Downloading music with Linux

[lizwizz]

I have a computer with Linux and am unable to work out how to download music onto an MP3. I'm not very technically minded, but a friend of mine who downloads music a lot also can't work out how to do it on my computer. Is there a solution or do I have to buy a new computer!

[fo3nix]

You mean get music from your computer onto a mp3 player? You should just be able to plug your mp3 player in, and copy the files across from wherever you keep them on your computer.

What distro are you using?

[lizwizz]

Whats a distro? I did say I'm not very technically minded!

[fo3nix]

Sorry.

Linux is the name of the kernel that is usually used to run the GNU system, so the operating system that you're describing should be called GNU/Linux, but many people (yourself included, and many experts) call it Linux anyway.

It's free software, so anyone can package the different parts of it in different combinations as they like, so there are different distributions of GNU/Linux. By this I mean that some may include web browsers and email readers, while other simples distributions ('distros') may just give you the bare system.

Examples of distro names are Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Debian, etc.

If you're running a fairly recent version of any of these, then it should have USB support. Technically this depends largely on what Linux kernel you're running, but that's a technicality.

Have you tried just plugging it into a spare USB port on your computer?

[lizwizz]

Thanks fo3nix. I'm not dure what distro i am using, unless its Mozilla Firefox. Yes I've tried plugging in to a USB port with no joy. I can't even download my own CDs if I put them in. I put them into the HDD but nothing comes up on the screen and I can't find anything that says D drive. I'm still flummoxed!