SanDisk MP3 Player Question

benchasebrown · 12-27-2006, 03:38 PM

What I am asking for is just the general steps one should take in mounting USB mass storage devices so that they are accessible and writable via the Linux box. Also if anyone knows of a good MP3 player management tool for Linux let me know. Thanks ahead of time for the help!

hollywoodb · 12-27-2006, 05:47 PM

If the player is UMS (mass storage), check the output of dmesg after you plug it in to your system. For example, my iAudio player is given /dev node sda.

I then use

Code:

mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/usb

to mount the drive, and move audio to it as if it were a regular drive. AFAIK most players that are UMS can be mounted as 'vfat' filesystem.

As far as management goes, I'm not to "up" on what's new and fresh, but I believe AmaroK has support for UMS audio players.

David_Midwest-IL · 01-13-2007, 10:22 PM

I am running ubuntu edgy 6.10 Have a sandisk e200r all i did to jet it to work was install usbmount like this :

sudo apt-get install usbmount

works good for song still try to get video to work
there is a thing called easytag to edit mp3 tag and and covers works good for me

granth · 01-13-2007, 11:27 PM

Amarok is a great music player/manager. It comes installed by default in Slackware 11.

If you are running kernel 2.6, you should add the appropriate udev rule for your device.