14.2 no longer recognizes my mp3 player. How do I change that?

For years, I've used an mp3 player for "workout" music, and recently decided to update its playlist. At one time I did this frequently enough that I have bash scripts that used to synchronize a playlist on my laptop to the mp3 player. The key phrase being "used to". I no longer seem to be able to mount the built in usb drive to do the copying.

I don't know when this changed. I know that I've upgraded the kernel a couple of times since I last tried.

I'm convinced there must have be a change to some configuration file (udev or udisk?) that needs adjusting, but I really have no idea which file or what to change.

Below, is a snippet from /var/log/messages where I plug in the mp3 player

Code:Aug 5 11:05:49 igloo kernel: [ 2906.089051] usb 3-1.5.4.1: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.317238] usb 3-1.5.4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0dab, idProduct=4302
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.317249] usb 3-1.5.4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.317255] usb 3-1.5.4.1: Product: YMDC-507X UMS DEVICE
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.317261] usb 3-1.5.4.1: Manufacturer: YOUNTEL CO.LTD.
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.317266] usb 3-1.5.4.1: SerialNumber: 000100EBF971C198
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 9: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.5/3-1.5.4/3-1.5.4.1"
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 9 was not an MTP device
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.344808] usb-storage 3-1.5.4.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.345110] scsi host8: usb-storage 3-1.5.4.1:1.0
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.345381] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Aug 5 11:05:50 igloo kernel: [ 2906.346797] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
Aug 5 11:05:51 igloo kernel: [ 2907.348502] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access CCRANE CCWitness+ 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Aug 5 11:05:51 igloo kernel: [ 2907.349539] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Aug 5 11:05:51 igloo kernel: [ 2907.351023] scsi 8:0:0:1: Direct-Access CCRANE CCWitness+ 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Aug 5 11:05:51 igloo kernel: [ 2907.352136] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Aug 5 11:05:51 igloo kernel: [ 2907.352859] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 3921919 512-byte logical blocks: (2.01 GB/1.87 GiB)
Aug 5 11:06:21 igloo kernel: [ 2937.719500] usb 3-1.5.4.1: reset high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
Aug 5 11:06:21 igloo kernel: [ 2937.834554] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] 15564800 512-byte logical blocks: (7.97 GB/7.42 GiB)
Aug 5 11:06:21 igloo kernel: [ 2937.835167] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Aug 5 11:06:21 igloo kernel: [ 2937.835782] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 5 11:06:52 igloo kernel: [ 2968.822716] usb 3-1.5.4.1: reset high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
Aug 5 11:06:52 igloo kernel: [ 2968.951563] sdc: sdc1
Aug 5 11:07:23 igloo kernel: [ 2999.796028] usb 3-1.5.4.1: reset high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
Aug 5 11:07:54 igloo kernel: [ 3030.772256] usb 3-1.5.4.1: reset high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pciIn case you're wondering the "sdc" part is because the mp3 player has a SD card slot and it currently is occupied. In a separate experiment, I removed the SD card and plugged it in directly to my laptop and it mounts fine. Unfortunately, the playlist I want to update pertains to the "sdb" part.

Can someone point me to where/what I need to change to get this to work again? Thanks in advance.