{"id":150,"date":"2008-10-08T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-10-08T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T15:19:04","slug":"synchronizing-sansa-fuze-with-amarok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Synchronizing Sansa Fuze with Amarok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying different applications to manage the &#8220;rip CD to FLAC, update tags, download cover art, play in Linux and transcode to OGG and synchronize to my Fuze&#8221; process.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a separate path for Podcasts, but that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>The latest victim is Amarok.\u00c2\u00a0 I started with my CD collection in ~\/Music.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of it is in FLAC format in the standard ARTIST\/ALBUM\/SONGS directory structure.\u00c2\u00a0 In each album directory is Cover.jpg, which is the full size album art.\u00c2\u00a0 As we know from our reading, the Fuze&#8217;s screen is 220&#215;176, so anything bigger than that is a waste of space and if it&#8217;s too big, the Fuze won&#8217;t show it at all.\u00c2\u00a0 So scaling the images is required.\u00c2\u00a0 The fuze will look for a file called folder.jpg to display, so the image file has to be renamed too.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Amarok, I told it where the music was, then tried to tell it about the Fuze.\u00c2\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t autodetect the player, despite it being mounted to <code>\/media\/SANSA FUZE<\/code>.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I installed libmtp.  That didn&#8217;t help either.  So I manually added it as a generic audio player.  Now synchronizing a directory of OGG files worked fine, but no cover art.  Transferring a directory of FLAC files failed entirely, leaving them in the transfer queue with X icons next to them, but not telling me why they failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying different applications to manage the &#8220;rip CD to FLAC, update tags, download cover art, play in Linux and transcode to OGG and synchronize to my Fuze&#8221; process.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a separate path for Podcasts, but that&#8217;s another story. The latest victim is Amarok.\u00c2\u00a0 I started with my CD collection in ~\/Music.\u00c2\u00a0 Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}