Well I've got Gnomad2 working with the Zen now.
I found that the latest Gnomad2 and the libraries required to support the Zen's MTP were in the Fedora updates-testing repository so all I had to to was add that to yum's repositories temporarily and it all installed without problems.
Gnomad2 can now see the Zen and transfer MP3 files to it. It's a bit crude and simple but one huge amount easier to understand than the heap of rubbish that got installed on Windows.
Chris G wrote:
Well I've got Gnomad2 working with the Zen now.
I got a Creative Zen (4Gb) for my birthday before Christmas.
Seems to work Debian Sid's gnomad2/libmtp/etc. Haven't tried with Etch yet or anything more vintage.
I had an objection to using a specialist GUI for transfering files to what is essentially a disk, so I packaged MTPfs (a FUSE filesystem for libmtp) for Debian. It's currently with my sponsor awaiting upload.
(Dispite the bug report[0], I'm actually packaging the latest SVN version to fix some memory leaks.)
MPTfs is okay, but libmtp itself does not support renaming of items, so MTPfs cannot the rename(2) syscall. This causes some problems inside Nautilus and other graphical tools who like to create an "New Directory" dir and then offer to rename it to something else, which--of course--fails.
Regards,
/Lamby
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/457236
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:48:05PM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
Chris G wrote:
Well I've got Gnomad2 working with the Zen now.
I got a Creative Zen (4Gb) for my birthday before Christmas.
Seems to work Debian Sid's gnomad2/libmtp/etc. Haven't tried with Etch yet or anything more vintage.
I had an objection to using a specialist GUI for transfering files to what is essentially a disk, so I packaged MTPfs (a FUSE filesystem for libmtp) for Debian. It's currently with my sponsor awaiting upload.
Yes, that's the obvious way to do it isn't it.
It allows the use of other tools for automating the downloads etc. and you can just tell them to put the result in the MP3 player if it's there or somewhere else if it's not.
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