On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:04 +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:17:43AM +0000, Phil Ashby wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:02 +0000, Chris G wrote:
What do the panel recommend to use with a Creative Zen MP3 player.
If you use GNOME: Gnomad2 (http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/), Rhythmbox (http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/ the de-facto Gnome music player), if you use KDE: Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/ the de-facto KDE music player); or any of the various tools and GUIs that use libmtp (http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=downstream)
Neither Gnomad2 nor amarok recognises the Zen player automatically. The help for Gnomad2 setup is very out of date so I'm going to spend a little more time with amarok, it looks a lot slicker anyway.
Oh. That's odd since all the libmtp based tools worked first time with my son's Creative Zen Touch 20GB player (which has V2.x MTP firmware). Perhaps your player has V1.x PDE firmware (thus you need libnjb based tools: http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/). Gnomad2 should still work with such a device though.
You should find one or two of these in any distribution. I rather like the idea of MTPFS (but then I'm a sicko!).
They're both available for Fedora 7 and have both installed without any issues but, as I said, neither sees the Zen automatically.
MTPFS seems to me the obvious way to go, I quite agree with you. I'm not sure that the Zen is MTP though.
See above, perhaps you have an older PDE device, or a shiny new, locked to Windows one (just an ugly rumor AFAIK)?
Phil.