[Solved] Automount Generic MP3 Player with UTF-8 encoding

Hello, everybody!
Ubuntu refugee here.
So far I'm going fine with Arch, I just have a couple of problems related to my Generic USB Mp3 player:
1) I want HAL to mount the player with UTF-8 encoding. Right now, it shows Arabic characters as ??????.
2) In Ubuntu, it used to recognize the player as an MP3 player, give it a nice icon, and add it as a music source in Rhythmbox. In Arch, on the other hand, the player is mounted as a generic USB flash drive. How can I make Arch recognize it as an MP3 player?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by farghal (2008-05-10 20:17:09)

GOT IT WORKING!! Yay!
I got the solution from here:
http://blog.pcode.nl/2006/08/24/introdu … io-player/
The trick is to make HAL identify your Digital Audio Player (DAP) by adding a rule to /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi  --  and since, in my case, Ubuntu already had a 10-usb-music-players.fdi file that recognized my player, all I had to do was boot up from an Ubuntu live cd and copy Ubuntu's 10-usb-music-players.fdi over Arch's.
Now my issues with Arch are down to only one: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=360647
Thanks everybody.
Last edited by farghal (2008-05-10 20:16:49)

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