Unclear on how to use USB Device
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I have 22.04 Ubuntu Workstation, and a SanDisk USB MP3 player. I am able to mount the device, see the filesystem, access the files. But when I attempt to use the device in Strawberry I get various issues.
WHEN MOUNTED TO FILESYSTEM:
- The Device is New: I double click on it, it becomes available and says 0 songs This seems to work.
- The Device is Known: It says 0 songs. Still seems to be ok.
- Select a song, or any combination of songs:
a. Option A Strawberry Freezes and has to be force quit
b. Option B All files fail to copy
WHEN UNMOUNTED TO FILESYSTEM:
- Nothing in Strawberry seems to work at all.
My understanding was that to use Strawberry, the device should be unmounted at the Filesystem level.
What can I do to get this working? I have used fdisk to verify that the OS sees it at /dev/sdc
Thank you Laura (webmistress32)
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@webmistress32 said in Unclear on how to use USB Device:
I have 22.04 Ubuntu Workstation, and a SanDisk USB MP3 player. I am able to mount the device, see the filesystem, access the files. But when I attempt to use the device in Strawberry I get various issues.
WHEN MOUNTED TO FILESYSTEM:
- The Device is New: I double click on it, it becomes available and says 0 songs This seems to work.
- The Device is Known: It says 0 songs. Still seems to be ok.
- Select a song, or any combination of songs:
a. Option A Strawberry Freezes and has to be force quit
b. Option B All files fail to copy
Check if the files contains any characters not allowed on a FAT filesystem.
WHEN UNMOUNTED TO FILESYSTEM:
- Nothing in Strawberry seems to work at all.
My understanding was that to use Strawberry, the device should be unmounted at the Filesystem level.
No, it needs to be mounted.
If you unmount the device, you will need to plug it back in for the system to see it again. But you should be able to mount it in strawberry by double-clicking, and double-click again to connect to it.
Maybe you're thinking about MTP compatible devices, that's usually Android phones or portable media players with Android software, they can't be accessed from a file manager at the same time as strawberry as that will block access.What can I do to get this working? I have used fdisk to verify that the OS sees it at /dev/sdc
Thank you Laura (webmistress32)
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@jonas Thank you! I decided to play with this some more on 2 other machines (laptops) just to see if I got any different results. I did kind of decide that yes the device needs to be mounted to be "seen" by Strawberry as even when you double click on it to open, it will mount it. So that problem is solved.
What isn't solved is my result keeps ending up the same: I can't move any files to the device using Strawberry and my playlist.
I have an inter rim solution (ie the sledgehammer solution):
- Create an .m3u file from my playlist
- Use a bash script to read the playlist and move the files in the playlist (with their folders) to a different directory (from my library nfs share to /home/laura/Music)
- Mount the device
- Using Nemo, copy the files from /home.../Music to the device
It's not great, but at least I have workout music on my device which is where I want it.
If you have any other thoughts or ideas to test, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks! Laura
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@jonas I am so sorry! I had to create another account because I mismanaged my password for the original account and I keep asking for a password reset but no email comes ....
AT ANY RATE, you were right I was wrong. It's working PERFECTLY. I started thinking about your comments and I went back in and changed one thing and now its working great. The only thing I made sure I did not do, is mount the SANDISK using the Disks app. I instead just mounted it using Strawberry only.
Now I have sync happening. And I wrote down my sequence so I don't screw it up again
Thanks! Laura
