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June 3, 2006
Whadda You Mean, No Downgrade?
My new Creative Zen Touch arrived yesterday, and I've just finally gotten a moment to sit down and play with it a bit. My first thought was to upgrade it to the most recent 2.x firmware, which supports PlaysForSure (i.e. Rhapsody ToGo), but running the installer informed me that there's no way to revert to the 1.x firmware.
WTF?
So for the moment, I'm sticking with 1.x - if anyone out there has a Touch and has loaded the 2.x firmware, I'm curious to hear how it behaves. I have gnomad2 and the latest version of libmtp installed, so in theory I can manage it from Linux either way, but Google turned up precious few actual testimonials to that effect.
Gnomad2 works ok (under the 1.x firmware) - though I can tell after transferring 70-odd tracks that transferring the bulk of my library is going to be a royal P.I.T.A. With my neuros the device was a USB mass storage device with a special database, so I let rsync do the heavy lifting, then just used a utility to rescan the drive and rebuild the database.
On the plus side, the touch is significantly smaller than the neuros, the touchpad seems nice, and (probably most significant) it has a search option, which removes the need to scroll through 7000 odd tracks looking for the one I want (anyone know if the 2.x firmware does also?).
Two steps forward, two steps back.
Posted by dberger at June 3, 2006 2:33 PM