Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $199.00 | Rating: 7
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.8.1
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 2
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For most users, Dell DJ is sync'd by booting into WinXP and installing MusicMatch and then doing a sync. If you're like me, I hate booting into Windows and try to minimize that as much as possible.
It turns out that the Dell DJ is simply Creative's Nomad Jukebox repackaged: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2326
You can pick up the user-level USB drivers from http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/
For a GUI interface, you can use http://www.ritter.demon.co.uk/index.html#gnomedap
The install of the driver and the gui was fairly seemless. There is some deal to add "<item>$prefix/lib/bonobo/servers</item>" to your /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml
I would suggest doing this BEFORE compiling neutrino.
Once installed, I plugged in my Dell DJ, which caused neutrino to freeze. I unplugged it, and then restarted neutrino. Plugged it in again and had neurtino scan for the DJ. It came up perfectly.
Word of wisdom: don't try to do too many things at a time (e.g. syncing songs, then trying to get jukebox info.) Bad things will happen(tm).
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