiesty:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 006: ID 090c:1000 Feiya Technology Corp. Memory Bar
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 046d:c03e Logitech, Inc. Premium Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Remove your flash drive

The "Feiya Technology Corp. Memory Bar" is what we are looking for, yours might be a different model but the fix should be the same. This device carries the same product ID as other products that are music players. We need to remove the entry from:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi

First do a back up in case anything goes wrong:

sudo cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi.bak

Then open up /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi as root:

sudo gedit /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi

Scroll down through the file until you find the entry for your disk:

<append key="portable_audio_player.input_formats" type="strlist">audio/x-ms-wma</append>
          </match>
	</match>

        <!-- Feiya Technology Corp Memory Bar -->
        <match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.vendor_id" int="0x090c">
          <match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.product_id" int="0x1000">
            <merge key="portable_audio_player.type" type="string">generic</merge>
            <merge key="portable_audio_player.access_method" type="string">storage</merge>
            <append key="portable_audio_player.input_formats" type="strlist">audio/mpeg</append>
          </match>
        </match>

	<!-- Peak Digital Audio Player -->
        <match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.vendor_id" int="0xd7d">

Delete the bolded section, and save and close the file.

Reinsert your flash drive and it should now appear as a flash drive/disk and not invoke the music app!

This action may get broken again by hal backports or updates, until the devs sort it out.

If it doesn't work, restore your original .fdi file

Hope this helps (you do all this at your own risk, I can't take responsibility if this does damage to your system!)

[Unicast]

Nice one, worked like a charm.

And thanks for the PM alerting me to your post!

[djaya2]

Thanks, worked for me too.

[Glsg]

I've tried this workaround, and it works concerning the wrong recognization, but I'm not able to mount the device.
Anyone could help?

(thanks in advance, and sorry 4 my english, I'm italian)

[zeroword]

I tried but I could not find a Feiya Memory Bar entry anywhere.