Banshee syncs to ipod but then there are no songs/playlists on the ipod

Question

I found the .net plugin architeture very complex to use as plugin platform. I think that an plugin interface needs be simple to 3rd coders develop with.

Do you know/use/etc some plugin techinique more simple and effective? To be more exact, let's imagine that we will develop a text editor like notepad, that needs (by example) plugins for different syntax highlighiting, interface changes, shell integration, etc.

Do you will use the built in .net plugin code, or will build/use some different?

Solution

Banshee 1.6's support for newer ipods can be hit and miss. However the Banshee team have been working pretty hard to make this work on newer versions by porting it to gio/udev. This improves ipod support, but unfortunately is not out in stable form yet.

However you can use the following PPA if you want to use the current 1.7.x development release:

ppa:banshee-team/banshee-unstable

If you want to follow the stable releases of Banshee (which will have 1.8 when it comes out) you can use this PPA:

ppa:banshee-team/ppa

I recommend using the 1.7 PPA for now, and when 1.8 is released switching to that PPA and you should be good. I've been using 1.7 for a while now and I haven't had problems. From your question it looks like you're running the stable PPA already, so switching to the unstable one for now should do the trick.

If it doesn't work in 1.7, then you've found a bug, you should report that to the Banshee developers.

Comments

[Curmudgeonlybumbly]

This sounds like it may be a bug report. You may get better results filing a problem on Launchpad. Try other (non-PPA) Banshee versions as well; see if that helps.

[alexpotato]

So I added the unstable PPA, upgraded to the latest version and still the same issue. I'm going to open a bug report.