I am running Banshee 1.8.0 on a more-or-less vanilla Meerkat installation. I was most pleased when I plugged in an old iPod Nano and it Just Worked.
However, when plugging in the iPod, Nautilus/Gnome asks for an application to handle the newly inserted iPod. The dialog presents no applications that can handle the device and allows no manual choice.
I have reinstalled banshee with apt-get purge
and also install --reinstall
but neither added an association. As before, when manually opened, banshee happily talks to the iPod, it just won't launch on plug.
I suspect there is a missing association in gconf or something similar but I'm not sure where this information lives.
Best Answer
First try to set your preferred application for the media player in System->Preferences->Preferred applications:
If you don't have banshee in your list, select custom and add command /usr/bin/banshee. And if that doesn't work you can try also with File manager preferences:
Where I have set "Ask what to do", try to set as banshee
old: THIS might help as this happend before.