Creative Zen 8 GB MP3 Player (Black)

Manufacturer: Creative Labs Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$199.99 Our Price:$139.88 Features: Enjoy all your media on a device that's about the width of a credit card Watch 32 hours of videos, enjoy up to 2,000 of your favorite songs or share hundreds of photos with your friends 2.5-inch TFT color display with 320 x 240-pixel resolution and support for up to 16.7 million colors Clock and alarm function, volume restriction, eight equalizer settings, and a USB hard drive mode Weighs 2.1 ounces and measures 3.26 x 2.16 x .44 inches (W x H x D) Description: caption {series-family: Verdana, neue helvetica, Arial, serif; series-format: 10px; series-weight: GRASSETTO; series-style: italics; } ul.indent {list-style: inner disc; text-it res-enter: 20px; } you carry your means to you with wherever you ramble with the creative player of Zen 8GB. It watches 32 hours of the videos, enjoys until 2.000 your favorite songs or hundreds of the part of the photos with your friends. And make it all on a device that is approximately the width of one credit card. A cutting exposure 2.5-inch of the shaver makes your photos and videos to come to life. It sees the Zen in detail. Formed small. Great characteristics. All in the palm of your hand. Greater sight. It adds still more ability than memory via the rabbet of shunting line card standard. It observes larger. Plans the sports of Zen one of 2.5-inch TFT with 320 contribution and color screen resolutions x 240-pixel to until 16.7 million colors. This cutting exposure of the shaver is impaccata in a device that hung hardly 2,1 ounces and measures 3,26 x 2,16 inches of the 44 of x (W x H x D). The inner powers of the battery the Zen for until 25 hours of playback audio continuous and until five hours of continuous video playback. It uses the shunting line rabbet standard of the Zen in order to expand your portable means library with music, the photos and the videos it stores on your shunting line card standard to you. There is moreover practical a built-in microphone for bloccanti notes on the and. The characteristics load on high your favorite songs, as also your art of the album and obtain andante with the Zen. ITunes of supports of the device more the tracks from the warehouse of the iTunes and the tracks of WMA and MP3. The subscription and pag-in order to-transfers the services from the system centers them towards the music satellites is supported, pure. It discovers, savings and million the game of songs when they subscribe to the services which music of limitless Yahoo and Napster in order to go. You can even syntonize in your favorite stations with the radio of FM of the Zen. The radio allows that you conserve until 34 preregulations. The Zen has covered them when it comes to the video, also. The device supports MJPEG, WMV9 and -- with the transcodifica -- MPEG1 and 2, MPEG4-SP, 5 DivX 4 and and XviD. It enjoys films buys to you or affittati and the exposures of the TV from the services online which Amazon Unbox and Walmart.com. It watches the videos domestic. Also cargos your Tivo in order to go film and the TV extension on your Zen. The additional characteristics include a function of the alarm and the clock, the limitation of the volume, the eight regulations of the compensator and a way of the hard drive of the USB, that it allows that you directly drag and you fall the lime R-at and from your Zen. The Zen can also work like practical organizer, allowing that sincronizziate with the perspective of the Microsoft and visualize your contacts, calendar and duties. That what is in the player of Zen of the box it, in the auricular transducers, in the cable of USB 2,0, in the CD of the installation and the fast guide of beginning. An interface of customer of the oil speck renders it one cracks in order to enjoy your means.

Reviews:

Love it! Love it! Love it!
I have obtained to my 8GB creative Zen as present of Been born them and I love it hardly. The software makes music in cargo and transfering my favorite TV shows/film that registry with means is concentrated therefore easy. The screen is enough large that you do not think as yours missing qualche.cosa and the keys are many intuiti to you and natural to use. I never do not go wherever without it. Nearly I have thought guilty watching my own exposures of the TV in the office of the dentist while the other patients have had to watch "as to silk thread videos of your teeth". He is much compatible one with the dispositions audio of the book. I do not know I have obtained close without it.


Good but small
After the purchase of the players more little expensive, I have searched this player. The devices you heal you and I of creative Marches we have obtained the good fidelity with this player. Initially it has seemed too much small and fragile, but soon I have uncovered as to astonish this player MP3 it is. The healthy quality is advanced. To obtain of the navigation returns has used to but you have alot of the pure options. The interface of Windows was a po scomodo, but thorn-and-I play has rendered it easy to around throw the lime without it. Converting a DVD in new disposition (for the film observation) it takes for a po' but it is worth it. Difficult to watch a film on the small screen, but it works without difficulty. I have obtained 3-4 film on a shunting line card standard 1gb. Mantenga the films on the shunting line cards standard and puts MP3' s on the player. The RISISTEMAZIONE hole/switch has been used only some times. Excellent player.


Great product for every function you may need
This creative ZEN is large. It works perfectly for sync' Ing with Windows.xp and Seen Windows. It is indicated like a smontabile drive in these systems and you can add the musics simply, i videos and etc. It has a good sound and the relative screen is much luminous one with good resolution. Much best of a iPod (that he is more expensive and less flexible). I suggest this.


Like it but,...
Never previously I have possessed a player mp3. Task that this is much easy one to use. The use in my automobile every day. But I have had an occasion when "it has gone to sleep" while I am listening to it in my vehicle. Continuous music to play but the keys on the device is sensibli not to react. In this case I have restored it and seems to very well work after the closing down and the new beginning. Therefore up to now good. I would buy an other!


So far,so good!
After reading all of the reviews and owning a Zen V-Plus I decided upon the 8 Gb Zen. So far so good. Easy to operate and holds enough tunes for my listening needs. The large screen is excellent and worth the extra battery time it uses up. I am thankful that (so far} I haven't had the problems mentioned in some of the reviews.


Excellent when it works
Player great MP3. The sound is incredible. Unfortunately, I have had to give back to two due unit the screen that freezes in on. The first unit has frozen in on (incapable being restored) after approximately two weeks. The second unit has frozen in on after a day. Hatred that the player has this problem of hardware/software. I have not replaced the second unit but if you could make sure that the problem has been resolved. Both the units have been ordered through Amazon. Amazon has been large to work with and to give back the units was much smooth one.


Few flaws, many pros
IMPORTANT NOTES IN THE FIRST PLACE: YES, he is iTunes-compatible and YES he is compatible with Yahoo! Jukebox, BUT ONLY THOSE TRACKS THAT YOU HAVE BOUGHT LIKE "BURNABLE". That is you will not be able to transfer your subscription or the tracks to this device, than of the flow are only right (for that one, you must have Yahoo! Music limitless Togo, that it is a invit-based service and therefore rare). Useless in order to say, you can import quickly and not painful the tracks from all the CD and/or copied any wmv/mp3/mp4 or any that one you already have on your hard drive: the device is browsable with Windows and all that you must make it is copy/paste to the device of right bending. Hour for the review. THE GOOD ONES: Compatible with one formatta variety narcotic of lima, without conversion, various of the iPods. Any is not compatible the software will be converted for you if to all the possible one. That is MORE ENORMOUS for the calculating-illetterato. Great healthy quality, a requirement minimal knot of a music player. Looks polish, advanced of IMO to the banal one iPod-as, design of the fil-small wheel. Sure it has obtained more looks and observations that the iPod that I have had previously. Moreover, he is more pleasant to hold in your hand: small but not too much much small and a lot sturdy/solid (which, if maneggierete the 8-10 hours to the day like, is an enormous one more). The enclosed software is fantastic. It is fast, sure (not frozen never) and it leaves them to control the lime and to generate quickly and not painful the playlists. Basically, qualche.cosa that you can make with the built-in software of the player you can make with the means explorer of ZEN from your calculating. Therefore, it goes for it. Many have protested approximately the interface, but really I appreciate it a lot. The built-in software is easy to understand and to use. The keys are a tad deceptive, but all that you must make it must play around with they for ten minuteren before that you can find blind hardly attacking them your hand in your pocket (something sure you cannot make with the iPods, of which the interface visual-it is guided). THE SO-SO: / - - the rabbet of shunting line expansion standard is is a pain that a pleasure. Yes, you can basically render this a 16Gb with a card of SDHC for some bucks -- but it is to align that only a SURE one to satisfy will strain of it and that while been playing satisfying from the shunting line card standard you cannot traversare the built-in instantaneous memory. Therefore, the caveat.emptor... but if you know that what been obtaining not is reason to protest. How many times really passages in review your music while already been listening to however qualcos' the other? THE EVIL: -- perplexed approximately duration of Info battery: "25 hours to listen continuous"? Not task therefore. More they appreciate 10-12, that it is on par with the devices similar you. -- the cable of the USB more short impacchettato never. It buys an extension of cheapo from endured Monoprice, less than already you possess a ship-boy of the USB. Otherwise, your player will find itself on the pavement or, defective, on the fall from the cable while he is loading and sync' and, nobody of which is good. -- the keys of the scattantesi control stick make a sound a po' annoying, not once pressed but once freed. Perhaps however, this does not happen on ZEN of my friend, therefore I has obtained "a defective" unit? -- TERRIBLE packing! Which thing was thinking? It is not only one of that Impossibile-$$$-APRE the bubble packages, but if the scissors that the player must relatively easy for nuoc satisfying... not, thankfully, that it is in the complete sight, but the handbook and the CD and the cables used impacchetta you. Therefore make attention. OTHER THOUGHTS: BUY Of ** One PROTECTION of the SCREEN! It applies it immediately. A screen will collect the powder (and therefore the scratches) within the hours, like all the LCD. BUY Of ** a CASE Or One SKIN! the Plan-black covering is attracted to the digital prints them like the flies to s__t. ** 8Gb it is perfect for the serious listener of music with varied taste. The buffs and for they wish to go for 16Gb. that the occasional listeners will do good with the moguls of means 4Gb., naturally, does not have to be applied: that one is that what the vision is for. In a generalized manner, one of the portable players of music of the better entrance-level on the market. The modification of prices can gush is the tratt-switch here: it is more little expensive than any other player of music of marks and the same things ago and, in my opinion, and more better. The support from Creatives is moreover famous bond, so as to I do not see reason not to buy one ZEN.


Great Sound Quality & Versatile
Good software to organize downloads and convert itunes downloaded recordings into MP3 and into the unit, in one step. Decent microphone recorder. Great picture quality. Excellent price probably twice the bang for the buck vs apple players in my opinion.


service great,..product isnt



Creative Zen MP3
That is my first player MP3. I have wished something to undertake the travels and the use to the gym. The software is easy to use and has copied in little CDs minuteren. The sound is large (even if is using the different ear telephone that that what has come with the player). The format is good for me; it is small enough, but not too much small. I have bought a separated accessory package that it includes the loaders, the cases and the cover of the screen in order protect the player. Up to now they are a lot pleased with the Zen.


Full of Features But Has A Major Flaw
About a month ago, I decided to buy a MP3 player. I'm a college student who is very tech savvy and wanted something very portable, and after much research I bought the Creative Zen 8GB because of it's immense features and beautiful screen. However, the honeymoon did not last long.

The Creative Zen does give a lot of bang for your buck. It's relatively cheaper than the competition and comes with FM Radio, voice recording, and has a beautiful 2.5 inch screen for video viewing. The audio quality is extremely good and you can even customize the equalizer. The Zen is highly configurable, as you can reorder your menus and it even has a programmable shortcut button so you can go straight to your playlist, your videos, or even the date and clock.

But the Zen has major flaws, specifically with Microsoft Windows Vista. I run Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate on my Dell laptop, and I prefer to use Windows Media Player 11 to sync with my music since the bundled Creative Music software is, to say the least, primitive and ugly. At first, the Zen works fine: I synced all my music with great ease and the album art transferred over. However, after multiple syncs, the Zen would occasionally lock up and turn black.

As other reviewers have noted as well as many other frustrated customers in forums, the Zen has a major syncing problem with Windows Media Player. Although this can simply be solved by resetting the device, it becomes cumbersome to constantly restart your device everytime you connect it to the PC. Another proposed solution is to stick with the Creative software, but it feels outdated compared to the simple Itunes or the sleek Windows Media Player.

On top of the Vista problems, the Creative support is laughable. The website does not even acknowledge the problem, let alone provide a solution. Despite the software and firmware updates, the Zen still does not function well. I tried every solution, from using the recovery option to formatting my Zen to reloading my firmware and nothing worked. In many forums, the Zen in general has many problems, not including the sync problem.

You may say that I'm extremely picky, giving a score 2 stars just because of the Windows Media Player. But I had high expectations, and after owning an Ipod before this (which gave me absolutely no headaches), I have come to a conclusion that this product isn't worth the hassle. The player itself is a treat; the shoddy software and its incompatibility with an universal program such as WMP is unacceptable. After a month of using the Zen, I plan on returning the player soon.



great little player
Love it. It's interface is similar to the zen micro, which I love and adore. I bought the clear plastic keychain case and that prevents fingerprints from taking over the screen.

Overall this is a gem of an mp3 player.


Good product, bad software
The general product is very well, but the software that supports the player is not enough strong to carry out the relative functions. I would not suggest more to buy this product until that creative I resolve the software problem. This player is relatively economic in comparison to other players, so as to if you are software savvy and you have the patience to take care itself of the screen frozen and constant restoring themselves, then this could still be one good option for you.


Good MP3 player in small package
Small & beautiful Mp3 player. I had initial jitters as it did not power on. Then I was able to use the Charger of Motorola Bluetooth headset charger for charging this device overnight. After that this has been a great MP3 player. I need to use the PC for creating all the playlists. The free audiobooks was not a good option.

I am happy with the MP3 player. I was able to convert some videos to wmv format with Zen organiser & my wife saw the movie in the player.

We are happy with the player now.



The Good Outweighs The Bad
I just received this product refurbished yesterday and so far, I am very satisfied with it. I will update this review as necessary (some of the experienced problems may not arise until a few weeks into use). There are many reviews that report freezing, but these issues seem to have been alleviated with the later shipments of the Zen and the firmware updates. So far, I am very satisfied.

The Good
-size: credit card sized, light weight
-performance: excellent quality audio and visual output
-software/interface: both very easy to use
-battery life: almost as long as advertised
-problems so far: none

The Bad
-software/interface: converting video takes a little time

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Three Week Update

-no freezes, no news, that's good news


Awesome MP3
I especially like the ease of navigation, the size, and the ease of loading files. I use it to listen to recorded books while driving in the car. I use a cassete tape adapter connected to the headphone port. It is compatable with downloaded books from my local library, and books loaded from CD's. It was the only unit I found to use SD memory chips which I use to store books. What a fun way to carry around my favorite pictures of my grand children. I am still learning about other features and uses.


nice to have, hard to use
an excellent multimediale reader, if you have the moment to it for I I am one of that people who appreciate the convenience of the itunes and as relative therefore the friendly customer the transition from a ipod to the zen was one painful process im frightened i problems is not limited to that one of the player, in effects my problems finds itself nearly entire with the software that must be used in order to transfer music to the player. The generation of the playlists is not that what has used to be with the itunes in which one can hardly drag a song to the list hour that you must find the lima on your calculating, to make sure itself relative not protected, then in order to see if the lima the video is supported on the player real converter is however that it demands time decent but it lime of the player of support of the doesnt!!! that has had had it my exposures of accumulation TV in the real disposition of the player, so as to less that you wished To spend 30 - 40 additional $ on a program of the shrink which had to all real yours lime of the player, does not buy this player also cannot put the lime of music that have been bought from the warehouse of music of the itunes because ' they are protect '. this fact extremely is getting depressed because a great amount of people outside is buying the cargos of the lime here of the itunes under the impression that can use them on other players of music great part of the unfavorable things that have happened could easy be resolved, however not being one person much patient, ritrovamento of the couldnt of the several solutions.


Total Zen
Creative has hit the nail on the head with relative the new Zen. I have found zen for being therefore easy to traversare that the didnt of it must spend much time that reads the handbook. Screen has one enough great and storage so as to not to feel two times the same song. Applauses to the Zen


Nice device
After upgrading the firmware (easy on the Creative website) the player has worked perfectly. Relatively large monitor makes it easy to read song titles, playlists, menus, etc., and to see photos and videos. Accompanying software makes transferring media a snap. Gave as a gift. Was so impressed with Creative that I bought one for myself too.


Zen
That is a large product from Creatives particularly if sapete to use the EQ. The caps are sufficient, the screen is the better thing for the point that of prices I have watched 30 days of the night and was Bangin. The use mainly in the gym in which you have need of something to eliminate your mind of all while you resolve.


Not good enough
I have bought this for 200 dollars when in the first place it has exited. That first one was a lemon, given back affinchè an exchange gives a second probability to it. The inferior line is that the creative software sucks. Hatred the itunes, that it is why I have obtained this. But the software is abysmal for this. The generation of the playlists on the calculating is a hassle, you must pass in review your devices you of bending from the title it of the album in order to find the songs. 5 minuteren ago I was adding the songs to a playlist, but it has not been conserved, so as to when has gone to watch an other playlist, all the songs have been lost. If it has asked to me to conserve in the first place, since "the just" key to the didnt inferior initially to seem to be the key it saves. Incredibly defective. Firmware modernizes practically every 2 hour that weeks(slowing down) in which some rifiniscono not to install, forcing to restore them the player. As I have said, the software is horrible, with the characteristics that surpass to mala pain the resistance and fall, in effects it would be easier if you could use hardly the explorer in order to add manually the thats of lime how much pathetic is. Creative definitively has means in order to include the software decent for this by now and they have not come hardly through. I do not suggest this. The player in if it is oil speck and he has an pleasant screen, but is definitively players towards the outside those makes here to less put music on your player than a chore. Until the ritrovamenti created to you some intelligent programmatori in order to replace the amateurs whom hour they have, I would observe elsewhere.


A few annoyances
I have now had the Creative Zen for about a month.

What I like about the Zen:

(1)its looks (very stylish and "with the times")
(2)the screen (clear!)
(3)the sound (crisp)
(4)the size (perfect).
(5)the alarm (it turns the player on automatically at your set time) .. but no snooze.
(6)the ability to drap & drop

However, there are two annoyances that I have found with it that make me give it only 3 stars -- an "average" rating.

(1) it does not have resume play. So when the Zen turns off, so does the place you were at in your music. ESPECIALLY if you are in shuffle. It turns back on a completely different song, in a random place. I don't like this, because when I'm in my car, when I leave and come back, I want to continue listening to what was just on, more like a CD.

(2) it tends to freeze A LOT when importing music and syncing. I have had to push the restart button at least 50% of the time I am loading new content. It doesn't get rid of anything when it has to be restarted, but it's a pain to have it constantly freeze and then have to restart it.

Because of these two issues, I am not sure if I would recommend the Zen to anyone.


Excellante
I never ever use this kind of MP3 player... amazing .. Bravo.... so small and doing more than ipod and junk Zune. I had ipod, always problem for video transfering. I used Zune, most garbage product, even when you transferring audio. This is best product in the market. Hopefully some company has to make a docking speaker system for Zen.Sometime I am surprised, why people buying Ipod ??? Once you use Zen you will never praise other MP3 player. Easy to use software. Beautiful screen. Buy it you will love it its my gauranteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Creative Zen review
I am extremely satisfied with the Zen.
I have not experienced any of the freezes that apparently have plagued other users.
Pros:
- sound quality
- menu system
- slideshow ability for photos

Cons:
- inability to save a song to an existing playlist
- poor documentation


So far so good. (30 days out)
Overall, I am VERY pleased with this product. It lives up to its ideal of Zen-like simplicity, much like Apple's minimalist approach. The navigation and feature set is a pleasure for viewing music and video. My only point of disappointment has been in its handling of some video. I rip video to .avi (divx compatible format) using FairUseWizard Light, and the Zen handles it fine. However, longer form movies and TV shows go out of sync (audio / video) after a while. I've remedied this by running avi's through AVI Splitter, a freeware app that lets me break it up into smaller pieces (I set them to 15-20 minute pieces) so there isn't enough length for the sync problem to exhibit itself. I'll experiment with the zen's preferred format, which is WMV conversion and see if sync is better. But I mention this issue because .avi is popular. I bought a silicone skin 3-pack, which gives nice shock absorption and protection, but picks up dust. Also recommend a transparent screen protector - the clear sticker kind - for total protection from scratches on the viewing area.


Faulty product - buyer beware.
I was foolishly an "early adopter" of the product, purchasing one in September 2007. I have perpetually had the following problems:

Freezes most of the time when playing video;
Fails on firmware updates;
Fails when transferring media;
White screen (locks up) when booting, and resetting it does not fix the problem;
Battery life is A LOT less than advertised.

I have tried everything suggested on their support site, many times, with no success. I have given this thing more chances than I should have and am finally sending it back for replacement. However, I am not optimistic that the replacement will work any differently, as I am convinced that it is flawed in design.

I am not the only one to have these problems. I strongly suggest you check the forums on the Creative Labs site before you buy.


Much research and Creative fan
After much research and being a Creative buyer for a long time, I decided on the Creative Zen 8gb. I was looking for something compatible that had enough memory to use for music, photos and videos. I also liked the ability to use a memory card. I had a Zen V Plus 4gb and the new Zen is so much better. The screen is bigger and brighter and the controls are so easy to use. I would recommend that you buy the Creative charger with it. I tried many other chargers that claimed they worked but didn't and wound up wasting my money and throwing them away. I bought some Creative speakers (I-Trigue 200) and use these at work (they sound great) and the unit can play for 16 hours without a recharge. I also bought the PCMICROSTORE Zen Snap-On Crystal Protective Case Cover, the ZEN Clear Case, a Case Logic Large Pocket, the Zen armband (for jogging) and the Koss KSC22 DVD Sportclip Headphones. The PC Micro case fit perfectly, is thick enough to protect the unit and has cutouts for access to all controls. If it had a lanyard with it it'd be perfect. The Zen clear case is good too, but you can't plug in the speakers when it's in the Zen clear case, although you don't have any problems with the headphones. The Case Logic Pocket is neoprene and has a great lanyard which I took off and put on the Zen case and it works great. I carry the unit back and forth to work in the Pocket and can use either one around the neck, I would highly recommend both. I don't like ear buds (and the ones that come with the unit aren't that good) therefore the Koss headphones. I also put a screen protector on the screen after reading some of the other reviews. In summary if you're buying this unit you need to consider the additional costs of a case, screen protector, charger, headphones and for exercisers, the armband. I would recommend all and am very happy and satisfied with my Zen.


Easy to use
The software that comes with this player MP3 therefore the ago easy one to use and to control. It is a lot compatable with Windows. They are happy with it. Products of qualities created you of Marches.


too many bugs
Therefore I have obtained its approximately a month it makes and it has worked alright. Songs were determined that once played indurrebbero the player to freeze and I would have to recommence it which was a pain. The thing bizzarra was that only determined songs they have induced the player to freeze, these songs had been bought from the ADN online of the warehouse of the wal-wal-mart was WMA formated. the figure goes. Therefore then a day that I was installing a modernization of firmware and because the cable of the USB was therefore short I have had to equip something on the posterior part of my scompartimento affinchè you seated to me over, but unfortunately the player has fallen from and the cable hour has come towards the outside mid-installing. every time that turnit of on it immediately freezes the any thing. Im therefore become ill of dealing with all the bugs on this system. To moreover I have had it approximately 1700 songs and trhough the andante they all with the small keys was a PAIN!


Creative Zen 8GB Media Player Review
For: - pleasant screen - video you are converted impacchetta Divx to you of the converter and videos of Xvid for the player - radio of FM and visore of the image - rabbet of expansion of the shunting line card standard - duration of battery much good one - good with of healthy quality: - poor handbook - it cannot directly move lime between the player and one card of shunting line memory standard. - firmware originates has induced them the player to freeze when one of mine plays videos. (the dated version hour is not fine.) The inferior line, the creative Zen has lotteries of the characteristics in a package polishes. They are happy with my purchase and I choose this over the video dwarf of ipod the all day.


Quite simply..........
does everything well-I also use the SD card slot to put photos on computer through USB connection


Every bit as good as expected and then some...
I do not buy the electronics without to make my job. I am buying the players created you of laboratories MP3 for several years, since were more the format of the calculating representatives graphically. Mine 22 years have had hour and still one for 5 or 6 years loves that in spite of it are voluminosità. I have bought my daughter a its first slid year, 1 GB and therefore much small I was frightened that she would be lost immediately. It also loved its, to exception that in fact, it has held approximately 350 songs and for a sure disowned reason for which it is not enough! It has only wished a IPOD for music but recognizing they were sfrenatamente expensive she have said that it would buy it same she after Been born them. Satisfying has not left its waste its moneies, I it has searched and found this honey. All the main critics us loved the Zen 8 GB, both for the relative sound, the relative video and the relative style. I have debated between this and the 16 GB but the posterior one it was difficult to find and since he has said that he has not taken care for the video AND chip ax the shunting line cards standard for expansion, I to me has deposited itself on this. He is completely agog over this machine. He has well beyond 1000 songs, the books audio transferred and two of last of Harry the film of the potter of Harry of the potter transfer and there are still more than 1.5 GBs. He means to eliminate the books and to put it on the shunting line cards standard for the long travels in the automobile. The quality and the clarity of the image are absolutely remarkable and while the telephones of the ear that come with the machine are not large, as mine 27 said years after to have listened to it, the sound is good darn also with a little expensive connection of the auricular transducers. It has been worth every penny and it is therefore alternative narcotic to a IPOD.


The boys in the State Department aren't teasing him any more
My order has been packed like arriving promised and packed well in the excellent state, arriving in promised time like. Sure I would suggest to this vendor and this product. They present for mine Was been born boyfriend and absolutely she loves it; its colleagues to the unit To declare are envious, they not to more take it in turn over its player of DVD!!!!


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Not bad! As long as its not defective
I was really nervous approximately the purchase of the this after to have seen all people that it has obtained the defective units. It extracts the isnt perfect, but it is better than the greater part. When in the first place it has used it, it has frozen two times in the first five minuteren that freaked me outside. It has restored it and it worked well after it. Ive hour has had it for over a week and only has must to risistemazione it 4 times (2 after uploading music). Hour im that this does not say is good, but it isnt to urge it enough to scream (however). The REAL PLAYER this thing is SMALL and LIGHT, more so as to that he observes in the images, but in the good sense. The screen is luminous and colorful and appreciate that you can change the paper from adorns to you. Coming from apples releases the small wheel, is nothing of better or easier, but the relief of the key 5way ago a enough good job. Claims 1. After that you select an artist it doesnt lascili to exclude the screen that of the album this the troublesome one for several reasons. 1. cant you see one list of the songs of all the artists. 2. if you do not know which album a song of the artists is over, relative a pain to find. 3. if you have songs from an identified artist who arent under a album, you it will not be able to find that song less than NO of the songs from that artist names of the album have they with. 2. I do not appreciate that the Ontario keys have light bulbs. Cant you see to the night (the light to them of doesnt of the screen they on one) so as to you must think around and to times pressing a wrong key 3. It takes too many releases from the menu main in order to obtain to one song 4. No fm that it records 5. The data on the rabbet of shunting line card standard are seperate from the menu that main this is a p.i.t.a. LARGE but I have only film on the shunting line standard that reduces disturbance 6. The clock rule always to a wrong time. DEFINITIVELY not perfection, but if you obtain work them and can be taken care of aforesaid editions then really are a small player taken care of mp3


Great iPod alternative
In the first place, ché large player! Easy navigation, observing video large, great and put healthy quality to easy point. I far away find the screen for being advanced to the screen of the iPod and the tact is much good. I would suggest to buy the caps. Those that they come with it are enough useless. The cable of the USB that comes with it is moreover a lot, a lot abruptly (perhaps an inch and along means). Since this is the only method to load the Zen, without to buy an adapter of the thirds party, would suggest to obtain a cable of the USB or an adapter longer than feeding. Initially all it has gone very well. Then I have obtained it to a message that it says to that was a problem of firmware. And- I have sent I generate and they have answered the following day to and have resolved the problem. From then the player it has been perfect. I love the fact that you can use all the software in order to obtain your music and video from, personally I I do not take care myself for the iTunes. I love the recording and sintonizzatore of FM and the key programmabile. renders the life much easy one. You can also use the multimediale reader of Windows to the synchronization.


So easy to use!
I purchased this as a present for my mom and was a little worried that she wouldn't be able to operate a media player, but this one is so easy! We are both thrilled! She is technologically challenged, but could use the Zen player right away. Also, the photo and song upload was a snap. I was pleasantly surprised by the speed of the uploads too. Great product. In fact, I think I will purchase one for myself!


Might be nice if it worked.
I have loaded completely and I have installed the software before trying to use. When I have inserted it to the PC on the callback from the installation software, shortly it has carried in on a screen that asks to modernize firmware or the glade the memory. However, it has been frozen on that screen. The screen then has gone black and hour I cannot turn it over at all, if or the PC is not inserted Seems as it would be pleasant if it worked.


Better than iPod?
I have bought this for mine mom, therefore I have spold hardly some hours that teach it to tear the CD and music of synchronization. I have possessed three iPods (a dwarf, a video and originates them). That is a characteristic-packed device that there is some of mine ipods. For many, better choice will be one. Characteristics: Zen strikes the iPod in the unit of the characteristics. The screen is better than that one on the new Dwarf (same the resolution, but greater). The factor of the eye-candy of the exposure is better. It strongly includes a recorder a much good and sintonizzatore of FM, that they lack completely in the ipod. Accessoies: Zen does not offer a river basin. the killings of the iPod zen in the useful competition of the accessories. You can obtain all the imaginable accessory for iPod. If wished a player to make more of your caps, does not obtain zen. Facility of use: Ipod earns an edge here. Both are easy, but the ipod it is easier. Ipod will probably gain always this battle because the itunes good ones is software much. The options of Podcast in the itunes are easier. The options as playlists and the videos of harvest they are easier in the itunes. The warehouse of the itunes is far away advanced (even if prefers to buy the greater part of music on discs). I have had arrests of the brace when initially it installs zen had the conflicts with WMP that tries to approach the player in the same moment in which the creative software of the modernization. I have had to two times soft risistemazione the device while I disorderd around with it. This kind of what does not happen with iPods because the iTunes ago all and is planned for iPod. Zen counts on the compatibility with WMP, than it is not creative software of marks. Since I have bought this as gift for a older person (mine mom is nearly 60), if you still made the purchase I would buy the dwarf of the ipod. Forms the fattore/comandi: Ipod has a light edge here also. The small wheel suddenly is mólto easier to use that the key of the menu of the key of the game of the nav 5-way on the key on the zen. Ipod is a po' more pocketable. Zen is the little largest one enough, but both are therefore many small and pocketable that as soon as it renders to one difference. Price: Zen is wide available for approximately more 25% than less of the iPod. Conclusion: If wished an excellent-easy one to use, excellent device of the oil speck: the iPod it is the better choice. If you are little technology savy and calculating software them guide dice, the ipod it still wins. If wished a totally described device and you are disposed to tolerate the software desktop a po' scomodo, the Zen is the sense to go. If I buy an other player, task that this has won for me because the radio and the recorder of FM would be many profits and are patient with the hickups of the calculating. Like gift for mine mom, I wish that I had bought it the iPod.


Creatvie ZEN 8GB
Great package, too bad the thing doesn't work. Downloaded, researched, reset... the works. We still have the white screen of death that many, many others have also experienced. We bought this brand after success with other Creative products and players. This will likely be the last. Now I know why the price is dropping like a stone. Creative, thanks for the Christmas present. Returns, hassles, and one disappointed child.


Great Player
This product is large and I lively suggest on all comprised the Mp3 players the iPods to it. The great sound, easy to work, video and excellent qualities of the image, support the numerous dispositions of the lima.


MUCH Better than the Microphoto!!!!
I have used to have a MicroPhoto Zen 8 GB but it has been stolen so as to I have replaced it with this. That is therefore the much better and easiest one to use! Navigation of the player is intuitiva and you really do not have to read the handbook in order to understand as it works. The healthy quality is narcotic and I really love that I can expand the memory with one shunting line card standard. The duration of battery is not easy spectacular and the scratches of the face, so as to I suggest that you convince a case in order protect the face and a battery of reservoir of reciprocation if sapete you is going to use this mólto. Moreover, if the left ones inserted your calculating in order too much along, can freeze on but that one is that what the RISISTEMAZIONE key is for. In all, a product much good ones!


GO CREATIVE! ANOTHER WINNER!!!
Ok im going to be brutally honest. This product is amazing. Its small, lightweight, surprisingly durable (especially since i've dropped it a few times) and the simplicity of using it is perfect. you have the option of changing your background to more choices than you'll ever need, and you can rearrange your menu to fit your needs. for sucha small device, the screen leaves nothing out. great picture and lots of color. Amazing sound, (its creative so duh) and it can work with many different brands, not just creatvie products. Love it! and i am buying another one for my brother. you wont regret this purchase.


Main memory can't hold many small photos but SD can
In general I like the player. Works well for music and videos and you can fill up the full memory with these type of files.

For me, I wanted my Zen 8 GB to hold tens of thousands of photos of small photos. I found out you cannot do this! If you use small photos (say 640x400), they typically take less than 100 KB space each. On a 8 GB unit, you should be able to hold somewhere around 80,000 photos (give or take). But I found that the unit could only hold 8,000 to 9,000 photos before complaining it had INSUFFICIENT memory. This is despite the fact that the Zen (and the provided PC software) says the unit STILL HAS MORE THAN 6 GB FREE MEMORY! With many small photos, my 6 GB "free memory" also CANNOT be used to store any music! So, if you load lots of small photos, you cannot use anywhere near the units memory capacity!

If you use high-resolution larger photos (a few MB each) you CAN fill up the entire 8 GB of memory with photos but who need giant photos on a small screen (i.e., it is useless). Also, you can only put a few thousand large photos on the unit and I want TENS of thousands.

After about 4 rounds of Creative tech support, I gave up trying to get these photos in main memory. Tech support claims there is NO LIMIT to the number of files or folders that can be placed on the machine and that many people are putting this many files on their machine. I went through numerous rounds reloading firmware, formatting, clearing memory etc., but the results did not change.

If there is even ONE person using the Zen 8 GB for tens of thousands of photos (and using all of the main memory) let me know by writing your own review. Maybe my unit is defective, but I honestly think there is some kind of design problem limiting the number of photos if they are small.

Next, thank goodness for the SD/SDHC card slot! I am VERY GLAD it does NOT integrate with the main memory, because the SD card CAN hold as many photos as I want, limited only to the maximum memory of the card. If the SD card was integrated into the main memory system, it too would probably be of very limited use to me.

For someone wanting zillions of music files, it would of course be better to have the SD memory look like the main memory. To each his own :)

A nice firmware upgrade would let the user be able to choose whether to use the SD slot as it is now OR to extend the main units memory and be able to use all the nice features that entails.

For those that don't know, files stored on the SD slot cannot use all the nice features that are available to files stored in main memory.


My best effort for a comprehensive review
Ok, I'll try and be as comprehensive and thorough as I can be. I've got the 8gb Zen and I've had it for about a month and a half now. Currently, I'm using the 1.13.01 firmware and that clear case with key ring that Creative sells.

Given that this is a music player first and foremost, audio quality is priority number one. While I do not consider myself an audiophile, sound quality is nevertheless important to me. The Zen comes out with honors here.

The sound right out of the box is fantastic. However, it can get even better with the equalizer and sound options. Hey, after all, Creative has just a little experience with computers and audio equipment and they get it really right here.

I've listened to other players that are on the market and I must say that I believe that the Zen is near the top if not at the top in terms of sound quality. Also, there is talk that they will be introducing X-FI to their players which is just going to put them head and shoulders above the rest.

Battery life has improved. Initially I was not getting the advertised 20 to 25 hours playtime, but with the firmware updates, this has improved greatly. Not sure if it's at 20 right now, but its acceptable. The Zen easily gets me through a couple of days before needing to be recharged.

The included USB cable is, uhm, convenient if you are traveling and using your laptop? Maybe? Fortunately, Creative is not using proprietary stuff here and I just switched out that USB cable for a longer one that I already had and I'm doing just fine.

There are actually two schools of thought with how Creative implemented the SD Card and I've become somewhat on the fence with this. First, I know that a lot of people would like to see the SD Card fully integrated (which is where I was), not all features are available for the SD Card. However, as a portable flash drive, it is great! Drag and drop with no hassles with the ability to still use it as extra storage for videos and music. And if 4gb, 8gb, or 16gb is not enough for you, just wait. Creative is coming out with a 32gb - don't know when though.

The other features are nice and I can't complain really about any of them. There's a FM radio, Calendar, Clock, Organizer, Contacts List, Microphone and plenty of customizable options. I just wish it could work better as a PDA (alarm and modify daily tasks) and then I would be completely satisfied! But hey, I got this for playing music not as an organizer.

The included software is really easy to use. Drag and Drop if ya want! The video converter works well, but may take a while to convert your video to an acceptable format. I just watched Battlestar Galactica: Razor on my Zen and it looked and sounded great! However it took over an hour to convert and put it on my player. There are other programs to use.

All in all, I have been more than happy with my Zen. Great, size and looks and sound quality is top notch with some nice features added on. There are somethings I would improve, but those do not keep me from enjoying my player. It does everything I ask of it. I highly recommend this one.

If you are considering the Apple Nano, take a look around. There's a reason the Apple Fan Bois are squirming. There are better options around and this is one of them.

Lastly, just remember, get your hands on one and decide for yourself. The vast majority of people that are happy with something are not going to come to the forums to brag about it. That kind of distorts the image more than just a little. There have been bumps in the road, but Creative is really good at fixing stuff and I'm sure whomever wanted to rush this out in time for Black Friday and all that stuff has been fired...



Waste of time and money



disappointed
In the first place, I have bought the Zen (8gb)from Amazon. Their service has been always exceptional. I think that creative it has not rendered to a good player because I have had to give back the replaced Zen because moreover it has stopped to work. That first one has stopped to answer while I was trying to load it for before the time. The second unit has been broken off in two weeks. Both have had the same problem: little blue light on the feeding switch is ignited and the screen does not ignite. I have searched mólto before the purchase of the this product. Too much defective it has the problems. I would still buy if you could finally obtain a not-defective product.


The reviews aren't exaggerating, unfortunately
The reviews are not exaggerating. I consider technology rather savvy and I have thought that perhaps the defective reviews have come from the people that it has really not known to make attention with implantations complicates to you. But I was wrong. That is a beautiful player with mólto going for it, except the fact that is extremely buggy. What first I have received has had "the bug of the screen white man" -- has begun to the skillful white woman of the screen from the box it, nothing could make the exposure to change and creative could not completely repair the error. I have transmitted behind (to Amazon -- mine sees postcript under) and has received other here. The second works very more best of the first one, but white man goes to the screen when the "lock" and then "unblocks it still". I must extinguish the player, therefore I recommence it in order to restore the exposure. Inferior line: I really wish like this player -- enough that I will try it more long little and I will wait for a new modernization of firmware (if arrives). But sound as many of the problems are implantations rather than to firmware. I fear that it is a lemon, that is disappointing. Purchase with the attention. P.S. Five stars for service of customer of the Amazon!! He is therefore pleasant to know that I have protection burnt obtaining from the problems of manufacturing of the Creatives -- something that maintains it to return to Amazon like normal customer of electronics. *** and it of the MODERNIZATION of the *** is not good news: 24 hours more subsequently, I try to them still outside and they will not play music. It freezes just. Laboratories good and not created to you. Not good at all. I will give 48 hours -- if us it is not a modernization of firmware in how much time, are of new to Ipods. Man, really I wish like this player, also.


Good when it is working
The Zen is mp3 a much good and video player. You must convert every video in disposition of the wmv 320x240, that it takes finchè to the video length to the converted one. Main mine qualm with the player it is that it has a penchant in order to recommence to times when is connected to my calculating. Once it has been extinguished when it was being loaded and subsequently not turned never behind over (has had one basically full battery). The push of the risistemazione of the feeding key has not given turned out. Therefore I have transmitted it to creative of new "new" and obtained that one. This "new one" has had the warning of the battery on the posterior part in French (has come from the function in Stillwater, APPROVAL of RMA). Day after that obtained it behind, I (stupidly) has decided that good idea would be one to modernize firmware. On the new beginning for the modernization, the player has obtained to declaring from which he has not sent back. On the departure, he visualizes the creative screen begins them and subsequently he goes space in.bianco. Here he is supposed for being an other screen of Zen followed from the ability really to use the player. That is still he does not ignite and he is unusable. I have not seen some real difference between the versions of firmware on the player (I have modernized many times to it). My council would be to attack with the version that you have.


Good Sound - carry a paper clip.
My new creative Zen (8gb) great sound with other auricular transducers. The modernization of firmware was enough easy to make - the program from the system transfers centers them towards the satellites from the creative place, fixed the Zen to the calculating via the cable of the USB and makes to work the program. Easy. The added one of music was enough easy - I have used the explorer of Windows. Then I have tried to using the shunting line card standard in order to play music. I could make therefore. However, I have acceduto to the system of the menu while I played a MP3 from the shunting line card standard. The system has blocked on demanding me to find one clip of paper in order to attack in the risistemazione hole. Hour they are cautious of using the shunting line card standard less that it has with me an object in order to push the risistemazione key. Bloccando on the player during mine first 5 minuteren of use is not a good sign.


Splendid Machine
The Creative Zen is a splendid machine for people who are not technology literate. I loaded my own songs, made my playlists and had a great time doing so. I did all this without having to ask for the help of my children. I was so proud of myself and this product is a great addition to my walking treks daily.


Very Good player
I had read to the reviews approximately the problems with duration and the freezing of battery, but moreover I have read to the reviews much good ones so as to they have been scared if the player were defective or good. But after that it came, I have loaded it for 4 hours before that in the first place my first use. It was automatically a blow for me. Player much good ones for healthy quality!, the shunting line design, screen, interface, format, card standard, the battery has been advanced to 90 for last the two days of use (not continuous!) with-back-behind luminosity it only extinguishes after the grip, the cant adds to the playlist, but you can make them. PS people. I have said that he has frozen on they, I have the same ones to firmware. He only once has frozen, my defect, when I was installing the software and I was adding the songs when I have detached the player abruptly.


creative zen review
i bought the creative zen 8GB mp3 player recently. i love the fm radio feature. the stations come in surprisingly clear most of the time. the battery lasts a pretty good amount also. good sound quality. i really like the earbuds that came with it. very small and light. holds about 1600 songs if there aren't any videos/pictures on it. but has room for additional memory card if wanted. i also like that it is compatible with napster. very convenient. but you have to sync up to the computer every couple of days to update. (small drawback) the only thing that i don't like too much about this product is the fact it sometimes turns off unexpectedly and for no reason. it doeasn't happen all that often but it's still irritating. overall, though, i think this was a very good buy. i would definately recommend this little guy.


Why people buy Ipods?.
They are a customer of the player mp3 from 1998, when you have had to mount yours mp3 that playerusing the parts of the PC, therefore I have bought the first player de River, the first creative, first archos, the first Ipod. That is never the better transaction in a player mp3. The sound is betas exceptional Ipod 10 - 1. The use is adaptable therefore easy and flexible to that what really you have need. Adujsted the menu in order to only show the functions that use. The fast reading of the artist, album that using the letter to the right of the screen is exactly of that what I have need. I am generating it a library of the shunting line cards standard with my music of the favorite (hardly like I have made 20 years ago with the trays), so as to selct of the latta one that 4 GB of musci I will use additional to the 8 GB of the player. Up to now, because of my library of shunting line cards standard, the virtual capienza of my ZEN is of 36 GB, soon I will preview that it classifies complete mine colletion of mp3 in the shunting line cards standard, as I wish. Quelaity and the color of the videos and the images is the better thing in the market, but the screen is too much small to me.


Was the perfect anniversary present for four days...
modernization of the **: has decided to be useful for politics of GREAT return of the Amazon and has obtained a new one of night. Week has worked very well for one. Moreover it has bought the free case (good) and the adapter of alternating current (an absolute must). Characteristics, format and quality of screen and outline of control all the rate a lot on ** the graceful accosente with many all the characteristics and benefits points out you from other critics us and it has left to add it to mine disturbance to the short cable of the USB - they presuppose apparently that all it more has a ship-boy of the USB on the scrittorio thier currently. The moglie loved it for its present of anniversary (has bought this as vehicle of delivery for a published version of our video of wedding) and was enjoying having them its accumulation music of country for exchange... for four days. I have given she the friday, the tuesday that is died. It will not feed over, no caricantesi exposures of the light once inserted the cable of the USB, nothing. It has tried all the suggested operations of risistemazione on the creative Web site, no joy. The called support of the Creatives and after to have last through supplying they all their information asked therefore like saying they all the things that tried, my telephone of the cells has fallen the call. But conjecture that what - not as soon as I have hit the key of redial, I have obtained "we I have" message to house gone (endured after time of 6pm Oklahoma). Therefore, I still do not know that what to more say approximately the reliability of the product or the usefullness of the auxiliary staff thier - I am hoping for the better thing, since feature/function-wise this was the selezionamento of the harvest and my moglie really has appreciate it. I will modernize this when I have one resolution.


Sound Quality is Superb
This is the first player I've ever owned for more than a month. I know some people look for good video playback on players (which this one has), but my focus was sound quality. And I'm amazed at how this player produces such an incredible sound, even with the packaged earphones. I'm convinced that this is the player to keep for the next few years.


Other than freezing up, a great player
I really like the dimensions, screen display, and sound. The recording function works very well, too. The only problem I have is that the screen occasionally goes black and the player freezes. It stops responding to anything and I have to let the battery drain. Once it's drained and I recharge it, it seems fine. I can't find a reason or pattern for the freezing. So far, it's happened 3 times in a month (once after I unplugged it from the charger, once when I tried to play a song I'd listened to already and once when I tried to turn it off). I sometimes wonder if I should have gone with the iPod just for the stability.


hmmm...pretty good
So far I really like this product. It has plenty of space for all the music that you actually listen to and still have space left over instead of paying a hundred more to carry around music you never listen to. I think it has good features, though i dont use them. The interface is simple but it seems to be a little slow scrolling through the menu. this really isnt that bad cuz its like a .1 second delay. disregard that bc its no big issue and will not dtract from the products quality. The materials are good. The buttons feel a little cheap but not bad overall. Overall awesome mp3 player. The software that comes with it is very annoying and stupid. Just use a different program to transfer and there are no problems.


Creative Zen 8 GB is the bomb!!!
I have been waiting for the device that could keep me from having to buy an I-Pod. This is the device. The only thing the I-Pod has it beat on is memory (and I imagine that will change as new models come out).

It plays more files, has as good if not better video playback and I don't have to use I-Tunes to deal with my product.


Great Player!
I think this player is awesome. I've had it just for a little while now but I have not had any issues with it so far and it works great. It does collect finger prints but I don't care much. I like the whole functionality of the player. I've had the RCA H115 for a while now and this is much better, in every way, than the RCA. The screen is beautiful! The colors pop off the screen and the motion of video is smooth with a crisp picture. I like the radio, too. I read that someone said you can only set presets by the auto scan..... not true. If you hit the play button in radio mode, it takes away the preset mode and lets you tune manually so you can set your own stations. I just hit random buttons to figure that one out because I knew Creative was smarter than that. And there are "dedicated" volume buttons while in music, radio, and video mode. Just hit the up, volume up, and down, volume down, buttons while in one of the modes that has audio. I have not used the organizer yet, no need for it so far. The time display is very convenient, my old player didn't have the time and I had to pull my phone out every time I wanted... the time! I have not used the SD slot yet but plan to really soon. I'm gonna put video and pics on the SD and leave the 8 Gigs for music. I don't see why some people are disappointed, its memory expandability! I like that the user can choose what shows up on the menu. The included Creative Zen explorer software is good. The only thing that I don't like is that you can't drag and drop folders into other folders with the "explore media" (I think thats what it's labeled) menu. You have to do it in "removable media" mode. Why is this bad, I did a few CD ripping's and then imported media, with the import media button, of the same artist and tried to put the imported album into the already existing artist's folder and it wouldn't let me. I had to go into the properties, choose the "show as removable media" option and then go back into the player shown as "removable media" and then do it. Sounds like a long process but not too complicated, just a little annoying. Now that I know this, its a lot easier. Hope it helps someone out. So overall for me it's a great media player, function, ease of use, quality, and enjoyability!


Great MP3 Player!
I have is iPod (players of Mini)and Sansa mp3 beyond that my new creative Zen. I really appreciate the easy operation and the commandos intuiti you of this surplus of the player the others two. The resolution of the screen is advanced to both mine other players and the software is easy to use. I have coupled mines with with of the auricular transducers of Shure E500 and the sound is phenomenal. The Zen definitively sound the beter that iPod or the Sansa. I have not really used the video function of the Zen still, so as to it is hard to comment to such purpose. However, from the function of a player mp3 for music, I could not be happier. I would suggest over a Dwarf all the day.


Small and Sleek, but SD is designed poorly and does not work as advertised
I have bought this article based on the introduction on the creative market that has worked with Amazon Unboxed, audible and the rabbet of shunting line card standard "would expand my means library" so that the memory of nucleus 8GB was not one limitation. Well, Amazon audible Unboxed and only transfers to the unit and the game on the memory of nucleus 8GB, but it will not transfer or it will not work from the rabbet of shunting line memory standard. Therefore, if thoughts to be able to go away videos protected or the audible books from the rabbet of shunting line card standard, you can be forgotten to this purpose. Protect MP3' s do not go away from the rabbet of shunting line card standard, but they are not integrated with the software of the units for the playlists. Therefore, you must manual pass in review the bending devices you on the shunting line card standard and play a song to the time (no to stand in line or to generate a list of the game). The moment that traversate via from the song that plays on the shunting line card standard in order to watch the list of other songs, the arrests of game. Therefore not there is fast reading with your songs on the shunting line card standard while song plays one. It works, but the shunting line interface standard is sloppy. I have communicated with Amazon approximately the edition with the videos of Unboxed that does not play on the shunting line card standard and has said that player of Unboxed must transfer the lime to the device. If the shunting line memory standard revealed like member of the nucleus memory, than not there would be problem. Moreover, they have said if the unit allowed them to copy/cut from the memory of nucleus and move/paste it to the shunting line memory standard from the device, this would allow that the videos gioc. I could not obtain one answer from creative on this edition after 2 days of the telephone calls and the email. Therefore a lot I have wished this device to be large and is therefore near but the limitations of the shunting line card standard rendagli really nient' other that a 8GB instantaneous players. I have need more room that that one. I suggest to read the tribunes on creative in order to see the list of the claims approximately this same problem. Creative has exited and said they do not plan modernizations of firmware in order to integrate more best the card than shunting line standard with the memory of nucleus or the software of nucleus in order to allow that protected audible video or gioc from the shunting line memory standard. It is an oil speck, dispositive small that has therefore a lot upgrades them, but the shunting line limitations standard render it for a customer with a great video and one useless audible library. If only audio you have not protect, than this device it will work for you. Thanks to generous politics of return of the Amazon, this article is on the relative posterior part of sense for a reimbursement since publicity has not worked like fact to. People moreover are signaling the Napstet in order to go do not work to the rabbet of shunting line card pure standards, but I do not have this service in order to confirm it that I have given 3 stars to it, rather than 2 because she works with the nucleus memory, the sembr good, are small and argument; but a lot is disappointed in that what I think are deceptive publicity from creative where they hide the limitations and they imply that the shunting line cure standard offers one infinite means library to you while functions with these services paid..


very disappointed
When in the first place I have ordered this product I have had it such high hopes for because it has seemed to offer many characteristics for a reasonable price. I had felt myself that the shunting line card standard has not integrated with the memory centers them but I was disposed living with that one. However the player riddled with many other problems. In the first place, after that you installed the software would not recognize the player when I have connected it to the USB and the problem would not have to be with my calculating because I have transferred all the modernizations from the system centers them towards the satellites from creative. In the second place, in more than an occasion that the player would freeze in on and when I have tried to turn it outside before the new transmission it of to Amazon it it would not interrupt. I have really had to transmit it behind while the feeding was still over. In order to conclude, there were some times in which music it was playing but the player would not answer is some of the keys. I could not arrest music or commutare of new to the menu. I understand that every supplier produces a defective product every so often but I have read to several other reviews is here on Amazon that on the surplus on Cnet that they demand the similar problems. Not task that gives to this player an other probability because the probabilities to obtain an other defective product seems relatively high.


Zen may challenge iPod.
I received my Zen soon after it's first availability.

Upon opening the box I was impressed with the simplistic layout of the unit. The customizable shortcut button is a nice touch. While not labeled, the unit does have dedicated volume control via the up and down buttons on the d-pad around the center square button. During audio playback, you can view the album art and even change your personal rating of the song in play for creating playlists based on song rating.

The included synchronizing software is easy to use and files quickly transfer to the unit from my laptop. I have used the video conversion program with mixed success so far. Thirty minute episodes and music videos transfer easily, but I am currently 1 for 3 on full length movies. I do believe that WMV or DivX movies at 320x240 will not require conversion.

Sound quality is wonderful and equal to that of an iPod. I personally prefer the menu layout compared to iPod and others as the menu is completely customizable.

For 8MB of flash memory, being only slightly smaller than a credit card, and the extreme light weight, you CAN NOT beat a Zen.

I would recommend a case fo the Zen. I am in constant fear of scatching my screen!

BY A ZEN!


This little device is absolutely awesome!!!
I bought the ZEN a couple of days ago and am completely impressed. I have had a couple of others (Zen V Plus - stopped working and Sansa Connect which had poor battery life and slow response) but I like the ZEN so much that it prompted me to review it. This is the first thing that I've bought that impressed me enough to rate it on Amazon.

The sound is incredible, plus it works very well with both Rhapsody to go and Yahoo! Unlimited. It is packed with features too. The display is bright, colorful and quite vivid.

The only thing that I would rate down on it is the lack of a dedicated volume switch -- but volume can be easily accessed via the "Shortcut" key so I still gave it a 5 because Amazon doesn't allow 4.5. Besides, the iPod doesn't have a volume switch either. I don't have an iPod, but from what I've seen this blows it away AND unlike iPod, you can use this with online music services and play iTunes unprotected files!

Definitely worth the money - just buy yourself a good set of earbuds (VModa Vibe is great or if you can afford it the Ultimate Ears Super Fi 5 is superb!).


Exceeded all of my expectations
I have obtained to my creative Zen a brace of the days ago and are nothing but astonished. The Zen is smaller than I have previewed and the screen hardly seems great and luminous colors, the pleasant interface, quality healthy excellent, easy to use... the only thing that sorrow I am not obtaining the 16gb to me: (They are happy I I have not obtained the iPod..


Compact, great sound
One week, and little time to explore the Zen's various functions. But I immediately filled it with songs. About 1,700 mp3 files left me with around 500 mb of memory remaining. The sound is much better than my old Dell MP3 player and better than my wife's Ipod Nano. The display is the best I've seen -- like you're holding a tiny HDTV in your hand. I feel it was a great deal for $199. Battery life is great, but I'm only listening to songs -- no video yet.

CONS (minor, really):
1)Slow to boot up (oh well).
2)The included software CD took nearly an hour to download (my computer is by no means slow), and dumped more than 100 mb of stuff onto my hard drive, including FOUR new desktop icons. I have no clue what any of it is. All I wanted was music, and to load mp3s I simply dragged and dropped the files from my hard-drive to the player. They moved quickly and quietly. So what's with all the software?
3) The Zen comes crammed with about 75 needless (yet quite vivid) sample photos and several strange songs. I killed them all to free up memory.
4) The USB cable to connect the player to your computer is not even 5 inches long. My computer sits on the floor, so my Zen would have to sit on the floor, too. I decided to use my old Dell cable instead. It's 4-feet long.
5) The FM radio is a nice touch, but as far as I can tell it only self-programs stations by scanning the dial for strong signals. I'd like to be able to manually program stations into the presets. Maybe I missed that function.

Cons notwithstanding, I love the new Zen already and look forward to using it for photos and video.



If you have iTunes, this is for you
Recently I have sold my video 30GB of the iPod because the iTunes it has been always buggy for me and I have had to buy a video separated converter, in order to hardly watch mine videos on the small screen. The greater part of the time mine lime of MPG or Divx cannot be are converted correctly in lima of the video of the Apple. The video will be all the green or in.bianco. Ché shame. Moreover the hard drives are one what of the past. The instantaneous memory is definitively the sense to go. With the instantaneous memory, little probability than out of order or of the defective fields is one on the hard drive. I have decided with creative because of their easy use of the lime of copiatura of music in the player via the USB. Creative has own they "ZEN explorer", that it allows that you drag and you fall the lime. Much easy one. No iTunes to wait for or of hassles working or arresting themselves. The creative program of Zen moreover comes with a video converter for FREE. Naturally it converts the lima of film in WMV, that you can choose from normal, good quality, or the best one. You can transfer the lima directly to the ZEN player or can copy lime of WMV to a shunting line card the standards and the videos of the game from here. I have examined one miniums shunting line card standard 2GB, micro shunting line card standard 1GB,


Does everything: tiny yet packed
It has obtained to my creative Zen this week and have been nothing but impressed. He is a player I polish solidly and constructed. The thing #1 to me is audio quality and the Zen is the ten here. I am using iAudio a U2 and has played large; sense better than Dwarf of my daughter. That is just as good if not better. That what I was trying in a player: First, good sound. In the second place, good duration of battery. In third place, one pleasant screen for the video and photo. They have been tried from iAudio the 7, because of that great duration of the battery and my acquaintance of their healthy quality. But they are insignificant in terms of video. The Clix highly is believed from the places of the techie, but she is weak person in terms of space (still that they attend on the 8 GB) and exposure (2,2 inches against the 2,5 of the Zen). For apostate confirmed of the Apple, when I have seen the Zen, with the relative audio video and impressive diamond and shunting line rabbet standard, I have known that it was "that one". It seems an odd number to me little that a player can support "to support" the video multiple dispositions, however I must convert nearly all. And the software of Zen seems to convert all in WMV. But fortune teller who is right the normal radioactive precipitation of all these wars of disposition. I have still to find a video or the audio disposition (aa comprised of the audiobooks, than I have not seen pointed out like specifically suppported) that I cannot (finally) obtains on the Zen. And the inferior line: the video seems clear, the impressive sounds of the audio. Synched in on with the multimediale reader of Windows, cuz that they are used to it. Mainly it has worked, but there was a sure one weirdness; the songs that have appeared correctly under an artist, have not appeared under album of that artist. I suppose that synching with the means explorer of Zen more best would work. But with the ability trascin-and-drop, or even the cancellation and kinds the bending devices you, directly from the explorer of Windows, these wrong impulses easy are repair to you. The key to me is the SDHC rabbet. With the shunting line cards standard that they earn in the capienza and that they fall in the price, this seems like the future to me. I am betting that the iPod of the following generation it will jump on this wagon. I have seen the claims approximately the execution of the Shunting line standard-card, that it sees the card like species of a separate device. But really I appreciate to pass MORE BETTER in review on the card elsewhere, because I can structure the things here as I wish. If sapete to generate the things in it a dragged device of bending and, will not have a problem. Just conservation simple it: one music and a device of bending of Videos and only WMA/V and MP3. I can see the monster "playlists" of the video and of music, it organizes to you close R-a.buon.mercato, cards many small of shunting line standard. The last one in the modular espansibilità. It is a po' slow to load the system in on, but that one is secondary, to me. The duration of battery is medium. But it is easy for iAudio the 7 of Cowon, with half of format of the Zen of the screen, possession that duration of impressive battery. A shining and color-rich screen as the Zen possesses must come with a cost. In the sum: That is an impressive player -- well-built, characteristic-packed, with limitless capienza of shunting line standard. P.S. It works up to now large with Amazon Unbox. The video is much bond, the audio has a small crackle-and-cracks; but general, not defective and at all easy to load (no necessary conversion, even if Unbox still does not list the creative Zen like approved of player.) However, the lime of the amzn standards of the Zen -- worked are not recognized on the shunting line card easy around.



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