[solved] Creative Zen - can't transfer files.

[doctordruidphd]

OK, hopefully this is going in the right forum this time...

I have a Creative Zen Vision M 30gb, and music I would like to transfer from the computer to it.
Problem: nothing works.

gnomad2 - segfaults while trying to read the player. Lots of bug reports on its web page, unanswered --> ball dropped?

kzenexplorer - "Could not find any jukeboxes", exits.

Mounting using mtpfs:

$ sudo apt-get install libmtp mtptools mtpfs
$ sudo mkdir /media/MyZen
$ sudo chmod 775 /media/MyZen
Next, plug in your player and mount it:
$ sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/MyZen

Works, and transfers files, but the player never recognizes them as songs, and stores them in the wrong places.

All I can find by searching is all the bubbly stuff about how well it works. Must be flipping to some other dimension, 'cause here, it's flat dead.

Any tricks I may have missed?

[GilGib]

Re: Creative Zen - can't transfer files.

I've used a Creative Mosaic and all I did was copy MP3 files to it using Dolphin.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Creative Zen - can't transfer files.

On my system. dolphin doesn't see it. Nautilus does, but the problem is as above -- the files get copied, but the player never recognizes them as music.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Creative Zen - can't transfer files.

I take back the part about mtpfs working. It gives an error message saying "endpoint not reached". I have done multiple resets on the player, to no avail.

[askrieger]

Re: Creative Zen - can't transfer files.

Um, Uhr; You seem to have installed a package called "libmtp". On my Lucid box the package is called "libmtp8". I would have expected you to get a error message from apt-get, but apparently you didn't, so maybe I'm wrong, but (at this point) it can't hurt to install libmtp8.

Also, apparently there's now something called qlix:

Qlix is a user interface that allows users to manage Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) devices such as Microsoft's Zune.

I must admit that I have no idea whether this is at all relevant to a Creative Zen.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Creative Zen - can't transfer files.

Yes, it is actually libmtp8 that is installed.
Will look into qlix.

Edit: Got qlix, but it crashes while loading. I suspect at this point that there is something corrupt on the player. Will probably never find it.
All of the text-based mtp-tools seem to connect with the player and work properly. Could do the transfers this way, but it will likely be painful.
However, I did see mention of using Amarok, and I can confirm that Amarok does connect and transfer, at least audio files. It isn't my favorite application, but I guess I'll have to get a little more friendly with it.
Solved, but not the way I wanted it...

[smeghead67]

Re: [solved] Creative Zen - can't transfer files.

both my wife's 80gb and daughter's 40gb have died horrible deaths. they don't boot up and are unrecognizable to windoze or kubuntu. If i had an adapter, I'd rip them apart and copy the contents off of the HD.

Ted