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i cant get music on to my mp3 player

Asked by jonathan

i have a phillips go gear mp3 player and i cant figure out how to take the music that i have ripped from a cd and put it onto my mp3 player please when responding use plain english i dont understand alot of technical lingo. I am using rhythm box to manage my music files i dont know what software i need i dont know how to convert files either.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you have the device attatched and give the output of:

sudo fdisk -l; mount

Thanks

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jonathan (jonac510) said : 		#2

Can you have the device attatched and give the output of:

sudo fdisk -l; mount

Thanks

 i am not sure what this means sorry i am no computer wiz

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ubuntu doesn't expect you to be.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Copy the command, paste it in the terminal, press enter, copy the output and paste here as an update

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jonathan (jonac510) said : 		#4

sudo fdisk -l; mount

Disk /dev/sda: 3791 MB, 3791241216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 460 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x03e56266

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 433 3478041 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 434 460 216877+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 434 460 216846 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sdb: 7919 MB, 7919894528 bytes
208 heads, 56 sectors/track, 166 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 11648 * 4096 = 47710208 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 166 7734252 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/home/jon/.Private on /home/jon type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=c9a5fdf7d17960f6,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=9c72f3dc07f0b5a5,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/jon/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jon)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/4017-8193 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)

I have no clue what all this means but here is what it did

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Ok then you can access the player from /media/4017-8193

if you run:

ln -s /media/4017-8193 ~/mp3\ player

You can access it easier from your home folder from the "mp3 player" folder youjust made with the above command

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jonathan (jonac510) said : 		#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.