In Amarok, I have the option of mounting a device to act as my portable
media player, and transfer songs to and from it from within the Amarok
interface.
I use my Palm Tungsten E as my MP3 player, and store my songs on an SD
card. Because transferring songs to the card via the Palm itself is
brutally slow, I have a seperate SD card reader that plugs into a USB
port.
When I plug a card into my USB card reader, it pops up on the Desktop,
and I can move files from it without any problem from within Nautilus.
So far so good.

However, it\'s a little awkward to have to move to and from the Amarok
interface to Nautilus in order to find songs among my directories, while
I\'m listening to tracks to decide which ones I want to have on my card.
Far better to be able to drag and drop entirely within Amarok.

When I select to configure my device within Amarok, it gives me a
little window with two fields. One is to input a \"mount command\", and
the other is to input an \"unmount command\". I assume this means to input
a mount command like I would at the command line interface.

And that brings me to my questions:
What would be the appropriate command to mount my SD card from within
Amarok?
And will attempting to mount it from within the application conflict
with the fact that it automounted from within the OS?
If so, can I get around this?

Many thanks for any advice.

Have you looked on the transfer_to_media_device script shipped with amaroK? Although I have not used it so far, this should do the job.

Thank you for suggesting that script. It looks promising.

However, it says I need \"kreadconfig\". I have no idea what that is, so I\'m not sure where to start looking. Is it a package? An Amarok setting?

kreadconfig is part of kdebase, try installing the kdebase package provided by your distro. Support for regular USB devices is planned, but currently the media device browser only works with ipods.