Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Brings Better MTP Support
9 03 2008I have a Creative Zen Microphoto mp3 player which uses the MTP protocol. One of the things I missed in Linux was the ability to browse through the files in a file manager. MTP support up till now wasn’t too great. Some programs supported it like Gnomad2, Rhythmbox, and Amarok. But that was about it. If you had an MTP device you couldn’t do too much with it. I have made a request for MTPFS to be packaged. It is now in the Hardy repositories. The beauty of MTPFS is that now you can have the flexibility that any non MTP device has. You can manage all your files right though Nautilus, or any other file manager.
To install it in Hardy all you need to do it
sudo apt-get install mtpfs
Assuming you are part of the FUSE user group (which you should be by default) you should just be able to plug in your player and it should get mounted. If not it should show up under the Places menu. Sometimes it didn’t automatically mount for me.
oh! thats really nice.
I bought a Archos which has a “normal USB device mode” just so I didn’t have to deal with that.
Is there any config that you needed to edit my Zen isnt showing up in Nautilus only works in banshee
hi!, i got a creative zen vision m 30gb and the mtp is recognized but when i want to open something it appears the error “contains no data flow” and all the files shows 0 bytes. Other thing is that if i go to places and try to open Creative Technology (the name of my MTP) it shows the error «gphoto2://[usb:003,008]/», so i can only open the device with the shortcut on the desktop.
I will appreciate if you can help me to fix this or if you can inform of the bug or tell me where i had to send the bug so this can be fixed.
jeje, good blog by the way,
Well i have an sony nwz s616f and when i installed mtpfs in places shows that there are usb device but when i double click on it says: “unable to mount location”. Before that ubuntu even doesn’t seen that i connected player. Could anyone suggest me to solve this problem. By the way in old distributions works fine except hardy heron.