Is there any way to transfer music to a sony mp3 player from linux?
Most flash-based portable music players with a USB connector support the USB mass-storage standard and will act like a removable disk when plugged in. The only ones that may not are the Microsoft Play4Sure models from iRiver, SanDisk and others. But, even then, it’s often just a matter of a firmware update. Most players will be pre-formatted with a FAT file system. If your Linux installation is less than a few years old, just plug in your Sony MP3 player and see if it automatically mounts it as a removable drive (it should even show that it’s a Sony device). You’ll get a new desktop icon that you can double-click to browse through the contents. Usually there is a specific folder for audio files, so just poke around and look for the music you’ve already transferred to the player. You can simply treat the player like a USB flash drive as long as you put the music in the designated audio folder. If you’d rather use an organizer to manage the transfers, with Linux, there never seems to be
