Walkman problems on Ubuntu Jaunty

Written for Blacklight by ChrisLees on 2009-05-10

There is a bug in Ubuntu 9.04 that attempts to mount the Walkman as an MTP device. This unfortunately only allows for music to be loaded, and prevents you from being able to load video or photos onto the device. This problem also affects some other MP3 players.

There are workarounds available apparently, but they have not worked for me. This also means that Blacklight is useless if you are a Gnome user; yes, that's right, KDE is not affected.

I'm also providing a bounty: If you can release a fix for the problem (not a workaround, remember other MP3 players are affected) and get it pushed to Ubuntu Jaunty users as an update, I'll pay $100 Australian dollars into your Paypal account. If you can maintain the fix, so that Walkmans (at least) work perfectly in Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I'll pay another $100 AUD to you on verification that the Walkmans still work fine on the release version of 10.04 LTS.

At this stage, I don't anticipate a release of Blacklight that can solve the problem or implement a workaround.