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Creative Zen Micro Ships Today

Posted by michael on from the rock-garden-optional dept.

SpaFF writes "Today Amazon started shipping the shipping the Zen Micro, Creative's answer to the Ipod-mini and one of several touted 'ipod-killers' due out for the holiday season. Sporting 5GB of space, a form-factor similar to the Ipod-mini, built-in FM radio, and a REMOVABLE battery, the Zen Micro looks quite promising. Does anyone know if this thing will work with Linux?"

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  1. More info... by elid · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...at PCMag

  2. Zen Xtra works with Linux by severett · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes I know it's not the same product. :)

    I do want to report that my Nomad Zen Xtra Jukebox works great with Linux if you use the the gnomad2 program.

    Gnomad might work just as well with this product.

  3. Try Nomadness... by zjbs14 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Easy fix to this one: http://www.nomadness.net

    They have all the older versions of the Creative software, back to Playcenter 2.x, drivers, and lots of other goodies.

    And FWIW, I would suspect the new player will work with Gnomad, the free Nomad software for Linux.

    Unless you were just wanting to rant on Creative for a while...

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  4. Re:OggVorbis Support? by sqlrob · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because you can't (legally) rip to MP3 with Free software?

    Is there a Fraunhoffer blessed Open Source implementation of MP3 ripping?

  5. Re:5GB growing? by ibsteveog · · Score: 3, Informative
    This isn't hard to explain..

    From the article:
    You will never be without your favourite music with ZEN MICRO. Squeezed into its micro-sized casing is the capacity to store an astounding 2,500 songs on its 5GB hard drive (1)
    and from the footnote:
    (1) 2500 songs at 64kbps WMA. 1250 songs at 128kbps MP3. 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Available capacity will be less. Reported capacity will vary.
  6. No linux support at all by Wizard+of+OS · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please mod the parent down, it's a troll.

    I recently got a Creative Zen Touch (a present from my company; if I had to choose it'd be an iPod), and I've already spent an unsuccesfull day getting it to work under linux. There is no way that you would mount this device, since it is NOT an USB mass storage device but uses proprietary Creative protocols.

    There is one open-source project (Gnomad2) that claims to do the job, but I haven't been able to get that working. If I had the C skills and the time, I would try writing a LUFS plugin. For now, I'm pondering buying an USB2 card, because gnomad2 refuses to work with usb1.1 it seems.

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