Trying to Transfer Music onto Sandisk Clip Sport Plus (SOLVED)

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I'm using Linux Mint 21 XFCE and my new MP3 player won't auto-sync. It will show up in disks, but not Thunar. While searching for a solution, I encountered this thread on the Mint forums: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=360397 When the person was told they needed to format it, I tried doing that as well, only to get an error message and the MP3 player suddenly no longer appearing in Disks until I plug it back in again.
 


Wow people still use these? I just do it on my smartphone! But annyways, Linux was supposed to detect the MP3 player as a storage device. Instead of syncing, why not try to transfer the files manually?
 
My old MP3 player only shows as a storage device, so I just drag and drop
 
Yes they do.. Not everyone has their life ruled by a smartphone!
smartphone-replaced.jpg

You're right, smartphones rule!

The privacy issue does bother me, but that is to be resolved when Linux smartphones mature enough for daily use. In the meantime, some guy at google is going to gawk at the obscene pornography I partake in viewing on a regular basis.

Now please, lets get back to topic.
 
Wow people still use these? I just do it on my smartphone!
lmfao, i tried that line of thinking, but unfortunately a combination of android's security and possibly linux issues convinced me to get one of those Sandisk players for music. Every time i plug my android into my computer, i have to manually allow it access, and then open the file manager again if i want to start transferring files. Also, having a second device saves battery life for more critical activities (like using google maps and looking up information).

I know what you might be thinking: "just get a spotify subscription!", but then what do you do when your lower-quality internet craps out? "Oh, you can just download the music through spotify!", actually it doesn't keep it permanently downloaded when you do that: the last time i had a spotify subscription it would periodically get rid of songs i downloaded...

Unfortunately Sandisk isn't that great either: in order to get Ubuntu to recognize it, i have to have it plugged and on before booting my computer, or else it doesn't recognize it...oh well, all devices have issues, i guess it's all more about choosing which persistent issues you have instead of finding the perfect all-in-one computer...
 
Also make sure the file go-mtpfs and jmtpfs is installed
Code:
sudo apt install go-mtpfs jmtpfs
which is needed to mount Android devices whenever you plug it in and It will expose all storage areas of a device in the mount, and only reads file metadata as needed, making it mount quickly. So when you plug it in your Android Phone ask to connect just say yes.
jmtpfs is a FUSE and libmtp-based filesystem for accessing MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) devices. It was specifically designed for exchanging files between Linux (and Mac OS X) systems and newer Android devices that support MTP but
not USB Mass Storage.
 
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Also make sure the file go-mtpfs and jmtpfs is installed
Code:
sudo apt install go-mtpfs jmtpfs
which is needed to mount Android devices whenever you plug it in and It will expose all storage areas of a device in the mount, and only reads file metadata as needed, making it mount quickly. So when you plug it in your Android Phone ask to connect just say yes.
jmtpfs is a FUSE and libmtp-based filesystem for accessing MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) devices. It was specifically designed for exchanging files between Linux (and Mac OS X) systems and newer Android devices that support MTP but
not USB Mass Storage.

I never mentioned anything about plugging in an Android device, so what does that have to do with the original thread?
 
I never mentioned anything about plugging in an Android device, so what does that have to do with the original thread?
A lot of those devices use the same type MTP as Android so you have to have a MTP type FS (File System) installed in order for it to mount
 
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@Lord Boltar I copied and pasted that command, and it said the version number is currently up to date. The device still isn't be recognized in Thunar. Also, I tried seeing if the MKUSB utility would help, and now it's not being recognized by it either.
 
@Lord Boltar I copied and pasted that command, and it said the version number is currently up to date. The device still isn't be recognized in Thunar. Also, I tried seeing if the MKUSB utility would help, and now it's not being recognized by it either.
Good to see you again
 
Use MSC mode on the Clip+ with Linux systems. Not MTP and not Auto Defect
 

There isn't any usb mode. Also, whenever I have it connected, I can't get it to do anything but charge.
 
Hello, just ran into this.

I had the same problem and found no real resolution except to run both the following two commands (one after the other) at the command line, and that mounted the stupid device so I could move/delete/copy/etc the files from Nemo (and the command line, for that matter). Since I have to do this once a week or so on more than 1 device to update the files, I put these in a simple Bash script, like this:

Bash:
#/bin/bash
sudo parted -l
sudo lsblk -f

It's a stupid fix but it's been working on my system for a few years now and I got tired of wasting time looking for more reasonable solutions on this device.

By the way, in case you or someone else also runs into another SanDisk problem, these devices also have problems with audio books not always playing in the correct order. This problem didn't show up until a family member began downloading audio books from sites like https://librivox.org.

Others appear to have found other fixes that didn't work for me (I don't remember what those were, but I found them in forum discussions on this problem).

What did work for me was finding that the errant SanDisk device only plays in timestamp order (not alphabetically by file name or mp3 title, for example). Some of these audio books have many tens or sometimes a hundred or more files - a real pain to update by hand.

So I wrote another Bash script to change the file time stamps in the correct order. In my case, I just iterate through the files, using the touch command to modify the time stamp, then the sleep command to pause for 61 seconds, then touch the next file, etc. Like this:

Bash:
#/bin/bash
SLEEP_SECONDS="61"

for x in * ; do
  echo " .. Updating modified timestamp for $x, and then waiting $SLEEP_SECONDS seconds to do the next one.."
  sleep $SLEEP_SECONDS
  touch $x
done

Can I equate "stupid" and "SanDisk" together again in this post? I use a smartphone and other devices for podcasts, etc., but sometimes a little device like the SanDisk was a better fit for something I or someone else in the family was doing (e.g., I use mine for listening to audio books in bed to fall asleep. MIL uses hers on the train to listen to old tv show audio when traveling). It's nice to have something that doesn't break the bank if stolen, lost, or damaged, and I've purchased more than a dozen of these kinds of devices over many years for family use.

However, struggling with the stupid time stamp problem broke me. I've gotten so disgusted with how little SanDisk has cared to fix such stupid problems even after people have been complaining about them for years on SanDisk's own forums that I'm no longer replacing these devices for myself or family members when they do finally die.
 
Hello, just ran into this.

I had the same problem and found no real resolution except to run both the following two commands (one after the other) at the command line, and that mounted the stupid device so I could move/delete/copy/etc the files from Nemo (and the command line, for that matter). Since I have to do this once a week or so on more than 1 device to update the files, I put these in a simple Bash script, like this:

Bash:
#/bin/bash
sudo parted -l
sudo lsblk -f

It's a stupid fix but it's been working on my system for a few years now and I got tired of wasting time looking for more reasonable solutions on this device.

By the way, in case you or someone else also runs into another SanDisk problem, these devices also have problems with audio books not always playing in the correct order. This problem didn't show up until a family member began downloading audio books from sites like https://librivox.org.

Others appear to have found other fixes that didn't work for me (I don't remember what those were, but I found them in forum discussions on this problem).

What did work for me was finding that the errant SanDisk device only plays in timestamp order (not alphabetically by file name or mp3 title, for example). Some of these audio books have many tens or sometimes a hundred or more files - a real pain to update by hand.

So I wrote another Bash script to change the file time stamps in the correct order. In my case, I just iterate through the files, using the touch command to modify the time stamp, then the sleep command to pause for 61 seconds, then touch the next file, etc. Like this:

Bash:
#/bin/bash
SLEEP_SECONDS="61"

for x in * ; do
  echo " .. Updating modified timestamp for $x, and then waiting $SLEEP_SECONDS seconds to do the next one.."
  sleep $SLEEP_SECONDS
  touch $x
done

Can I equate "stupid" and "SanDisk" together again in this post? I use a smartphone and other devices for podcasts, etc., but sometimes a little device like the SanDisk was a better fit for something I or someone else in the family was doing (e.g., I use mine for listening to audio books in bed to fall asleep. MIL uses hers on the train to listen to old tv show audio when traveling). It's nice to have something that doesn't break the bank if stolen, lost, or damaged, and I've purchased more than a dozen of these kinds of devices over many years for family use.

However, struggling with the stupid time stamp problem broke me. I've gotten so disgusted with how little SanDisk has cared to fix such stupid problems even after people have been complaining about them for years on SanDisk's own forums that I'm no longer replacing these devices for myself or family members when they do finally die.

I LOVE YOU!!! :D
After typing in those first commands, I FINALLY got the device to come up and allow me to transfer music onto it! After plugging it in again, I realized I'll have to type them in again every time I want to transfer more music, which is a little annoying, but I can live with it.
 

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