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Creative Zen How to Connect to

I recently I got a Creative Zen. In order to get Creative Zen to work with Debian:

Code:

aptitude install libmtp7 amarok mtpfs mtp-tools

Then in Amarok:
Go to Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Media Devices and select 'Add Device.' Choose MTP Media Device and give it a name.
Click on the bottom left corner 'device.'
Then click on 'connect' which is the first horizontal button on the left.

This walk through: http://www.funzt.info/?p=121
is what helped me get it work. (There were others but they didn't work as well e.g. Gnomad2 and kzenexplore.)

After some experimentation I found that once things were up and running Gnomad2 worked better. Using Amarok about 1/2 of the artists names disappeared from the songs. Formatting the Zen and reinstalling the same songs with Gnomad2 resulted in all the songs maintaining all their tag data.