USB-Plug-In an .mp3-player; "My Computer" sees it; Make DIRED see it?

USB-Plug-In an .mp3-player; "My Computer" sees it; Make DIRED see it?

[David Combs]

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE:  if DIRED could see "outside of disk C:" to a USB-DEVICE!

Man, you could then do away with having to learn ANY M$ software!  WHOPEE!



Then you could download .mp3-files, and then, via dired, upload
them directly into the mp3-player!

(Oh, you'd also want to be able to clear out
the "title" property of an .mp3-file -- so that if
you rename the mp3-FILE, the mp3-player will use THAT
NEW NAME as its name WITHIN the player.

But, as I discovered the hard way, if there is
something in there, eg a copy of the ORIGINAL filename,
then the player will use THAT name instead, making
your renaming of the FILE-name have no effect (within
the mp3-player).


Thanks, 

David

RE: USB-Plug-In an .mp3-player; "My Computer" sees it; Make DIRED see it?

[Drew Adams]

> WOULDN'T IT BE NICE:  if DIRED could see "outside of disk C:" 
> to a USB-DEVICE!

It can. What made you think it cannot? C-x d f:/

Re: USB-Plug-In an .mp3-player; "My Computer" sees it; Make DIRED see it?

[Jason Rumney]

On Jun 30, 2:30 pm, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > WOULDN'T IT BE NICE:  if DIRED could see "outside of disk C:"
> > to a USB-DEVICE!
>
> It can. What made you think it cannot? C-x d f:/

His mp3 player may not be a mass storage device by the sounds of it,
so instead of appearing in the real file-system it uses MTP or
proprietary drivers to appear in Windows Explorer alongside other non-
filesystem items like "My Bluetooth Places", "Mobile Device" and "USB
Video Device".

Re: USB-Plug-In an .mp3-player; "My Computer" sees it; Make DIRED see it?

[David Combs]

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In article <34aa5c9b-9d5f-4ab6-87e1-f505149f4156@j14g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
Jason Rumney  <jasonrumney@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jun 30, 2:30 pm, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > WOULDN'T IT BE NICE:  if DIRED could see "outside of disk C:"
>> > to a USB-DEVICE!
>>
>> It can. What made you think it cannot? C-x d f:/
>
>His mp3 player may not be a mass storage device by the sounds of it,
>so instead of appearing in the real file-system it uses MTP or
>proprietary drivers to appear in Windows Explorer alongside other non-
>filesystem items like "My Bluetooth Places", "Mobile Device" and "USB
>Video Device".

indeed: choices:
  auto detect
  mtp
  msc

What I have is a SANSA [sandisk] "clip".  

Question: do MANY brands of mp3-players operate similarly to this?

ie, would it be worth it for someone to hack-together something 
to let emacs work with it?


Thanks,

David

Re: USB-Plug-In an .mp3-player; "My Computer" sees it; Make DIRED see it?

[Jason Rumney]

On Jul 1, 1:15 am, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

>   auto detect
>   mtp
>   msc

If I'm not mistaken, msc stands for Mass Storage Class, and will
result in your device being assigned a drive letter so Emacs can
access it.