Amarok and Creative Zen V mp3 players

[manchicken]

On Monday 07 May 2007 18:42:45 Richard Hambleton wrote:
> On 5/7/07, manchicken <manchicken at notsosoft.net> wrote:
> > 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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> I installed it using adept.  I didn't check what packages were
> installed alongside.  I'm not at home right now, so I can't access
> that box right now.
>
> Richard

Okay.  My guess is that you didn't have libmtp installed before, and you do 
have it now.

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