I know this is a new feature in version 1.4.1, and much thanks for implementing it. It caused me to drag my old Creative MP3 player out of the pile of dust it was collecting.

When I click the button in the options to autodetect devices, it immediately comes back with an error saying none were found, and that if it is wrong I should check DBUS and HAL daemons. Now I know that my Nomad is working, as Gnomad 2 can interface with it, and give me a list of songs on it (didn't bother messing with it more than that). I'm not really finding much in the way of troubleshooting info, which comes to be expected, as this is the first version that supports Creative media players.

I've updated all of my DBUS packages, and made sure I had the latest HAL for my distro (Fedora Core 5, using KDE 3.5.3 directly from the KDE.org repository for FC5, and not the hacked-to-hell version that comes with RedHat based distros), with a reboot afterwards. I cannot execute the console command dcop kded mediamanager fullList (error message -- ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!) as the error from AmaroK suggested, so I'm not sure what it would have told me.

I built AmaroK 1.4.1 from source, with the latest versions of libnjb and libusb installed prior to configuration (Creative device support was enabled automatically durring configuration). I also built and installed TagLib 1.4 from source prior to configuring AmaroK.

Can anyone think of any troubleshooting steps, or anything I might be doing wrong? I'm still no expert, and only have about 3 years of Linux experience under my belt (almost all RedHat).

Did you try manually adding the nomad device in the Amarok settings?
Open "Settings>Configure Amarok..."
Click "Media Devices"
Click "Add Device..."
Select "Creative Nomad Jukebox Media Device" from the plugin list
Enter a name for the device (ie 'nomad')

That's all you should need.

When you want to use your nomad, plug it in, go to the "Media Devices" browser, make sure "NJB Media Device" is selected from the pull-down menu at the top, and click "Connect".

Thanks. I had messed with that, but I decided that I should leave it alone when I couldn't figure out if my Nomad needed a mountpoint to be specified.

It's connecting, and working fine now.

Hi,

I have a Nomad Zen Extra and its not showing up in the drop down list under media devices (just none, iPod and iRiver).  lsusb shows my player though. 

Please help.

Kubuntu 6.06 Amarok 1.4.1

Thanks

brainjuice wrote:Hi,

I have a Nomad Zen Extra and its not showing up in the drop down list under media devices (just none, iPod and iRiver).  lsusb shows my player though. 

Please help.

Kubuntu 6.06 Amarok 1.4.1

Thanks

Well Kubuntu doesn't install the NJB media device apparently. Its a new feature, hopefully the distros will get around to supporting it.

Thanks for the reply.

Is there somewhere i can dl the missing file?

at this stage, you'd need to make sure you have libnjb installed (and libnjb-devel), and you'd also have to compile amarok yourself with the --with-libjb configure setting (along with any other settings you require).
I'm sure if enough people ask the maintainer, nomad support will be enabled for (k)ubuntu.