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The only one that sounds painful to me is being unable to access files on an Android device. I know some will disagree...

capableweb 5y ago
As I've started to move my collection of music from Spotify to downloading FLAC from Bandcamp, I found that libimobiledevice + ifuse (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS) seems to do the job good enough. Only thing that took some time to figure out is that I need to move the music files into a directory specific for the application I use (VOX) rather than the general "Music" directory, as it seems files are not shared between applications and the music app doesn't have any directory exposed for me to put them in. I'd love to be able to just plug the damn phone into USB and transferring files like a normal person though, but Apple doesn't seem to want to play that game, sadly...
disruptiveink 5y ago
This is really the only issue from that post that I would really like on macOS. SSH mounting as well, potentially. The rest are annoyances that while I believe are very important to the author, they feel rather irrelevant to me. Right now, Android File Transfer of macOS is so bad I basically just use adb for everything.
- volume 5y ago
  what about sshfs? brew install sshfs
nyanpasu64 5y ago
In my experience, Android MTP worked semi-reliably on Windows (I'd often encounter "ghost files" which couldn't be renamed or accessed, since MTP and Android's media cache desynced from the underlying Linux filesystem), and often failed entirely on Linux (trying to open the phone hung or caused the Linux MTP daemon to crash immediately or after some time). I much prefer adb push/pull, which has always been rock-solid as long as adb can see your phone.
- mschuster91 5y ago
  MTP is a clusterfuck of epic proportions for anything involving more than a hundred files, much less 1000+, no matter the platform of either the host or the device. Seriously I have utterly no idea why no one has bothered to create a new protocol that is designed with the capabilities and capacities of modern devices in mind, not with "fits for managing a 256MB-sized MP3 player or a point and click consumer camera with a 2 GB SD card".

capableweb 5y ago

As I've started to move my collection of music from Spotify to downloading FLAC from Bandcamp, I found that libimobiledevice + ifuse (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS) seems to do the job good enough. Only thing that took some time to figure out is that I need to move the music files into a directory specific for the application I use (VOX) rather than the general "Music" directory, as it seems files are not shared between applications and the music app doesn't have any directory exposed for me to put them in. I'd love to be able to just plug the damn phone into USB and transferring files like a normal person though, but Apple doesn't seem to want to play that game, sadly...

disruptiveink 5y ago

This is really the only issue from that post that I would really like on macOS. SSH mounting as well, potentially. The rest are annoyances that while I believe are very important to the author, they feel rather irrelevant to me. Right now, Android File Transfer of macOS is so bad I basically just use adb for everything.

volume 5y ago
what about sshfs? brew install sshfs

nyanpasu64 5y ago

In my experience, Android MTP worked semi-reliably on Windows (I'd often encounter "ghost files" which couldn't be renamed or accessed, since MTP and Android's media cache desynced from the underlying Linux filesystem), and often failed entirely on Linux (trying to open the phone hung or caused the Linux MTP daemon to crash immediately or after some time). I much prefer adb push/pull, which has always been rock-solid as long as adb can see your phone.

mschuster91 5y ago
MTP is a clusterfuck of epic proportions for anything involving more than a hundred files, much less 1000+, no matter the platform of either the host or the device. Seriously I have utterly no idea why no one has bothered to create a new protocol that is designed with the capabilities and capacities of modern devices in mind, not with "fits for managing a 256MB-sized MP3 player or a point and click consumer camera with a 2 GB SD card".