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  • how do you format this thing?

  • @IIIGameReviewsIII on the bottom there is a tiny reset hole press it...

    

  • Apparently I can't... turn off my Zen 8GB. It suddenly froze during the song, buttons dont respond at all. I still can power it up but why should I if i can do nothing with it. Reset didn't help too.

  • how can i reset my creative zen 8gb »?

  • what is the maximum external memory allowed?

  • I wish this player had a AMOLED display like the Iriver Clix2.

  • can you tell me about the battery life please

  • Their headphones are really nice.

  • howcome the only thing the only purpose of a MP3 player solely is NEVER mentioned in reviews ?

    Right, since you dont know what i mean ill explain.... Ahem.. How is the sound how is the default headset?

    Its like how easy does the buttons push themselves if you have them in a pocket while walking or whatever, tried that with phones? yea they got a keylock and yet it can manage to lock up and dial a random number. Seriously its getting old with same problems but HEY its looking good.

  • i think the best thing about this player is the battery life, you only need to charge awhile and it can be use for a long time...

    but i was having problem with the buttons now that i felt like throwing it to the wall, only the "up" button is working, you need to press extra careful or extra hard to get other buttons to work, do you know how to fix it?

  • i used to have it. I loved it. I WANT IT BACK!!

  • I got to say you was slagging it off from the start "cheap looking headphones" you didn't even unpack them and you made that statement, "not a lot there" well isn't that what you buy it for, the less complex the better it is, the small er it is as well, I'm not looking for some boom box!! try and make objective videos in future

  • @TheHouseOfTechHelp Hell no it wont.

  • hahaha say you wanted to see this picture of a baby here (i dont know why that was funny but it was :)

  • I can get 30+ hours out of mine, even with the screen on the lowest brightness setting the screen is still plenty bright, I had it on the lowest setting for two years until last night when I said "hmm, I wonder how bright the screen goes" I turned the brightness all the way up and I could use the screen as a flashlight, I just set it to a white picture and turned the screen up to the brightest setting.

  • can videos go on it?

  • @TheBellaTwinsFTW Yes, if they are converted to wmv.

  • that button is the shortcut button, u have to assign sumthin to it then press that button and your get there quicker

  • I've had two Zens. First one was a 2G, the second was a 16G. They both bugged out.

  • MAN Zunes are better

  • You have lots of mp3 players there, any chance of sending me one?

  • how much does it cost?

  • @Amimegirl its really cheap i got one a few yrs ago

  • i had tthe small zen but i lost it ... so i thought i'l just buy another one ... but this one is looking nice

  • guy sounds like seth rogen lol

  • Do you collect mp3s or what? you're a rich bastard! : P

  • IPODS RULE OVER ZENS

  • this guy works in electronics? lol

    this redneck cant even find out how to open this thing. Gets out the Bowie knife and destroys the box. Next time you are trying to sell something maybe research how to OPEN THE Freekin BOX Before you put your stupid self on TV

  • @richardreidjr He did fail.

  • @richardreidjr too bad this isn't tv so i guess intelligence doesn't count for much here doesn't it.

  • i had that.

    my mother left it in Ethiopia

  • Even after many years, i still LOVE it!

  • hairy arms :-D

  • listening to mine right now=)

  • why buy stupid stuff if u have ipods u can buy.

  • @jacysing89

    but ipods buyers are gay...gaypod lover....

  • haha your spoilt ;p

  • I love this one :]

    only....mine was stolen a few days ago T_T

  • why couldn't my zen mx play avi vdeos?It can only play cmv vdeos.

  • Rarely had a problem with this Zen player, I have the 2gig for a few years now and it still works FINE. Great product Creative!!!

  • It's definitely good BUT, it's really weird with pc's. Having the device randomly not be recognized by your pc is incredibly common and is what happened to me. I would save your money on this one.

  • i always thinking what for is mp3/mp4 need for? if you buy mobile phone you can listen music too and call and more fun ..:D i dont understand :D

  • I am 99% sure that I will be asking politely for one of these for my birthday =D I just wanted to ask if anyone knows it you can save playlists on this player? Thanks =]

  • @muffin752 yup :D

  • Stupid idiot Don't you know how to open the plastic box?? -.-"

  • worst player ever

  • its the best player i have ever had. i love zen!!!

  • @detheuss what format of video can this receive i swear i have been converting to every different format and my zen never receives it im at my wit's end help meeee

  • @detheuss no way samsung galaxy player50 is way better search it up its amazing

  • mine will not turn on if anyone can help plz do thanks!

  • Those headphones were the best headphones I've ever listened music on.

  • Never creative anymore!!! i own the same mp4 player that lived 1 moth creative audio set for the computer lived 6 months and then a brand new one thet lives 4 months now i own a trust audio set and never problems with it, i hate creative!!!!

  • hi guys have you noticed that this mp3 reader does not have the volume buttons?? how is it possible and how can you turn the volume up and down?? ....

  • @Eric205gen When it's playing video or music, you press up or down on the square button to raise and lower the volume.

  • @Eric205gen it has volume buttons when u are listening to a song you hit up or down on the d pad

  • i borrowed the creative zen and loved it. gave it back. since my stroke i find it difficult to read now would love to have zenn to load audio books on so can listen to mp3 books. i did that on the one I borrowed . it worked gr8. think it would be good for me would love to have one if you still have one to give away. thx karen. i didnt understand where to go or how to do it go to a web site try win one.......fr stroke i didnt understand your instructions. thx. karen in nova scotia.

  • I have the ipod touch now, but this was the best mp3 i ever had. I fell on it and the screen cracked. It's still an awesome mp3 plaver. CRATIVE RULES!!!

  • WHY!! wont they put this back in stores?

  • when ur using the fm radio can u click the menu button or something and click on something like record radio or something like that?cause i noticed it said recordings under the playing area...please someone let me know asap...

  • @play08chris

    u can't record radio. You can record your voice though.

  • had 1 but it got crushed in my backpack :(

  • how do you get it to work on mac??

  • zen mx is with 16 gb or 32 gb

  • How do you create a playlist on the 8gb?!?! PLEASE help!

  • CREATIVE SUCKS! HE is frozen and don't help fucking restart!

  • @Jobkius That's what the reset button is for..

  • whats the diffrence between the zen and zen mx?????????????????

  • im a texan and no1 i know has such a thick accent besides my grandparents.

  • 199 or 1.99..

  • can you change the equalizer setting independantly? like you change the bass, the treble and its not just presets such as jazz or rock or pop?

  • seems like he's american ,fat hands lol

  • Got one for my birthday. Had for 2 years, and it can handle abuse very well!!! But...... accidentally went through the wash machine. It is broke. I am sad.

  • the button that u dont know what does.. the one u apalogised for is the shortcut button.. u can set it what to do.. jump to photos , music player , settings , radio.. etc..

  • I love the zen I have one and it's soooooo cool I love it better than the I pod

  • do i need to install anything to use it for music? because im thinking of getting one soon...can someone help me list the pros and cons about the creative zen?

  • @gundamfan100 No you dont i just got mine yesterday from my bro it took me like one houre to get use to this, n i must say i love this thing.

  • how about going to box opening lesson 101

  • my zen (8gb) screen is white help me

  • @mateenzafeer did u try upgrading the software..? i have link if u need..

  • hey my zen (8gb) screen is white some proplem plz help thx

  • Thanks

  • The battery life sucks

  • The only thing that pisses me off about this player is the fact that you can't set all your stored videos to play in a sequence, I have a bunch of music videos stored on it and I don't want to manually have to play each of them individually while I'm driving in my car. Does anyone know if it's possible to play all of the videos sequentially?

  • ugh havin some problems with mine, my device wont turn on, but when iconnect it to my computer, the blue light will flash but the screen still wont turn on =\

  • its cheaply made i had 3, get a sony walkman s639

  • @darthvad298  i think it has been fallen from you .... :s

  • I gots me a probbum.

    My Zen will connect to my computer, and the "What do you want to do with this device?" box comes up. When I select Zen Media Explorer or WMP, it says, "No device found." I can't put new music on my Zen!

    Halp.

  • @HarvestmanMan i had same problem, here is the solution.Go to my computer, click connected device or what ever pops up for you ( iots located underneath the hardrives) and then it will take you to the mp3's folder.From there copy and paste the videos or music or photos to the corresponding folder .hope that helps

  • i have it ( creative zen ) in my hands right now...

  • After some research I have discovered that the problem with the sync manager not recognising the Zen player is to do with windows media player 11, if you have older firmware and you have 11 you will have the problem the solution on XP is uninstall 11 and upgrade the Zen firmware, trouble is you cannot do this on win 7 because you cannot uninstall media player! so its up to creative to sort it out! (in other words throw the Zen in the bin and get an ipod!)

  • something has just occured to me! do you have to update the firmware on the media player so it works properly with the new windows 7 sync manager?

  • If you go to the website Creative now has software that supports Windows 7. Its called Creative Centrale software. I love this media player...and it DOES play videos which the software will format any video so that it will play on the player.

  • I tried that! installed it on the computer from the creative site and when I went to the sync manager it kept saying "there is no player connected" even though it was! on XP the sync manager would allow me to pull media from all over the pc most importantly from itunes! the sync manager simply doesn't recodnise the device when its plugged in! I was at it for hours! I may have to use my old laptop just to download podcasts!

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  • @Nefus2 but mine one is completely workin ....

  • @katakisLives Dude, this may be a good thing for me. I think that means the you don't have to sync the device. You can just copy over your video/audio files into a folder you create on the zen as it shows up as a drive in your win.explorer.

  • @AmaraKoreda I just found it really inconvenient the way I couldn't use the sync manager on Win 7 the way I'd done on XP for ages!, I'm past all this now I use Windows media player, I download the podcasts in iTunes then copy/paste to desktop and use the media player sync manager.

  • @katakisLives I am saying though, why do people bother with syncing at all? Wouldn't it be easier to download the podcast straight from the web browser, save it and copy it over to the mp3 player (drag and drop?) This way no conversion is needed and no need for itunes or media player. I have thousands of mp3s. If I want them onto my mp3 player, I simply drag and drop them to a folder on my mp3 player (coz it shows up like a drive). In fact, I can store any files (like office etc) on it.

  • @AmaraKoreda I use iTunes for my podcasts because its easier! its a one stop shop for all of them! its okay to download from browser if you only subscribe 2 a few podcasts but I have loads and loads from places like Cnet and 1up ect it would take ages going to different sites to collect them all! the best analogy is why go to a separate grocer's butcher's ect when you can get it all from one Supermarket iTunes is the podcast supermarket and syncing can make mass file transfers easier than 1 by1

  • @katakisLives have you heard of drag and drop ?

  • @denylach Yeah! I know about drag & drop! I copy/paste the files to the desktop then use Windows media player to get them onto the Zen player! I was just disappointed at the time that the sync manager that had worked so well on XP was useless on Win 7! its no longer an issue anymore.

  • @katakisLives chill

  • @denylach I'm good! that was never intended to come across as a rant, just an explanation, its hard to get that kind of thing across with only text.

  • it was a great device on XP shame the sync manager does'nt work on Windows 7

  • i got same ;D

  • My biggest disappointment with the Zen is that you cannot expand the memory using the SD card slot! whats the point in having an SD card slot if you cannot use it to directly expand the memory? it is a really bad oversight by the makers!

  • @katakisLives Personally I load the SD with movies and just the onboard for music.

  • The limitations of the SD functionality are the least of my Zen problems now! how about installing the sync manager on Win 7 only to find it doesn't detect the player even though the site calls it Win 7 compatible, forcing you to use Win media player (which seems to be responsible for the problem in the first place)

  • @katakisLives never worries me I never use the software a hardware company comes out with or adopt any OS before it's been out for at least 12 months.

  • Thats a very wise thing to do but if you buy a new computer with all the new software on it there's not much you can do about it! you are forced to make do.

  • @katakisLives which is why my biggest rule is never buy stock. any comp you buy custom you can choose your OS get the top of the line hardware and it still comes out to a similar price as a stock system unless you compare it to a mac then you save tons on the difference.

  • That's all very well if you know what you are doing! but building a PC from the ground up is miles outside my PC know how! if I went custom it would be a disaster!

  • @katakisLives gotta get yourself a geek friend. My hardware knowhow ends at recognizing components. But you'd be surprised how many people you meet that'll provide the labor side of building a PC just to get to play with good components which are easily affordable online. For that type saying I wanna build a core i7 system from scratch gets them hot and bothered.

  • I bought this one today bt I can't put videos on it

  • i'm having the same problem

  • I really love the player, It was better if it could play mp4 or something

  • hello is this a good player to watch full movies? I want a player which I can use for watching movies. is this a good player

  • yea ive a 32gb zen

  • can u hold down the arrow pad when scrolling throo things or do u gotta button mash it?

  • yeah you can just hold it down and scrolls pretty smooth,the longer you hold it the faster itll scroll

  • can you delete songs straight from the player?

  • yes!

    you can delete songs from the player

  • hi anybody knows how to put videos to this creative zen mx? I'm not so sure about it. i hope you could help. really appreciate it.

  • hahaha, this guy is so violent with the plastic

  • well i support u with your love to creative zen:) i have it and i'm delighted. full stop

  • i lost the cd to mine do you know any online downloads so i can download it on my computer?

  • Well it's a nice player and indeed i also use it every day. Maybe a nice hint to see if you can/want store some usefull books in there.

  • I've got one for Christmas 2008.And I use it everyday.

  • @TriopRC a mi tambien me lo regalaron en una navidad del 2008!!!! y lo uso sin parar es una de las mejores cosas que tengo

  • could some of u guys reply me a site with some theme´s and like for zen mx 8Gig

  • My computer is not detecting my mp3 player when I connect it. When I connect it (mp3 player) to the port, it makes the sound of a successful connection, but the Zen Media Explorer says it's not connected. Help!

  • You're suppose to register your zen online first before being able to connect to the comp for charging or adding musics

  • Thanx for your reply. . .its registered. My son has had his Zen for a year now, & it has worked fine until now.

  • I never registered my 4GB zen online and it never stopped me from charging and adding music and podcasts.

  • I have a 2 gb and it's awesome the other cool part is that u can use memo cards so i suggest if someone is looking for a player to buy this one any ways i got this one free xd

  • im thinking of buying this player, and i was wondering does it work with itunes? thanks

  • Should I get this or the Sony Walkman E-340?

  • i hade but i broke after one year :S

    LUCK i still hade the time to change now i have the Zen mx version 8 gig and i can't put videos on it pls help :S

  • im gonna get a Creative Zen 16 gig (=!

    And this review really made me choose it..!

  • I HAVE THIS ITS RIGHT NEXT TO ME!

  • has it Seagate Harddisk ?

  • They should tell you the sd card is worthless unless you buy two of them or more.

  • how do you mean??

  • @Candlegiglia , well it depends on how you use it. But if you want to be able to import the files from the sd card to the player, you have the single option to import all. So that means if you have a 4gb player with 8gb sd card, then there can't be more then 4gb data being stored on the sd card or you can't import all. I can't import anything from my sd card now i guess, because there's too much stored on it. So instead of 4+8=12 you would use 8.

  • @Solution2012 , so to effectively use 8gb and being able to import files would need 2 sd cards with both stored 4gb data on it. Well i copy/paste files now through pc so i don't need the options, but with creative options only wouldn't be that great. So i DO use 12gb but i can't copy anything without computer between sd card and player.

  • lol ok..thats sounds way to confusing for a technologically stunted mind like mine! :P lol got the iPod touch instead! :P lol its much better than what the creative sounds like!! :) lol thanks for the advise though, will keep in mind for the future :) happy new year!

  • i have an mp3 creative but it looks like a gps

  • can this mp3 play movies? please respond i wanna know

  • I got it today its great, best player I had so far and yes it can play movies avi xvid wmv and some other formats i think u need them to convert to 320x240 resolutio tho

  • Yeah

  • I have this its great had great battery last for hours but its full with only 386 songs so im getting the xfi 2

  • so buy a Sd card

  • Same- trust me the x-fi 2 is amazing, and the screen is so much better than people say.

  • i heard that you need to tap the screen multiple times to get it to work and its a bit frustrating that they dont provide a pen?? is that true? or does it come with a drag thingy like the iPod touch?

  • the only thing that you need to tap twice sometimes is the unlocking bubble, (if you buy it youll know what i mean) but with the new firmware its good

  • my display's backlight quit and is pretty much useless now. tried their support measures NG. No parts are offered, not in warr . I liked it for 1.5 years. Froze a lot. Support is very poor after warranty

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  • Would you buy this one or Creative Zen X-fi?? Please answear.. THanks...

  • This one

  • And could i know why?

  • This has been proven better especially in the C Net reviews. They are both the same but this one is a tiny bit better

  • and in which way is this better pls?

  • alot cheaper and touch screens get on your nerves (^.^)

  • what is the Sample video's title? :S its a indie rock :S

  • Thank you for posting this excellent review. It was the next best thing to me actually having the player in my hand.

    Much appreciated.

    Annette

  • Wow zen is so old??

  • This video is 2 years old. Lmao So yeah, it's somewhat old. :)

  • You took this video in a bathroom am I right??

  • no. It was done in my office 2 years ago.

  • man u got all kinds of players

  • i think its good i read all comments about CREATIVE ZEN and i think its really good i wana buy it i seaching mp4 i think it to me ;D

  • 8GB?

  • is it speaker on it?