[GRLUG] Linux software recommendation for mp3 player

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:34:24PM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 05:45:04PM -0400, Godwin wrote:
> > On 5/16/07, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > > My wife has an mp3 player.  I am looking for a simple drag & drop app
> > > for her to copy files to it.  Linux recognizes the drive as a USB drive
> > > and I can copy files to it.  Short of  teaching her to use the console
> > > (one could wish), I need a simple gui solution.  Rox filer is sort of
> > > what I am looking for but it requires that she open two instances of it
> > > to copy files from one location to the other.  I am surprised that I
> > > have not found an *mp3* app for this purpose.  Any recommendations?
> > 
> > KDE?  Amarok...
> >
> > Gnome?  Banshee...
> 
> I intended to indicate that I do not use KDE in any way on any of my
> boxes.  Both run enlightenment (dr16).
> 
> I glanced at Banshee before but only noticed that it is a music player
> (which I do not need).  Now that I look more closely it is also a music
> manager.  I will give it a shot.  Thanks.

After installing Banshee and its 136 dependencies (on a new Debian
install - thank you, apt), I get this error (apologies for the bad line
wrapping):

jtr at cousy:~$ banshee &
[1] 8447
jtr at cousy:~$ Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: key
System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: key
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,NDesk.DBus.Bus].GetPrev (System.String , System.Int32& ) [0x00000] 
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,NDesk.DBus.Bus].GetSlot (System.String , System.Int32& ) [0x00000] 
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,NDesk.DBus.Bus].ContainsKey (System.String ) [0x00000] 
at NDesk.DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000] 
at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] 
at NDesk.DBus.BusG.Init () [0x00000] 
at Banshee.BansheeEntry.Startup (System.String[] args)[0x00000] 
at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_string[] (string[])
at Banshee.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Banshee.Gui.StartupInvocationHandler startup, System.String[] args) [0x00000] 

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at Banshee.Base.Branding.get_ApplicationIconName () [0x00000] 
at Banshee.Base.IconThemeUtils.SetWindowIcon (Gtk.Window window) [0x00000] 
at Banshee.Gui.Dialogs.ExceptionDialog..ctor (System.Exception e) [0x00000] 
at Banshee.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Banshee.Gui.StartupInvocationHandler 
startup, System.String[] args) [0x00000] at Banshee.BansheeEntry.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] 

[1]+  Exit 1                  banshee

Any thoughts?
-- 
john-thomas
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