Tools to work with a Sansa

[Richard England]

Richard England wrote:
> Steve Snyder wrote:
>> On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:09:55 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>  
>>> I just got a Sansa 4Gb Connect MP3.  This is audio and video.
>>>
>>> I am running FC10 and Gnome on an Asus 701.
>>>
>>> I plug the sansa in with its special USB cable and I show a USB
>>> device but it is not accessable.
>>>     
>>
>> The Sansa devices can be configured in 2 USB modes.  By default they 
>> are configured such that they appear to be a media device to MS 
>> Windows.  You want the other mode, it which the Sansa appears to be a 
>> storage device.  That's configured in the Sansa's Settings section.
>>
>>  
>>> I have tried to add the Disk Mounter tool to the panel, but when I
>>> click on add, nothing happens.
>>>
>>> So perhaps multiple things are going wrong here.
>>>
>>> But what tool would I use to move music, pics, and videos to the
>>> Sansa?
>>>     
>>
>> When I plug in my Sansa, I am informed (on my KDE desktop) that a new 
>> device has been plugged in.  I opt to mount that device.  Then it is 
>> a simple matter to copy files to /media/SANSA_CLIP/PODCASTS/ (or 
>> whatever).  When the Sansa is disconnected it automatically 
>> re-indexes the files stored on it.  Then they are available via the 
>> on-screen menu selection.
>>
>> FYI, the Sansa firmware is updated the same way: just copy the 
>> firmware file to the root of the device's filesystem.  No need for 
>> Sandisk's Win32 application.
>>
>>   
> Steve,
> Where do you find the firmware updates that are _not_ in the form or a 
> *.exe file?
>
> Or is there some way to break the components out of the *.exe?
>
> Thanks,
> ~~R
>
To answer myself, see:

http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=clip&thread.id=10534

in case the next person needs it.  Instructions and code worked 
perfectly for a new Sansa Clip.  (and it now handles FLAC and OGG)

~~R