Device that formerly mounted with GVFS now mounts with MTP

[dpitch40]

When I was using an older version of Linux Mint (I believe 14), my Sony Walkman would automatically mount with GVFS and be accessible as a normal external file system. Ever since I installed 17 (and now 17.1), it mounts as an MTP device which is slower and can't be accessed like a normal file system; in particular, it is no longer accessible to Python except through a hard-to-use and buggy module, which breaks the script I had been using to sync to it. It also no longer works in conjunction with Banshee, even though Bansee is supposed to support MTP. I think that this PPA is supposed to allow MTP devices to be accessed via GVFS, which sounds just like what I used to be able to do. Has it been removed from newer Linux Mint installations? I tried the following steps to install it:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

But this does not appear to have solved the problem. What am I doing wrong?

[mank_in]

ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp is for ubuntu 12.04,12.10, and 13.04 (LM 13,14 and 15 ), not for LM 17 ( based on ubuntu 14.04)

what is your sony device id , maybe we can try blocking libmtp for detecting it as mtp device.
connect device to computer and post output of terminal command:

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lsusb

Edit : I found this article, maybe it will help you : http://ducakedhare.co.uk/?p=1317

[dpitch40]

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Bus 002 Device 005: ID 5986:0364 Acer, Inc 
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1852:7022 GYROCOM C&C Co., LTD 
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 054c:05a6 Sony Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0461:4d42 Primax Electronics, Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 10ab:0816 USI Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5139 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I'm guessing it's the Sony one. I would rather not have to manually mount/unmount the Walkman with a terminal command; I did not need to do this before.

[dpitch40]

ppa:langdalepl/gvfs-mtp is for ubuntu 12.04,12.10, and 13.04 (LM 13,14 and 15 ), not for LM 17 ( based on ubuntu 14.04)

Is this why my device automatically mounted as GVFS in Linux Mint 14?

[mank_in]

Is this why my device automatically mounted as GVFS in Linux Mint 14?

From that PPA description :
13.10 (Saucy) and newer versions of Ubuntu contain all of these changes, so you don't need to use this ppa any more.

MTP is slower because :quote from Wikipedia :
MTP allows no parallelism, unlike USB mass storage or NAS. MTP has been built to only allow a single operation at a time (for example, read, write or delete operation), while no other operation can be executed until the previous operation is complete.

I don't know if this will work but you can try edit : /lib/udev/rules.d/69-libmtp.rules
search for # Sony NWZ-E464
It will show you the rule for device is:
ATTR{idVendor}=="054c", ATTR{idProduct}=="05a6", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", MODE="660", GROUP="audio", ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1", ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1"

add # in front of line ATTR to disable the rule, to:

#ATTR{idVendor}=="054c", ATTR{idProduct}=="05a6", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", MODE="660", GROUP="audio", ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1", ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1"

Reboot , If not working or your walkman not recognize you can remove the # again
You can try change ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1" and ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1" to "0" too

[dpitch40]

When I try that, the Walkman mounts as gphoto2://[usb:002,006]/. When I start Banshee, my Walkman unmounts and is unable to be mounted again even after I quit Banshee, saying something about a camera error (which is strange since it doesn't have a camera)... Ever since my Walkman started mounting as MTP, it has been incompatible with Banshee; I can't have it mounted when Banshee is running. (Even though Banshee is supposed to have MTP support...) Why is this happening if newer versions of Ubuntu contain the PPA already?