Alan McGovern is working on moving Banshee to libgpod. It's in a decent enough shape to get wider testing. These are instructions on how to test it:

1. Getting It

• your distro here

• Source: http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee

• Deps you need:

  • http://github.com/mono/gio-sharp

  • http://github.com/mono/gudev-sharp

  • http://github.com/mono/gkeyfile-sharp

2. Things You Should Know

• The Hardware Detection Layer is new and the iDevice DAP extension is new, so even if you don't have an iDevice we could still do with overall device testing.
• iphone 4, ipod touch 4, ipad and nano touch (6G) don't work for now (unsupported by libgpod)

3. Testing the Hardware

1. Plug it in.
2. Launch Banshee from the terminal: "banshee-1 --debug".
3. Test syncing the following things to the device.
   • Sync music to and from the device (drag and drop and autosync)
   • Sync to Playlists and Smart Playlists works, but it's not perfect (see BGO#663065, BGO#638602, BGO#576722).
4. If it works, buy Alan a beer, if not:

4. Filing Bugs

1. File a bug in Banshee. Make sure you use the Component dropdown to choose the kind of device it is.

2. Attach all --debug spew from the terminal
3. Device information:
   • Mention the model of the device, the color, and the capacity.

   • The part/model is in Preferences->About or Settings->About, and looks like MB1234LL/M or something like that

   • The version of the firmware
   • The last three digits of the serial number. (It's on the back)
4. Attach output of "udevadm info --export-db"
5. Attach output of "gvfs-mount --list"

5. Managing bugs

Bug triagers should assign all portable device bugs filed following these instructions to Alan McGovern (alan dot mcgovern at gmail dot com).