Creative zen + Linux

Tihti olen mõelnud, et trammis/trollis või mõnel linnavahelisel rännakul oleks hea podcaste klappidest kuulata. Uurisin mitmeid mängijaid, nende juures riistvaralisi koodekeid, hinda, välimust, kasutajamugavust. Kokku sain Creative toote, sest enamasti on Linuxi kernelisse Creative toodete tugi integreeritud. Kodus näppides ja õppides relva tundma avastasin, et mu kõvakettale installeeritud Ubuntulane Mitnt ei suuda tuvastada antud seadet. Egas midagi, googel lahti ja infot otsima.

Despites that, I’ve had a hard time, managing to get it to work in my laptop with Ubuntu. Finally, I’ve came up with a solution. The comunication with the device must be done via MTP, so I’ve had to use the latest libmtp to connect it. The package included in the repositories is too old, so you have to download and compile it yourself. Here’s how.

Before starting, if you have access to a windows machine, please, use it to update your firmware! I think that it was am important step to make things work. Note that the creative site only shows firmware to the 4/8/16/32GB versions, but this is also the same to be used with the 2GB version.

Go get the latest source to libmtp from their site. Remove the old libmtp, in a terminal, by typing:

sudo apt-get purge libmtp6