Look out, Skye, this is a geeky post! :lol: I thought that I’d share a few nice things that have happened to me regarding my experience with Linux.
First, as many know, I have been using a Creative Muvo V100 as my MP3 player lately. I still really like this player. It does what its supposed to without any really amount of effort on my part. This is a good thing. Since my hard drive dies on the Windows machine, I’ve not installed the software that came with my MP3 player on it. That’s because I have been using it with my Linux machine.
At first, it was just a drag and drop experience, but now its a bit more interactive. I’ve found a way to ensure that I can at least “see” my player in Rhythmbox, and am downloading Amarok and Exail as I write this. So, I may have more good news as far as this player goes.
The secret is to put a small hidden file, known as a “dot” file under *nix, on the player itself. The dot-fil0 is empty. as the name is the only important descriptor. So, if you have a Creative Muvo V100 1GB MP3 player and its not recognized by your favorite music manager, try placing a file on the player itself called .is_audio_player and you’ll be pleasantly surprised that it is then recognized as a device when you plug it in!
Also, I have to advise that I have been successful in printing to my Epson CX1500 from my Linux machine to the printer hosted by a Windows XP machine. To ensure that you have this type of success, ensure that you have enabled unix printing support on your XP box and configured your /etc/samba/smb.conf file to use “share” under “security” so that you can print to your printer without having to enter a silly password.
So smb.conf is the file you have to edit to rid yourself of your unwanted authentication problem! Now if only we can get shared scanning to work!
Too funny, I saw the title the other day and chose to skip reading it, because it had GEEKY written all over it, and now I see that you warn me about that in the very first line…lol.
Believe it or not, I did read a geeky post over at that 123 guy, because Mac sent me over there to learn how to speed up my firefox. And don’t ya know it, I didn’t follow his directions exactly and screwed up. Just another reason why I shouldn’t read geeky posts…lol.
Tee hee. I just downloaded the latest Jak Attack podcast with Rhytmbox (its like iTunes only faster, less buggy, and simpler to use) and plopped it onto my mp3 player so I can listen to Jon and Kelly banter about all things Geek or Windsor
You mention adding a file .is_audio_player to the MuVo under a directory called “*nix”.
Since “*” is usually a wild card specifier, I’m not clear on where to
put this file. Obviously, the player does not come with any such
directory installed. Mine has its root, Library A, B, C, Recorded
Tracks, and lrc.
In the past, I tried adding other directories with mp3’s in them, but
the player did not see them.
Questions:
1) Exactly where do I put the above dot file?
2) Have you had any luck accessing the player under amarok?
3) Any ideas about how “favorites” works, using play lists, or otherwise controlling the selection and order of play (other than just putting stuff in the separate root, A, B, C folders).
TIA
Joe
P.S.
I have a 2GB MuVo V100.
My notebook is an HP Centrino Duo dual boot with kubuntu gutsy and XP
media edition on it.
Joe, you just showed how important that syntax is, whether you knew it or not. Because I didn’t enclose my aside with commas on both ends, you came to a conclusion that has ended up in confusion. For that, I am sorry. Thank you, though, as I have corrected that mistake, as well as a spelling error. Just place the file on the root directory of the player. Your jukebox should recognize it. Since I had zero responses on my problem with apt-get (seems that I only ask the unanswerable questions - time to head on over to LQ and ask my first question?), I blasted Ubuntu off its partition and am currently reinstalling all the necessary games and apps to satisfy me and the two kids on the machine. Once the Add/Remove programs stops installing, I’ll download Amarok and see whether it “sees” the player. I might even begin using it again. Who knows!
I don’t know anything about the libraries and how they work. My needs are pretty simple with the player. Although, I’ve seen that I might have a need for video soon, as I am starting to like a few vidcasts too, and it would be nice to take them along with me.
Come to think of it, I’ll install Amarok on my Arch partition, since its running KDE 3.5.9
I poked around on the player. When you add something to Favorites, it creates a file in that library called something.plt e.g. libroot.plt .
So, you get one playlist per library.
This is a binary file with the track names in it with lots 00’s in it (probably room for Unicode char sets, etc.).
As for play order, I think my old one (dead) played in the order you put files on it, but my new one plays in alphabetical order, so you have to prepend the track names with a sort key like 00, 01, … to get it to play in a specific order.
Amarok works with generic audio player once you configure it.
One thing that I didn’t like about the Muvo was the lack of documentation in the manual. It really didn’t help you with much. There has to be something more to it than that. Perhaps there is a random selection. And, what about the lyrics?
I haven’t explored much with it, as I plugged it into my Linux box and went from there. I did install the Creative Explorer on my Windows XP machine for kicks, but I only played with it once.
BTW, Joe, your comments are getting stuck in the Akismet moderation, so I apologize that your comments don’t appear right away. I’ll keep training it. There must have been a big spammer from the domain or IP block that you use. I’ll keep telling Akismet that you’re not one (especially, as your comments have been some of the most productive on the site).
How do you create playlists while in Linux for the Muvo V100?
I wish that I could help with that one. I don’t know how to create playlists, so I won’t be any help. I just dump my music (or podcasts) onto the player and play them.
Anybody?