After getting some re-assurances from Tony Vroon, I am going to (cheekily) go Back to PC World and see if I can find the Zen player that I took back into the shop, in the discounts section.
Don't worry - if I recognise the packaging I will offer to pay them the full price again (so long as they honour the three year insurance plan) LOL it would just be funny to see how much they reduced it to. I will test it again and give feedback to Tony, and if I cant get it to work in Ubuntu under gnomad2 I will live with using Windows to synch it until the January meeting, Tony is convinced it should work, and as he used to work at Creative, thats a pretty good indication that it will be supported in one way or another. it was a really nice player actually, and the other Main reason I went for the Creative Zen is for the DivX support. Picture<http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.infosyncworld.com/creative_zen_16gb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/8236.html&h=282&w=399&sz=16&hl=en&start=11&tbnid=YgUq6eLr-UZSUM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=124&prev=/images%253Fq%253Dcreative%252B4gb%2526gbv%253D2%2526svnum%253D10%2526hl%253Den%2526sa%253DG> Regards Richard On 26/11/2007, Richard Forth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > damn, too late, I took it back yesterday. > > On 26/11/2007, Tony Vroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Richard Forth wrote: > > > I bought the Zen 4gb model today, it doesnt work with Linux, only > > > windows (with proprietary software), so Im taking it back to the shop > > > tomorrow for a refund. > > > > No need. The Zen or Zen Plus 4GB units talk MTP (Media Transfer > > Protocol). Install Gnomad2 if you're a GTK+/Gnome guy or install Amarok > > with MTP support if you're a Qt/KDE guy. > > Other software that supports MTP devices: > > http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=downstream > > > > This will work for all newer Creative Labs hardware. The older hardware > > such as the Zen Touch will be speaking the Creative-proprietary NJB > > (Nomad JukeBox) version III protocol instead: > > http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/?section=projects > > > > Please fire whoever advised you that the player would not work in linux > > or OS X. > > > > Regards, > > Tony V. > > (who used to work for Creative Labs) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFHSqebp5vW4rUFj5oRCIDGAKCEHHVwXz1QfK8jUS7T0SYlxSZa9ACfX7rZ > > /PauFjl6TR5Ta2m3FRtBqxg= > > =zrST > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peterboro mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > > > > -- > ***** > Richard Forth > > "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" > > ***** > -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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