Amarok and Creative Zen V mp3 players

[manchicken]

On Monday 07 May 2007 19:37:38 Donald Allwright wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:15:09 +0200
> From: manchicken <manchicken at notsosoft.net>
> Subject: Re: Amarok and Creative Zen V mp3 players
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> 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"
>
> -
> <snip>
> -
>
> >What libraries did you also install in the process of installing
>
> Gnomad2?
>
> When I wrote my original mail, I had tried Gnomad2 but without success.
> However, it seems to have started working now so that might have been a
> blip. Looking into the libraries I have libnjb5 version
> 2.2.5-4.1ubuntu2 and libmtp5 version 0.1.3-0ubuntu2. The creative Zen V
> seems to be supported in libmtp from version 0.1.4, however it may be
> that the only relevant changes are those to the udev configuration
> which I have applied manually, so this is why it's now working in
> Gnomad2. Still no joy with Amarok though. Typing:
>
>  ldd `which amarok` | grep mtp
>
> returns no results, so I think Amarok must have its own mtp support
> built in rather than using libmtp. It may be that it lacks something
> required by the Zen V? Amarok version is 2:1.4.5-0ubuntu7+medibuntu1,
> the version from the medibuntu repository that is built with mtp
> support (among other things).
>
> Donald
>
>
>
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No, Amarok is using libmtp for sure.  I've never done this exercise myself 
until today, but I just looked in all amarok and its libraries and nothing 
seems to link to libmtp.  My guess is that they're dynamically 
loading /usr/lib/kde3/libamarok_mtp-mediadevice.so when it's time to interact 
with MTP devices.

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