Creativ ZEN X-fi

[alezflute]

Indeed, seems like Glennric removed them from his PPA. Until someone finds another PPA, or a way to backport the package, it seems to me that you'll need to download the source and compile.

I know there's a 3.7 package for karmic, so maybe there's a way to use it, changing the repos, updating the package information and installing only libmp and its dependencies, and then reverting the sources list. However, I'm not using Ubuntu anymore and I can't test it, so I won't recommend to try such a thing to anyone. Maybe there's some way to ask for people in Ubuntu to backport it to Jaunty, or maybe you can find it on someone else's PPA.

Edit:
I just found Savvas Radevic PPA with i383 and amd64 binaries, but it's highly experimental, so use it at your own risk. There are instructions to add it in their launchpad page, so it shouldn't pose any problem. You can, in case you just added the Glennric PPA remove it. Hope it works

[hbutu]

I did the trick and now it works as a charm.
Thank you.

[I[AM]SMRT]

I'm having problems with my Zen X-Fi freezing when I try to interact with it using mtp-detect or gnomad2 (banshee doesn't recognize that it's there). Running mtp-detect, it's able to finish but if I try to mtp-detect again afterwards, it's unable to do so:

brian@brian-laptop:~$ mtp-detect
libmtp version: 0.3.5

Listing raw device(s)
   Found 1 device(s):
   Creative: ZEN X-Fi (041e:4162) @ bus 0, dev 6
Attempting to connect device(s)
Error 2: PTP Layer error 02ff: get_all_metadata_fast(): could not get proplist of all objects.
Error 2: (Look this up in ptp.h for an explanation.)
Error 2: PTP Layer error 02ff: get_handles_recursively(): could not get object handles.
Error 2: (Look this up in ptp.h for an explanation.)
USB low-level info:
   Using kernel interface "usbfs"
   bcdUSB: 512
   bDeviceClass: 255
   bDeviceSubClass: 0
   bDeviceProtocol: 0
   idVendor: 041e
   idProduct: 4162
   IN endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes
   OUT endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes
   Raw device info:
      Bus location: 0
      Device number: 6
      Device entry info:
         Vendor: Creative
         Vendor id: 0x041e
         Product: ZEN X-Fi
         Vendor id: 0x4162
         Device flags: 0x00000000
Device info:
   Manufacturer: Creative Technology Ltd
   Model: Creative ZEN X-Fi
   Device version: 1.04.08_1.03.03
   Serial number: 130300006B749DAF0002D409F474DDAF
   Vendor extension ID: 0x00000006
   Vendor extension description: microsoft.com: 1.0;microsoft.com/WMPPD: 10.0;microsoft.com/WMDRMPD: 10.1;audible.com: 1.0;
   Detected object size: 64 bits
Supported operations:
   1001: get device info
   1002: Open session
   1003: Close session
   1004: Get storage IDs
   1005: Get storage info
   1007: Get object handles
   100c: Send object info
   100d: Send object
   100f: Format storage
   1014: Get device property description
   1015: Get device property value
   1006: Get number of objects
   1008: Get object info
   1009: Get object
   100b: Delete object
   1010: Reset device
   1012: Set object protection
   1016: Set device property value
   1017: Reset device property value
   1019: Move object
   101b: Get partial object
   9801: Get object properties supported
   9802: Get object property description
   9803: Get object property value
   9804: Set object property value
   9805: Get object property list
   9806: Set object property list
   9808: Send object property list
   9807: Get interdependent property description
   9810: Get object references
   9811: Set object references
   9201: Report Added/Deleted Items
   9101: Get secure time challenge
   9102: Get secure time response
   9103: Set license response
   9104: Get sync list
   9105: Send meter challenge query
   9106: Get meter challenge
   9107: Get meter response
   9108: Clean data store
   9109: Get license state
   910a: Send WMDRM-PD Command
   910b: Send WMDRM-PD Request
Events supported:
   0x4006
Device Properties Supported:
   0x5001: Battery Level
   0xd401: Synchronization Partner
   0xd402: Friendly Device Name
   0xd101: Secure Time
   0xd102: Device Certificate
   0xd201: Unknown property
   0xd001: Unknown property
Playable File (Object) Types and Object Properties Supported:
   3009: MP3
   b901: WMA
   3008: MS Wave
   b904: Audible.com Codec
   b982: MP4
   ba03: Abstract Audio Album
   ba05: Abstract Audio Video Playlist
   ba01: Abstract Multimedia Album
   3801: JPEG
   300a: MS AVI
   300c: ASF
   b981: WMV
   bb83: vCard3
   be03: vCalendar2
   b802: Firmware
   3000: Undefined Type
   3001: Association/Directory
Storage Devices:
   StorageID: 0x00010001
      StorageType: 0x0003 fixed RAM storage
      FilesystemType: 0x0002 generic hierarchical
      AccessCapability: 0x0000 read/write
      MaxCapacity: 32127975424
      FreeSpaceInBytes: 6636306432
      FreeSpaceInObjects: 4294967295
      StorageDescription: Storage Media
      VolumeIdentifier: 130300006B749DAF0002D409F474DDAF
Special directories:
   Default music folder: 0x00000000
   Default playlist folder: 0x00000000
   Default picture folder: 0x00000000
   Default video folder: 0x00000000
   Default organizer folder: 0x00000000
   Default zencast folder: 0x00000000
   Default album folder: 0x00000000
   Default text folder: 0x00000000
MTP-specific device properties:
   Friendly name: (NULL)
   Synchronization partner: (NULL)
libmtp supported (playable) filetypes:
   ISO MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
   Microsoft Windows Media Audio
   RIFF WAVE file
   Audible.com Audio Codec
   MPEG-4 Part 14 Container Format (Audio+Video Empahsis)
   JPEG file
   Audio Video Interleave
   Microsoft Advanced Systems Format
   Microsoft Windows Media Video
   VCard version 3
   VCalendar version 2
   Firmware file
Unable to acquire device certificate, perhaps this device does not support this
Error 2: PTP Layer error 02ff: get_device_unicode_property(): failed to get unicode property.
Error 2: (Look this up in ptp.h for an explanation.)
ERROR: Could not close session!
inep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): Protocol error
outep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): Protocol error
usb_clear_halt() on IN endpoint: Protocol error
usb_clear_halt() on OUT endpoint: Protocol error
usb_clear_halt() on INTERRUPT endpoint: Protocol error
OK.
brian@brian-laptop:~$ mtp-detect
libmtp version: 0.3.5

Listing raw device(s)
   No raw devices found.

[alezflute]

Well, as I see, your libmtp version is 3.5. Maybe your zen x-fi is freezing because libmtp-detect doesn't close well. I suggest you to try to upgrade to 3.6 version of libmtp (the one coming with ubuntu karmic). Either you download and install it manually (maybe you'll have to uninstall your current libmtp first or change your sources.list, upgrade only this package (unless you want to get a hint of karmic alpha ) and then put your sources back. I think just downloading the package would be the most sensible idea. To install it, double-clicking should launch the package installer, or you go to its location in a terminal and sudo dpkg -i it. I don't know to what extent it would mess with your pc, but I think it should be just fine. Again, i don't have an ubuntu box to test it, since in Archlinux libmtp is updated almost since it got released. If it still doesn't work, verify you don't have any corrupted files on your creative player.

[I[AM]SMRT]

Well, as I see, your libmtp version is 3.5. Maybe your zen x-fi is freezing because libmtp-detect doesn't close well. I suggest you to try to upgrade to 3.6 version of libmtp (the one coming with ubuntu karmic). Either you download and install it manually (maybe you'll have to uninstall your current libmtp first or change your sources.list, upgrade only this package (unless you want to get a hint of karmic alpha ) and then put your sources back. I think just downloading the package would be the most sensible idea. To install it, double-clicking should launch the package installer, or you go to its location in a terminal and sudo dpkg -i it. I don't know to what extent it would mess with your pc, but I think it should be just fine. Again, i don't have an ubuntu box to test it, since in Archlinux libmtp is updated almost since it got released. If it still doesn't work, verify you don't have any corrupted files on your creative player.

Nope, it still freezes.

[alezflute]

Well, if you updated libmtp, and you have your libmtp rules (as it seems you do since otherwise the player wouldn't be recognized) i think you have a corrupted file which makes libmtp go crazy. I suggest to find a windows machine to try to connect with the creative software to see if there's something wrong like i said, or if you need some firmware upgrade. Mine worked flawlessly since the beginning, but if yours' firmware is different it may be the problem. In any case, keep posting the code you get to see if anyone else can help.

[I[AM]SMRT]

Well, if you updated libmtp, and you have your libmtp rules (as it seems you do since otherwise the player wouldn't be recognized) i think you have a corrupted file which makes libmtp go crazy. I suggest to find a windows machine to try to connect with the creative software to see if there's something wrong like i said, or if you need some firmware upgrade. Mine worked flawlessly since the beginning, but if yours' firmware is different it may be the problem. In any case, keep posting the code you get to see if anyone else can help.

I usually update my mp3 player from my windows install and that's the only reason I'm still using windows. I'm pretty sure my firmware's up to date but I'll have to double check that. Maybe I'll wipe everything on the zen x-fi and put the stuff back on in case there are any corrupted files.

[I[AM]SMRT]

So I formatted my zen x-fi and now mtp-detect doesn't show anything.

brian@brian-laptop:~$ mtp-detect
libmtp version: 0.3.0

Listing raw device(s)
   No raw devices found.

[bresdog]

I've got my zen x-fi being recognised by gnomad2, alls good there. My problem is when transferring media from the x-fi to my laptop it'll transfer 1- 2 songs before gnomad2 then crashes. Anybody come across this before? I thought i was maybe trying to transfer too many files so i tested it using smaller amounts but the same thing keeps happening. Weird.
Googled it and had a look around the forums but i couldn't see anything relative.
Thanks.

[alezflute]

So I formatted my zen x-fi and now mtp-detect doesn't show anything.

brian@brian-laptop:~$ mtp-detect
libmtp version: 0.3.0

Listing raw device(s)
   No raw devices found.

I don't know how you did this, but your libmtp version is now too low. Before it was ok (0.3.5) although you may still need the libmtp rules for it to work. That you find out by typing mtp-detect and reading the outcome. It's all written before in the post. Hope it helps