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 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Thanks, Dan Lund "This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine." --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss