Chris G cl@isbd.net 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 all you want to do is synchronise then I'd recommend Gnomad2. I have also used Neutrino, but that can be flakey in my experience.
However, I've stopped using the Zen because it doesn't support ogg vorbis. Picky, I know.
Mick
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:06:02PM +0000, mbm wrote:
Chris G cl@isbd.net 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 all you want to do is synchronise then I'd recommend Gnomad2. I have also used Neutrino, but that can be flakey in my experience.
OK, thanks, it seems that Gnomad2 is the preferred application so maybe I'll go for it. However I need to get the development version of libusb and then libmtp 0.2.4 installed for anything to work with the Zen 4Gb.
I've now managed to download the development version of libusb but I can't see how to build it as there is no 'configure' with it, just a configure.in and a few other possibly related files, can anyone tell me how to build it?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:16:10PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:06:02PM +0000, mbm wrote:
Chris G cl@isbd.net 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 all you want to do is synchronise then I'd recommend Gnomad2. I have also used Neutrino, but that can be flakey in my experience.
OK, thanks, it seems that Gnomad2 is the preferred application so maybe I'll go for it. However I need to get the development version of libusb and then libmtp 0.2.4 installed for anything to work with the Zen 4Gb.
I've now managed to download the development version of libusb but I can't see how to build it as there is no 'configure' with it, just a configure.in and a few other possibly related files, can anyone tell me how to build it?
It's OK, I found what I need, you run autogen.sh and it creates the configure script and then runs it. So far so good. However there's a compile error from make - as that's more my line I can probably either fix that myself or find what's wrong from the developers.
On 03 Jan 14:24, Chris G wrote:
It's OK, I found what I need, you run autogen.sh and it creates the configure script and then runs it. So far so good. However there's a compile error from make - as that's more my line I can probably either fix that myself or find what's wrong from the developers.
Or you could use the magical google tool... and then you'll find out: http://osdir.com/ml/lib.libusb.devel.general/2006-05/msg00005.html
Once you've found that out, you'll do something sensible like go look for the svn repository... you might find that somewhere like: https://libusb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/libusb
You'll then probably want to know where the development version is... Now, this being svn, you're probably going to want the trunk, so we go... svn co https://libusb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/libusb/trunk libusb-trunk
When you've got that, you'll obviously then read the COMPILE.SVN file, which will tell you to do: ./autogen.sh make
And it'll build you a nice library - this is however version 0.1.13beta, which is what the current trunk is - it's the most upto date branch though, with activity just 5 months ago!
Hope that helps,
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:24:26PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:16:10PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:06:02PM +0000, mbm wrote:
Chris G cl@isbd.net 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 all you want to do is synchronise then I'd recommend Gnomad2. I have also used Neutrino, but that can be flakey in my experience.
OK, thanks, it seems that Gnomad2 is the preferred application so maybe I'll go for it. However I need to get the development version of libusb and then libmtp 0.2.4 installed for anything to work with the Zen 4Gb.
I've now managed to download the development version of libusb but I can't see how to build it as there is no 'configure' with it, just a configure.in and a few other possibly related files, can anyone tell me how to build it?
It's OK, I found what I need, you run autogen.sh and it creates the configure script and then runs it. So far so good. However there's a compile error from make - as that's more my line I can probably either fix that myself or find what's wrong from the developers.
It's all OK and easier than the way I was going. libmtp 0.2.4 (and the latest gnomad2, amarok, etc.) are all in the fedora updates-testing repository. So all I actually needed to do was add that repository to my normal list and install gnomad2 version 2.9 and everything else needed gets drageed in with it.
OK, it's slightly "bleeding edge" but nowhere near as messy as trying to build from downloaeded bits and pieces as I was.
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