Amarok and Creative Zen V mp3 players

[manchicken]

On Monday 07 May 2007 13:44:19 Richard Hambleton wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Donald Allwright <donald_allwright at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I've been trying for ages to get my Creative Zen V recognised in some
> > way or other by my Kubuntu system, so far without success. I've added
> > the following lines to /etc/udev/45-libnjb.rules:
> >
> > # Creative Zen V
> >  SYSFS{idVendor}=="041e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="4150", GROUP="plugdev",
> > MODE="0660"
> > # Creative Zen V Plus
> >  SYSFS{idVendor}=="041e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="4152", GROUP="plugdev",
> > MODE="0660"
> >
> > which should allow the device to be recognised. It does seem to
> > recognise the device in some way, as when I plug it in it thinks it's a
> > digital camera and asks me if I want to open it. When I select this
> > option, it opens a konqueror tab but then pops up a message:
> > "The process for the camera://usb:004,013 protocol died unexpectedly."
> >
> > When attempting to autodetect it with Amarok, I get a message:
> > "No new media devices were found. If you feel this is an error, ensure
> > that the DBUS and HAL daemons are running and KDE was built with
> > support for them. You can test this by running "dcop kded mediamanager
> > fullList" in a Konsole window.". This is the version of Amarok from
> > medibuntu that supports the MTP protocol.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is a udev configuration issue or something else.
> > Looking on the ubuntu forums suggests that this is what I need to get
> > udev to detect it, but how do I get Amarok to be able to see it? Any
> > suggestions?
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> You may want to try downloading Gnomad2. (http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/)
> It is available in the repositories.
>
> I couldn't get Amarok to see my Creative Zen Xtra.  Then I installed
> Gnomad.  Gnomad was able to connect to the device without issue.
> Oddly, since installing Gnomad, Amarok can now connect to the device
> too.
>
> Richard

What libraries did you also install in the process of installing Gnomad2?

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