Accessing a USB Device?

[Fazer]

Stephen Horne <$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$@$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.co.uk> wrote in message news:<19ukovg1un8hmv1l46idn82co1jcgeln8i at 4ax.com>...
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:09:53 +1000 (EST), Andrew MacIntyre
> <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 11 Oct 2003, Fazer wrote:
> >
> >> I have a MP3 and I want to access the songs in them.  I was wondering
> >> if Python could help me do that.  I understand that this can be done
> >> using Linux by mountig it as a file system, but I am not on Linux and
> >> this is mainly for a Windows platform.  Can anyone shed some light?
> >
> >Just plug the thing in and access it as a removable drive (which is all
> >mounting it as a filesystem really is).  You should be able to view the
> >MP3s with Windows Explorer
> 
> That depends on how the PC connectivity for the MP3 player works.
> Mine, for one, doesn't work that way. It provides an application which
> looks a bit like explorer, but you don't get a drive letter - you just
> get two listview panes in the application listing the MP3s in the
> built-in flash and the extension flash of the device.

That's exactly right.  I hoped that I could mount it as a drive, but I
can't.  However, in Linux, is it possible to mount such a MP3 Player
as a mountable drive?