mp3 player

When it is plugged in can you copy the results of an lsusb to here so that we can see what your device is being detected as?

System->Accessories->Terminal

lsusb

(I upgraded to 8.04 last night, but still have the problem)

This is the result of lsusb. "TEAC Corp." would make sense, that is the manufacturer of my mp3 player

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c517 Logitech, Inc. LX710 Cordless Desktop Laser
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0644:8014 TEAC Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I'm having some difficulty locating your player based on it's ID.
What is the brand and model?

No sign of it in the Device database
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=teac

Likewise, a search for "0644:8014" on Google yields no hits (been a while since I've got zero hits :) )

Given that it is detected though by lsusb, I wonder if the MP3 can be mounted like a drive.
Try the follwing in a terminal window
sudo apt-get install usbmount

That auto-mounts USB devices on plug-in.

Ah yes I'm not surprised you had trouble identifying the player, it's a bit specialized. It's a Tascam MP-BT1

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Tascam-MPBT1-Portable-MP3-Bass-Trainer?sku=241198

Thanks for the good advice. I installed usbmount, and restarted. I still don't see the player mounted in media:/// It is still listed in lsusb.

Is it possible for me to mount the device manually? Does lsusb give me enough info to do that?

Interesting device.
So when it worked before, could you see the contents of MP3 device as a drive under media:// ?
Was it mounting the device so that you could see the contents like a drive?

Guessing here and not sure that it exists in versions before 8.04...
Right-click on the blank area of the top toolbar and choose "Add to Panel" and select the "Disk Mounter"
This will show an icon for every drive detected.
I'm wondering if there would be an icon when you plug in the MP3 drive.

Hi Tony

Thanks for ur help. Yes it was mounting the device like a drive and I could just drop mp3s in a folder to transfer them over.

I don't have disk mounter, I'm using kubuntu 8.04... kde environment.

I've been reading up a little, and I think I'd like to try something like:

# mount -t XXX /dev/XXX /home/user/foldername

I don't know how to get the device name to fill in there, or the filesystem type. Is there a way to get lsusb to tell me that? or another tool i can use?

Thanks again

These commands show the drives that are attached by different characteristics

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -lah
ls /dev/disk/by-label -lah
ls /dev/disk/by-id -lah

Alternatively you can see the currently mounted drives with

cat /etc/mtab

or else

mount

Finally, the way to get drives to mount on initial install is to edit this file

sudo gedit /etc/fstab