I’m a music addict,

My
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is always full of music, and syncing it to my computer is a must have
option …

With windows I used PC Suite for it, but now with linux I had to look
for an option …

The best
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I have found is Amarok, the default player for KDE …

It plays almost all known music formats, have a good “intelligent play
lists” option, knows how to download
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, and the best of it, it can sync to devices …

here is a step by step to configure Amarok to sync my N80, it will work
with any S60 or symbian device I think …

First of all, connect your phone using the “data transfer” option with
the USB cable (it will be much faster than using BlueTooth …

Then open Amarok

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Click in configuration, then Configure Amarok

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Go to the mobile devices tab.

Select your device, and configure it as generic audio player

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Click on the blue settings button, and in the openned window, configure
the “mount command” and umount command.

Select your preferred music formats for the device, and the conversion
format for music in other formats.

click Ok

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now, you can go back to de devices tab and navigate in your phone, or
just go to the lists tab, right click any list, and select “Transfer to
device” or “Sync with device”

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The difference between transfer and sync is that transfer only copy the
music to your phone, and sync, removes music that is not on that list.

I’m very happy with this solution

Amarok is a great music player, and now I can sync my cell phone with my
kubuntu laptop

Any one is using a different solution?

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Just a few questions for you …
Are there any other geeks like me, that use their Symbian device with a linux box?
Do you want to read posts about how to sync contacts, calendar, musics, files between your Symbian phone and your linux box?
Do you prefer posts with or without these almost random images?
Where is Wally? (Just kidding)

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Because if you do, I can write or not more of this, and with more details

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I have not posted here for a long time, sorry for that …
Last week I had to format my notebook, and after a little problem with windows, I decided to change my environment to linux, and my choice for distribution was Kubuntu.
After that, I spend about 3 days looking for a way to sync my N80 with my brand new linux OS installed.
And the great news is that a have found a way, the bad news is that you will have to use the console for that (yeap, no UI) at least for the configuration, after it is working you can use the multisync0.90 gui for start the synchronization process …

So lets go with the little tutorial …
for the sync process you will need the opensync tools …
in kubuntu to install all the needed you need just to type:

$sudo apt-get install opensyncutils opensync-plugin-kdepim opensync-plugin-syncml multisync0.90 multisync-tools

That is all, you have all installed and ready to go …
now
lets do some configuration …

$msynctool –addgroup kdeN80
$msynctool –addmember kdeN80 kdepim-sync
$msynctool –addmember kdeN80 syncml-obex-client
$msynctool –configure kdeN80 2

and in the text editor that will open, replace all the text with this:

<config>
<bluetooth_address>XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX</bluetooth_address>
<bluetooth_channel>13</bluetooth_channel>
<identifier>PC Suite</identifier>
<version>1</version>
<wbxml>1</wbxml>
<username>the configured user name</username>
<password>the configured password</password>
<type>2</type>
<usestringtable>1</usestringtable>
<onlyreplace>0</onlyreplace>
<recvlimit>10000</recvlimit>
<contact_db>Contacts</contact_db>
<calendar_db>Calendar</calendar_db>
<note_db>Notes</note_db>
</config>

now you are really ready to go …
to start syncing just type:

$msynctool –sync kdeN80

for the next syncs you can use the multisync0.90 gui.
I hope you enjoy it, because I have not found any help on the web looking for this information …

the coolest thing about this way of syncing is that with almost no change, you can sync your cell phone with google calendar, you will just need to install the correct plugin for opensync:
$sudo apt-get install opensync-plugin-google-calendar

or you can sync directly your phone with your palm.

This synchronization tips can be used for any nokia symbian phone, the only thing that will probably change is the <bluetooth_channel>13</bluetooth_channel> setting.

Now you know that your N80, N70, or any other nokia S60 phone are Linux friendly.

I’ll write some more posts about N80 and linux integration in the next days …

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