Re: Sansa clip music player is shown empty.

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:55:19AM -0000, atar wrote:
> Hi there!!
> 
> I've a SanDisk Sansa MP3 music player which I've put into it songs
> using Win-XP, but when I've mounted it in Debian Wheezy, all the
> songs are strangely disappeared. the interesting thing is although
> they're disappeared, the df command still show that the player is
> 69% used, so where all the files have gone?
> 
Mine behaves like that too, if you use MTP to transfer music to it
(which XP may have done).  Those songs don't show up anywhere in a
directory listing when you mount the player using MSC -- at least I
haven't been able to find their location.  

Solution would be to delete the songs using XP, then if you want
re-transfer them in XP using Windows Explorer rather than Windows Media
Player.  Or, leave the songs as is and try using Rhythmbox or another
Linux player that supports MTP.

Note that the Sansa Clip+ (the one I have) is set to automatically
select either MTP or MSC, but you can force one or the other in the
player's settings menu.

-Rob