Re: creative zen management with command-line interface

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:01:43AM -0800, David Fox wrote:
On Oct 21, 2007 2:43 PM, Russell L. Harris <rlharris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have been searching without success for a command-line tool to
manage a Creative Zen mp3 player.

The only Creative Zen management tool for Linux which I have
discovered thus far is gnomad2 (version 2.8.12-2 currently in the
Debian "testing" archive).

Disclaimer - I have an Iriver T3 mp3 player, not a Creative Zen one.

I use mtp-tools to manage it. It's command line, and sessions resemble
something like:

$ mtp-connect --sendfile whatever.mp3

It's clunky but it does work.


dfox@m206-157:~$ apt-cache search libmtp
libmtp5 - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library
libmtp-dev - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) development files
libmtp-doc - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library documentation
libmtp6 - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library
mtp-tools - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library tools



But gnomad2 (which has a GUI) crashes on occasion, takes forever to
delete a file, and appears to have left a corrupted file on my

gnomad2 does also work here with the Iriver device, but it's slow to
start up and libmtp is quicker.


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I don't have a creative zen to play with, but I thought the zen player was a
MMC compliant (Regular or Flash) drive. If that is the case, then you
need to mount it as an MSDOS drive. Then use your favorite file
manager to move file to and from the zen. Look at the mount command
for more information on mounting the drive. Hope this helps...

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