USB drive mounts as media player

beanbox · 06-02-2007, 12:43 PM

Hi all this is not a critical problem, just a quirky thing that bugs me.

I am running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I have a 2Gb usb drive and up until a couple of weeks ago my system would mount it as a "usb drive" but after installing Amarok, it is now mounted as a media player. There is not any audio files on the drive.

pusrob · 06-02-2007, 01:25 PM

Hi!
Amarok is the source of the problem of course. Open Amarok, go to Settings menu, there Configure Amarok... Here press on Media Devices icon on the left of the window. It will be uin the bottom. Here search for your pendrive, and from the drop-down menu select this: Do not handle. Press OK or Apply, and now your pendrive won't be mounted as a media player. Thats all.

beanbox · 06-03-2007, 06:48 PM

Thank you for your reply pusrob. I have done as you sugjested and when the pen drive mounts is properties dialog still shows.

Lable:
Size: 1.9 GB
Media: Digital Audio Player
UUID: 7B2D-53D6
File System: vfat (FAT16)

Mount Point: /media/disk
File System: vfat
Mount Options: rw nosuid nodev uid=1000 fmask=0077 dmask=0077
codepage=cp437 iocharset=iso8859-1 shortname=mixed utf8

Thanks again

pusrob · 06-04-2007, 03:35 AM

And what will happen if you temporarely uninstall Amarok? When uninstalling, don't forget to delete the hidden file of amarok in your home directory (this contains settings). If this problem still occures, than I have no idea.