recently bought a usb mp3 player but cannot load anything to it

You most likely will not need wine. What is the make and model of the device? Does the device show up in nautilus?

Is MP3 player configured as a USB mass memory storage (default mode for external disk and USB key) or as a Windows Mobile Device ?
Could you plug MP3 player, run command lsusb and report result ?

Dear actionparsnip ty, so much &My apologies to you all that have written in to reply I appreciate it.

 the model 7 make are sport mp3 (#e77de32d7l) not exactly sure of the model number but this may be it.
when trying to open it up it wont but comes up as generic audio product drive hope this helps, I have tried for it to show up like you said but no cannot do that.

i have a reader writer that show up as myson CS18819A3 there are four 1 micro and three other normal sized sd car ports, but i cannot tell which is which either

Hi Delance ty for your help does this help you i plugged the sport usb player in and these were the results although now it only seems to be my reader writer is showing up.

itshare@itshare-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:0111 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd KU-9908 Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04cf:9920 Myson Century, Inc. CS8819A2-114 Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
itshare@itshare-desktop:~$

When you plug in the device, wait 10 seconds then run:

dmesg | tail -n 10

What is output?

Could you try another USB port and wait 10 s before doing lsusb . Sometimes USB ports of same PC are different (connected to a different chipset or mechanical tolerance).

Hi Delance ty for your help does this help you i plugged the sport usb
player in and these were the results although now it only seems to be my
reader writer is showing up.

 the model 7 make are sport mp3 (#e77de32d7l) not exactly sure of the
model number but this may be it.
when trying to open it up it wont but comes up as generic audio product
drive hope this helps, I have tried for it to show up like you said but
no cannot do that.

i have a reader writer that show up as myson CS18819A3 there are four 1
micro and three other normal sized sd car ports, but i cannot tell which
is which either

itshare@itshare-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:0111 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd KU-9908
Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04cf:9920 Myson Century, Inc. CS8819A2-114 Mass
Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
itshare@itshare-desktop:~$

Your MP3 player is not seen on USB bus.
Did you use USB cable provided with MP3 player (some device works properly only with provided USB cable, I had issue with an external drive) ?
Can you see USB key or external drive on USB bus (use again lsusb command) ?

Could you run command:
    tail -f kern.log
insert the MP3 player and report new text

How ya doing action, thankyou for trying hard to help me

 this is what happened then when i plugged it in a different usb port

itshare@itshare-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail -n 10
[ 835.404082] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 59
[ 835.504395] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[ 835.744068] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 60
[ 835.840423] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[ 836.080066] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 61
[ 836.148322] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[ 836.388068] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 62
[ 836.456345] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[ 836.696093] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 63
[ 836.764385] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
itshare@itshare-desktop:~$

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Hello & ty for trying to help me Delance,
this is what happened when i tried to run the command you sent me to run
itshare@itshare-desktop:~$ tail -f kern.log
tail: cannot open `kern.log' for reading: No such file or directory
tail: no files remaining
itshare@itshare-desktop:~$

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:15 AM, delance <
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> Your question #178344 on util-linux in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+question/178344
>
> delance posted a new comment:
> Your MP3 player is not seen on USB bus.
> Did you use USB cable provided with MP3 player (some device works properly
> only with provided USB cable, I had issue with an external drive) ?
> Can you see USB key or external drive on USB bus (use again lsusb command)
> ?
>
> Could you run command:
> tail -f kern.log
> insert the MP3 player and report new text
>
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> You received this question notification because you asked the question.
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thankyou to you all I had the sd card not pushed in properly I think because it now works, sso thankyou so much for you trying to help me Delance as well as andrew action.

Now it works

Thanks delance, that solved my question.