Downloading CD Music onto a Sandisk Sansa M240 MP3 player

[kelforn]

Being that I'm a Linux NOOB and coming from the Windows environment I need to know how to rip music off the music cd's save them onto the hard drive and download them into this player "Linux Debian" style.

I've tried with Amarok and either I don't know something or whatnot, it just isn't working.

I have gone through using Google and for me no help.

So if someone can direct me on what to do I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks so much!

[Vergil83]

There are several good cd ripping programs. I have used grip and sound juicer and both work well. As for getting the music on the mp3 player, how do you use it in windows? Does windows treat it just like a generic usb device (like an usb drive) or does it do some special program?

[kelforn]

Windows Media Player would couple with the Sandisk player so all I would have to do is make a playlist derived by my already saved ripped cd music on the hard drive and click on "sync" - that's it.

Or you could from WMP be able to go to a file containing that music then drop the music down into a play list and click on sync.

I had a all-in-one place to do all this.

This is why I really need some sought of direction with doing this in Linux.

I'm using Debian (I wonder if should've chose a different distro as a noob).
I'm able to figure everything else out on the most part except downloading software from outside sources (tarballs) and this.

[Vergil83]

It looks like that mp3 player can be treated just as a usb device. If you want to try to use it like you do in windows (using playlists and such) you might try downloading this this script. You can install it using the ScriptManager . It is supposed to replicate that ability in amarok.

I'm able to figure everything else out on the most part except downloading software from outside sources (tarballs) and this.

What software are you downloading as tarballs? It is easier just to use apt-get or synaptic or kpackage

[kelforn]

What software are you downloading as tarballs? It is easier just to use apt-get or synaptic or kpackage

Packages that don't exist in the repositories.

When I try apt-get install (whatever) for an upgraded software for instance that Debian doesn't have.

[Vergil83]

Packages that don't exist in the repositories.

When I try apt-get install (whatever) for an upgraded software for instance that Debian doesn't have.

To install software from tar take a look at http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/344054-post2.html You will need the build-essential for sure