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Mass Storage

Posted Aug 7, 2012 22:08 UTC (Tue) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)
In reply to: Mass Storage by rfunk
Parent article: The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

> While MTP isn't a great solution (especially for Linux)...

I've noticed this as well, and I'm surprised its still a problem after this long. MTP may be a proprietary protocol, and difficult to support in general, but the code to support it on the device side in Android is presumably open-source. Couldn't that be used to implement a perfectly compatible FUSE/GVFS MTP interface specifically for Android devices?

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Posted Aug 7, 2012 22:24 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] (2 responses)

I found these FUSE solutions, but haven't tried them:
http://code.google.com/p/mtpfs/
https://launchpad.net/mtp-fuse/

gvfs-gphoto2 may work, but I mostly found complaints about it not working.

Most of the MTP work in Linux-land seems to have been to support old MP3 players.

If I could just get rsync to work in computer-initiated mode I'd be happy, but for now I use "rsync backup for Android" to copy certain directories over to the computer.

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Posted Aug 7, 2012 22:45 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

I had tried both and they treated extensions as the rule and would refuse to upload a tarball since it couldn't figure out where to put it. I'm also pretty picky about my music layout and I couldn't see a way to upload a directory structure, just files which presumably get "auto sorted" (poorly). That was when it didn't time out or crash of course.

Mass Storage

Posted Aug 8, 2012 0:38 UTC (Wed) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

I just ran across this project, which looks promising:

https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs

It put the (mp3/flac) files where I told it to, rather than sorting them into random subdirectories according to its own scheme, and the performance was reasonable. However, it may be a bit unstable yet; it seemed to lock up at one point while I was scanning through the camera folder with Gwenview, requiring a USB reconnect.

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Posted Aug 13, 2012 9:19 UTC (Mon) by ldo (guest, #40946) [Link]

If it’s any help, I put together mtpy, which is a high-level Pythonic wrapper around libmtp. mtpull is a simple example script using mtpy that I use for pulling photos off my Galaxy Nexus.