@rumtscho it looks like scanimage can do what you want, with --batch-prompt

or a little bit of shell scripting, it is a CLI program

@derobert OK. I was thinking of trying to write a script which uses sane, but didn't find a easy way to use sane without a GUI and decided that just scanning from the printer UI will save me time.

Lol, I am scanning to my mp3 player right now

forgot that the konsole in dolphin always points to the directory open above :)

gscan2pdf sounds like it might work

but it didn't prompt me for anything. Must read the docu.

@derobert I tried it, same behavior as XSane. Has a "multipage option" but doesn't prompt.

I see what you mean, weird it doesn't give you a chance to put the second page in

It would almost make sense for scanning an unbound book fed through the feeding device - but in Xsane, there is an ADF option separately from the Flatbed option I chose.

Argh I am going crazy with this mp3 player

First it won't find the music I copied onto it

The rest of the music seems to be present twice

and now I decided to delete everything from it

it still finds 79 songs

maybe I should install that open source firmware everybody seems to like, maybe it works better.

LOL

I'm formatting it now from its own interface, let's see if it formatted the card too

No, it didn't. It only removed the 6 songs which came pre-installed which I couldn't find anywhere in the visible or hidden folders to remove.

It is dumb that I don't have a reader for the miniSD cards, so I have to go through the mp3 itself to change the music on the card.

does it just work in usb storage mode? If so, it shouldn't be much different than using a reader

Yes, it works in storage mode. But I noticed what must have happened

It seems like I have sent some music to trash instead of deleting it

and the internal software of the player doesn't know that .Trash-1000 is a hidden folder.

yeah, probably it doesn't

Windows can't put stuff in the recycle bin on removable drives AFAIK, so they probably don't realize such a thing can exist

But for some reason, I can't seem to delete its contents.

Wait, why does it say "read-only file system"? It wasn't read only a minute ago

dmesg may tell you why

if it hits a filesystem error, it might remount readonly

@derobert ah yes, I've had that happen before with SD cards.

> 52574.828910] FAT-fs (sdg1): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)

well, make sure to unmount it first

and spell /dev correctly, that helps too

@derobert that's exactly what I noticed just now :)

scanimage --batch --batch-prompt --source Flatbed seems to do what you want, thought it leaves a bunch of pnm files, which you'll need to process yourself. I see a pct-scanner-scripts package which may automate that

@derobert Thank you, I will try that.

Looks like I broke the card completely. The mp3 player can't read it now, hangs at around 95%. And I can't use the mp3 player as anything - not even as a card mounting device - while it is trying to read a card :(

that's annoying, can it be forced to reformat the card somehow?

No, once I stick in the card, it tries to read it. And when it hits that place, it becomes unresponsive and needs a hard reset.

If I start it without the card, connect it to the PC and stick the card in, it doesn't read the card, but I can't mount it from the PC either.

If I start it with the card, it tries to read it and hangs.

Looks like I'll need a real card reader after all.

At least 8 GB of internal memory are enough for more music than I can listen to in one day.

Or I could still install Rockbox and see if it can read and/or format the card without hanging.

yeah, it may be able to

@rumtscho btw, I put a more complete answer on Superuser

Hmm. After I started the player under Rockbox, it looked OK. Then I stuck the card in, and it said * PANIC*

Nice :-(

@derobert I might have gotten it to work

at least I can read the card again

Now I have to see if I can delete the old files and write new ones on it

@rumtscho Its instructions for you to panic helped?

@derobert It had some more text in the error message beside the panic. Googling them led me to threads not connected to my problem at all :(

But then I connected it to USB without the card, and stuck the card into it after it was in USB mode. This way, I could read the card from the computer and run fsck on it.

It didn't work with the original firmware, but it seems that rockbox is more sensible about it.

But for some reason I can't delete a certain file.

Lol, our recent spam is indeed very low quality.

We got 14 new spam comments in the last 24 hours.

One of them says "An accurate chum is a who exactly overlooks your entire disappointments and can handle your entire success"

It almost makes sense. I could spend the night pondering on it if I was at above 1.5 promille.

@rumtscho yes, you need to fsck that, or, if fsck won't fix it, mkfs it

And then we have somebody who is advertising an uggs outlet store

I wouldn't accept uggs if they paid me for them, and they are trying to sell them at an outlet.

@derobert thank you, I think it worked. Right now I am in the process of copying 5.5 GB worth of music onto the card. The average speed is below 5 MiB/s.

yeah, write speeds on flash can be pretty bad, and who knows about the device

@derobert The miniSDs are normally extremely slow.

I think they are planning newer generations now that smartphones can install apps on them, but the old ones are much slower than other types of flash. They are all optimised for minimal power usage, not for speed.

It is already copying Slayer, so I hope I have at least 2/3 done.

Yes, everything works

And I also noticed that with Rockbox, I can set the volume much louder than what was possible with the old firmware

It was so silent, I sometimes couldn't hear the music if standing at a busy street or some other loud environment. Now it can go very loud, I didn't check exactly how loud but it seemed to be capable of going much higher than what I tried before it got unpleasant.

@rumtscho hmmm, what you need are a pair of ER-6 earphones, then you can listen to it on a quiet setting, even next to a busy street.

@rumtscho or hf5, I guess that's the current model.