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But, of course, I promise nothing and give no guarantees.ДЄt this point I gave up on MTP for the moment and turned the player back to MSC mode.

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As the command actually just prints a download command, which you can then check before pasting and running it, there should be no risk trying it. Not very elegant, very much ad hoc, but worked for me. Here is the one-liner I used to generate a command line for getting all the MTP mode tracks from the player: But I was still able to download the preloaded content from the player with mtp-tools. Amarok, Rhythmbox or mtpfs didn't see it, though. Now I finally got mtp-detect to see my device. The installation required some tweaking, as it apparently installed some files to non-standard locations and this left me for example with two versions of tool executables. I found a helpful post at the Sandisk forums and followed it as far as it was applicable.

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I proceeded to install the latest libmtp and mtp-tools from source (version 0.3.0). Mtpfs actually uses libmtp to connect to the player, so next I installed libmtp's mtp-tools with 'sudo apt-get install mtp-tools' and ran mtp-detect, which promptly informed me that 'No Devices have been found'. I also reloaded the USB 2 kernel module just to see if it matters. So I disconnected the player, typed sudo apt-get install mtpfs, and set the player to MTP mode. Apparently, it also has playlist support. So next, I tested the MTP support with MTPFS, which is supposed to enable drag'n'drop copy to MTP players from Linux.

Unfortunately, MSC mode does not show the content that had been preloaded to the player. After doing this I discovered that m3u playlists showed up on the player, but they didn't work. I then copied much of my music library to the device. Mp3's worked, the ogg didn't (as expected, of course). I copied a few mp3's and an ogg file to the root folder of the player. (Update: apparently, it at least sometimes suffices to use 'lsusb'.) Sudo rmmod ehci-hcd sleep 1s sudo modprobe ehci-hcd The sleep command gives the player some time to mount and increases the chances of this working slightly, I find: Here's the command I use to get the player recognised. Later I also discovered that if I use a passive USB hub the player seems to mount with no mod-magic from time to time, although not consistently. This remounts the player and copying is much faster. Fortunately I found out that the speed could be improved easily by reloading the kernel module after Fuze has been mounted ('sudo modprobe ehci-hcd'). At least now I knew my player could be mounted, even if at suboptimal speed.

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So I tried this tip for another SanDisk player (removing kernel USB 2.0 driver with 'sudo rmmod ehci-hcd', see also this post) and sure enough the player mounted immediately. The Sansa Fuze claimed it was 'connected', but lsusb didn't show anything new. I connected my player to my Acer 2970Z's USB port and waited. Go figure.ДЄnyway, Sansa Fuze claims to support both of the aforementioned protocols, but only MSC for OSX and Linux. For example, Microsoft apparently uses protocol called MTPZ for Zunes for some reason. Then, of course, there are some variations of the two. Microsoft's newer MTP protocol, designed to implement DRM restrictions to players, usually requires special software. The older MSC protocol tends to work well with different operating system as the device shows up as a mass storage drive for the computer. MP3 players in general use two different protocols to communicate with the computer. Now, rumours are rumours and I believe when I see it, but ogg support would be absolutely fantastic. Also, I had seen some rumours about upcoming Ogg Vorbis support. It also had some very nice features when compared to some of it's competitors, FM radio and voice recording for example. I selected SanDisk player after googling revealed encouraging reports about it's Linux compatibility and, especially, after I discovered that SanDisk explicitly mentions Linux in it's product specs.

These are my notes on getting the Sansa Fuze working with my Acer laptop and Ubuntu Linux. My old player has served me well for a very long time, but it's age is showing and I thought it was finally time to retire it. I've recently purchased a SanDisk Sansa Fuze MP3 player. (Update: see also my posts about the video problems and about the new firmware with Ogg Vorbis support.)

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