<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:44 AM, mischa falkenburg <<a href="mailto:because_productions@myfairpoint.net">because_productions@myfairpoint.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello All, Today's dilemma is WHY doesn't a COBY MPC854 show up either on the Desktop or on the Places list? I have a Creative MuVo that shows every time I plug it into the cable. I'm running 9.04, any ideas? Thanks, Mischa </blockquote></div> You Caps Lock is on ;-) Anyway, could it be that the MP3-player has multiple modes? I'm not sure how to describe it but my sister's MP3-player (a Sansa e200 IIRC) has both a USB mode and some weird music mode or something that did just about the same as USB but only displayed the music when you connected it to a Windows computer. On Ubuntu, however, it didn't work, so you might want to check if it's using USB mode. Also, could you open Applications->Accessories->Terminal, type "lsusb", press Enter and send the output? Regards, -- Vincent