On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:49:46PM +0000, Phil Ashby wrote:
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 The help for Gnomad2 setup is very out of date so I'm going to spend a little more time with amarok, it looks a lot slicker anyway.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.
A little more digging has revealed that I need the very latest gnomad2 for it to work with the Zen 4Gb. Well, more to the point I need libmtp version 0.2.4 and that in turn needs the *development* version of libusb - I think this is going to take a little time!
First problem, I'm not familiar enough with cvs to work out how to download the development version of libusb. All it says on the libusb site is:-
You can check it out with the V1_0_DEVEL tag from CVS.
... but I can't work out the anonymous CVS command to use to specify downloading with that V1_0_DEVEL tag, can anyone help please.