Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:50:22 -0500 From: mfv <mfv@bway.net> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Copying music from FreeBSD to an Xperia Z3 Message-ID: <20160214115022.33332634@gecko4> In-Reply-To: <56C098B4.30001@qeng-ho.org> References: <20160214143705.GA1290@schweikhardt.net> <56C098B4.30001@qeng-ho.org>
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> On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 15:09 Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > >On 14/02/2016 14:37, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: >> hello, world\n >> >> I want to copy some mp3 music files onto an Sony Xperia Z3. I naively >> assumed it would show up as a USB mass storage device when I plug the >> USB cable. But all I get in dmesg is >> >> ugen0.4: <Sony> at usbus0 >> >> How can I copy mp3 files from my FreeBSD box onto the device? > >Many of the later smartphones don't present as USB disks, supposedly >on the grounds of safety. Instead they talk MTP (media transport >protocol). I've never used it myself, but Wikipedia says Gnome's GVFS >supports it, as does KDE's KIO slave. Going the FUSE route you might >look at sysutils/fusefs-simple-mtpfs or sysutils/mtpfs. If you want a >standalone program take a look at audio/gmtp. > Hello, I am not all that familiar with cell phones, but I do have an Android tablet that has an microSD slot. I am able to copy files between the tablet and FreeBSD by using a microSD reader on the latter. Since the Xperia is Android-based with a microSD slot, this may be another option, if all else fails. Cheers ... Marek
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