MTP Support

MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) supports the transfer of music files on digital audio players and movie files on portable media players

• MTP info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
• MTP specification: http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/MTP_1.0.zip

Dependencies

• libmtp (Debian/Ubuntu: sudo aptitude install libmtp7 mtp-tools)
• pymtp (Debian: sudo aptitude install python-pymtp)
• Compatible MTP device, see http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=compatibility

Helpful commands

• The command lsusb. You should see a line corresponding to your device.
• The command mtp-detect should dump a huge amount of information about your device.
• The command mtp-tracks should list all tracks present on your device.

Enabling MTP support in gPodder

• Go to Preferences, open the "Player" tab and choose "mtp-based device"

Troubleshooting

• first, verify that you have libtmp and pymtp working
• run from a shell gPodder --verbose
• send a bug to gPodder including a description on what has happened and the result of the previous command

MTP support has mostly been written by Jérôme Chabod.