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Problem:
My Creative MuVo MP3 player doesn't appear in iTunes (OS X).

Solution:

Apple's iTunes (including version 6) has a problem in that it doesn't recognize Creative's MuVo MP3 player properly due to a miscapitalized string in the application bundle. Here's a quick fix. See this page for a full explanation of the problem.

1. Quit iTunes
2. Open the application Applications > Utilities > Terminal
3. Copy and paste the following lines into the Terminal window.

   cd /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS
   cp iTunes iTunes.bak
   cat iTunes.bak | sed 's/Nomad/NOMAD/;s/MuVo/MUVO/;s/CREATIVE/Creative/' > iTunes   

4. Restart iTunes. It should now recognize your MuVo player.

What these commands do: Makes a backup of iTunes named iTunes.bak, then scans the iTunes application for the incorrect strings and replaces them with the correct ones.

Note that when you updates your iTunes application to the next version, these changes will have to be reapplied.