The Creative Zen Vision M doesn’t just show up like a USB drive when you plug it in to your machine as it uses MTP, which is part of the Windows Media framework. The latest version of Amarok has MTP support but you have to recompile it using the --with-mtp option after installing libmtp. So for a quicker solution there is Gnomad. It’s certainly not the nicest interface to look at, but for just transferring mp3s it does the job.
This thread on the Ubuntu forums has instructions how to manually install both in Edgy and Dapper.
The only problem I had was that libmtp wouldn’t compile. The error messages that popped up didn’t make much sense to me. But when I opened up Synaptic and searched for libmtp I saw that there was a package installed called libmtp2. After removing it the compile errors stopped and it installed without a hitch.
And even though it says Ubuntu in the title, this really should work on any distro.
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