bought a rather ancient 4gb creative zen micro from a guy at work…not really sure why as i already have 2 mp3 players but buy it i did.
one problem. as its an mtp device it isn’t detected in the usual ‘mass storage’ way by ubuntu (or windows for that matter) so i had to find a work around. first stop was the rather clever gnomad2 which can be installed easily with
apt-get install gnomad2
this will install the app along with a couple of dependencies. after this has finished gnomad2 can be found in the ‘sound & video’ menu.
i plugged in the micro and started the program but was met with the error ‘usb_set_configuration: operation not permitted’.
the fix requires you to copy this file (right-click and ‘save as’) to /etc/udev/rules.d/ as root…like so…
sudo cp 99-nomad.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
after copying the file udev must be restarted by issuing
sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
finally add your username to the ‘plugdev’ group
sudo gpasswd –a username plugdev
gnomad2 should now detect the zen micro and tunes can be happily copied across to it. lot of effort for a mediocre media player. might end up sticking with my sony nwz-b135 which works with linux out of the box (terrible shuffle mode though!). source
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