I have a Sansa E250 MP3 player I use with Banshee. It was working fine until recently I plugged it up and I would try to send Mp3’s to it and it would give me an Error saying “object reference not set to an instance of an object”
After no luck on-line and trying various codecs I found out that for some reason the new Banshee wanted to transcode file before they go onto my device.
So if you are having this issue try this, it worked fine for me
in the file you created in your root folder on the device named .is_audio_player add the line output_formats=audio/mp3 that will tell it to accept Mp3’s without trans-coding. Restart Banshee and it should work fine again.
Copy of my file .is_audio_player
audio_folders=MUSIC/,RECORDINGS/
folder_depth=2
output_formats=audio/mp3
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I had to change the line to
output_formats=audio/mp3,audio/mpeg
..now it works ;-)
Thank you very much, by the way!
Many thanks for that, you’ve just saved me hours of teeth gnashing and hair pulling!
Thankyou for that, it worked perfectly with my Zen Stone Plus.
Good call – stopped working after I upgraded to Jaunty Jackalope. Working again now!
here is some useful stuff for the .is_audio_player file
http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/wiki/index.php/.is_audio_player_file_format