Carl's Notes

Seriously, there are some things that Linux just can't get right.
Granted, they are rare occasions, but they do happen.

Witness, for instance, MTP support.

MTP stands for Media Transport Protocol, and is a digital protocol for storing music and pictures (along with playlist information) on storage devices such as MP3 players.

Current Linux software that supports MTP usually only support adding and removing music, with claims of supporting playlist information (I don't care about pictures), but either only support adding and removing music from playlists and not updating them (ie, changing the order the music is listed in) or completely breaks the playlist data.

When Linux fails, it can fail rather hard...

I have to resort to using Windows to fix the playlist issues, and can't even use my Windows XP Pro install as the drivers to support my Samsung YP-K3 don't quite work, which means I have to resort to using Windows 7 Pro.

Now, I shouldn't really mind having to resort to Windows to do something Linux is supposed to handle, but it still means I have to stop whatever I'm doing, save all my current progress, and reboot over to another OS, update the playlist data, then decide if I want to switch back to Linux or play some game on the Windows side.

Most of what gets me is all the work involved in stopping whatever I happen to be doing down to a state I can shut Linux down with.

So far I've tried a great deal of Linux software over the few years I've had the device, and even over the various versions each has had, none of them have really had all the features working correctly.
(the most annoying being the playlist incompatibilities mentioned above)

I guess for the moment I'm stuck using Windows for a job that Linux is supposed to do... -.-