Re: USB-Plug-In an .mp3-player; "My Computer" sees it; Make DIRED see it?

[David Combs]

In article <34aa5c9b-9d5f-4ab6-87e1-f505149f4156@j14g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
Jason Rumney  <jasonrumney@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jun 30, 2:30 pm, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > WOULDN'T IT BE NICE:  if DIRED could see "outside of disk C:"
>> > to a USB-DEVICE!
>>
>> It can. What made you think it cannot? C-x d f:/
>
>His mp3 player may not be a mass storage device by the sounds of it,
>so instead of appearing in the real file-system it uses MTP or
>proprietary drivers to appear in Windows Explorer alongside other non-
>filesystem items like "My Bluetooth Places", "Mobile Device" and "USB
>Video Device".

indeed: choices:
  auto detect
  mtp
  msc

What I have is a SANSA [sandisk] "clip".  

Question: do MANY brands of mp3-players operate similarly to this?

ie, would it be worth it for someone to hack-together something 
to let emacs work with it?


Thanks,

David