Indeed, there were no mp3 files on the SD card image. I was expecting
rather than a "Searching SD card ..." message. (I'm quite new to this
environment and probably a bit overly cautious.)
Thanks for the tip on using "adb shell". That seems to be a promising
approach to setting up a directory structure in the SD card image.
> Yeah, that application isn't very polished...anyways that probably means that
> there are no mp3 files on the SD card...what do you get when you "adb shell"
> and then "ls /sdcard" ?
> --
> Zach Hobbs
> HelloAndroid.com
> Android OS news, tutorials, downloads
> On Monday 04 February 2008 19:44:52 greg wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip Zach. I didn't realize adb could copy files to the
> > SD card image.
> > Hoping to see something work before I spent a lot of time setting up
> > an extensive SD card image, I tried using your MusicDroid application
> > and your instructions on how to setup the SD card image and use adb to
> > push an mp3 file to it.
> > A couple seemingly strange (to me just getting used to Android) things
> > happened:
> > -- When I installed MusicDroid, the command line response was "435 KB/
> > s <0 bytes in 410753.000s>".
> > -- MusicDroid displayed only "Searching SD card..." (even when I came
> > back from jogging it was still searching ... and no, I'm not a fast
> > jogger :*)
> > - Greg
> > On Feb 4, 10:51 am, Zach Hobbs <ho...@helloandroid.com> wrote:
> > > Looks like mtools for windows:http://www.frontiernet.net/~fys/mtools.htm
> > > Also, you can just use "adb push file /sdcard" when the emulator is
> > > running to copy files to the SD card. This tutorial may help
> > > also:http://www.helloandroid.com/node/134?page=0%2C1
> > > --
> > > Zach Hobbs
> > > HelloAndroid.com
> > > Android OS news, tutorials, downloads
> > > On Monday 04 February 2008 10:34:16 greg wrote:
> > > > I'd like to setup the emulation of an SD card that has a bunch of
> > > > reference photographs and recordings stored on it.
> > > > In the documentation at
> > > > http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html#sdcard
> > > > the suggestion is to use the mtools utility's mcopy to copy files into
> > > > the SD card image created by mksdcard. However, mtools is not
> > > > included in the Android SDK and it is not clear whether the mtools
> > > > download at
> > > > http://directory.fsf.org/project/mtools/
> > > > is intended to run under Windows OS (XP). So, where does one download
> > > > the mtools utility for Windows?
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Greg
