Device tab stays empty
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I'm using gentoo linux, systemd/plasma/merged-usr profile, amd64 architecture.
Strawberry versions tested 1.0.21 to 1.0.23, qt-5.15.12, kernel 6.6.13
Problem observed: device tab stays completely empty. Expected items are USB-drives, SD-Cards, etc being shown, but nothing is actually shown. No matter whether mounted or not, seems like all external storage devices are completely ignored.
I tried starting strawberry with --verbose option, but no hint what could go wrong.
What are the preconditions for this to work? Are there any further diagnostic informations available other than starting with --verbose?
BTW: In plasma, automatic detection of attached USB drives works perfectly, they are immediately shown in the device section and they can be used normally.
Thanks, Alex
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@alexp I'm speculating here (since I can not find any documentation on the feature after a quick search), but chances are the "devices" tab is meant for something else.
I.e. I believe this is only for H/W devices meant for media playback, mainly optical CD drives. It could perhaps also include MTP devices - some MP3 players use this protocol - albeit the protocol could also include other things besides audio. My BluRay drive does appear under devices.
After all, everything you've mentioned contains only regular files. How could Strawberry know if a removable device contains media files meant for Strawberry (or something else)? Strawberry can open regular files just fine.
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@WildPenguin The idea here is to have options for copying files to the media, e.g. transcoding (flac/ogg/...->mp3) in case the target device cannot deal with them. Also automatic file renaming (e.g. removing invalid chars for FAT) is such an option. Clementine had such a feature, Amarok had it, and AFAIR Strawberry also has this.
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@alexp
This sounds like either Strawberry is not built with GIO and udisks2 support, or do not have permissions to list the devices. -
@jonas udisksctl dump as user works fine
