[ale] MP3 player busted?

[Warren Myers]

My *guess* is that mplayer may still have an open handle to the file.

I forget the call to lsof off the top of my head, but does that indicate
mplayer holding anything open on the mp3 player?

-WMM

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:45, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> I've got a "Chinese MP3 player" off eBay last year and it seemed to work
> fine.  I'm having an interesting problem now but I'm not sure if it is
> Linux related or MP3 player related.
>
> I can copy a mp3 to it.  I can then play that mp3.  I can play mp3s from
> it but if I umount it and remount it the mp3 that I just copied is
> corrupted.
>
> $ mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
> $ cp /tmp/music.mp3 /mnt
> $ sync
> $ mplayer /mnt/music.mp3 # This works
> $ umount /mnt
> $ mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
> $ mplayer /mnt/music.mp3 # Fails it is corrupt
>
>
>
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