- 11
- Jan
Yesterday I got this mp3 player to work under Win2k, so last night I tried to get it to work with amarok. Amarok supports mtp devices, but you need to have libmtp up to date.
As of writing this, ubuntu gutsy has libmtp 0.2.1. The current version is 0.2.4. To get support for this in amarok, it is necessary to build it from source with the newer version of libmtp available on the system.
I won’t go into huge detail, but if you download, build and compile the newer libmtp, and then build amarok on top of this, the zen should work with it then.
Something like this:
user@hostname:~/Downloads$ wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libmtp/libmtp-0.2.4.tar.gz
user@hostname:~/Downloads$ tar -zxvf libmtp-0.2.4.tar.gz
user@hostname:~/Downloads$ cd libmtp-0.2.4/
user@hostname:~/Downloads/libmtp-0.2.4/$ ./configure
user@hostname:~/Downloads/libmtp-0.2.4/$ make
user@hostname:~/Downloads/libmtp-0.2.4/$ sudo checkinstall
user@hostname:~/Downloads/libmtp-0.2.4/$ cd ..
user@hostname:~/Downloads/$ wget http://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/1.4.8/src/amarok-1.4.8.tar.bz2
user@hostname:~/Downloads/$ tar -jxvf amarok-1.4.8.tar.bz2
user@hostname:~/Downloads/$ cd amarok-1.4.8
user@hostname:~/Downloads/amarok-1.4.8$ ./configure --enable-mysql --enable-postgresql --with-mp4v2 --with-libkarma --with-libnjb --with-libmtp --with-libgpod --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
user@hostname:~/Downloads/amarok-1.4.8$ make
user@hostname:~/Downloads/amarok-1.4.8$ sudo checkinstall
That’s essentially it, but of course, you’ll be missing loads of libraries. You’ll found out which during the ./configure stage.
When you are missing a library, aptitude search
, and then sudo aptitdue install -dev. The ./configure I use amarok basically enables everything, the important ones being postgres, mysql, ipod and njb support.
Amarok provide instructions on installation.
After the above procedure, you should be able to connect to your zen. It’ll work, ut I’ve found it a bit flaky. Questions welcomed, I’ll do my best to get back to you. Hopefully soon I’ll provide details on getting trankode installed. Transkode is handy because it’ll auto convert incompatible file types that the zen won’t play (.ogg and .flac)