more mp3

[Dan Lund]

your mp3 player is more than likely formatted as vfat/fat16.
chown'ing/chmod'ing will have no effect.

On Dec 12, 2007 8:33 AM, Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
> well, the mp3 player appeared as a drive but when an ogg file was copied onto
> it the player reported that there were no files in it (not even the two
> sample files that came with it) and that nothing would. then it was
> reconnected to the USB and it shows:
>
>         media:/sdc1
> with the directory:
>         micin.dir (whiuch is empty)
> and the three music files
>
> ls -la /media/sdc1 reveals that:
>         . is drwx
>         .. is drwxr-xr--
>         the music files are -rwx------
> and     micin.dir is drwx------
>
> I attempted chmod 777 but it didn't seem to do anything. Any ideas about how
> to fix this?
>
> hmmmmm..... the package 'mp3/wma format support'. Is there a way to change
> this? oh well... only out 30 if I broke it!
> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 1:43 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> > I just got a nextar ma566 mp3 player. Any ideas on how to download mp3
> > files onto it?  I had hoped that linux would mearly see it as another
> > drive...... nevermind. It just appeared. Thanks for your help? :D
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