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.
Main requirement is to be able to download MP3s and put them onto the Zen, it's not a requirement to be able to play them on the computer.
Podcast synchronisation would be a plus but lets try walking before we run. Doing this on windows has turned into a disatrous mess.
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 The help for Gnomad2 setup is very out of date so I'm going to spend a little more time with amarok, it looks a lot slicker anyway.
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.