Zen doesn't play .m4a encoded with Nero AAC encoder = Creative, please create a firmware f

The Zen doesn't play AAC encoded with Nero's AAC encoder, which is unfortunate since it's the best one out there. It does, however, support iTunes-encoded AAC. There was a brief discussion on it elsewhere, but I'd like to focus the discussion here on:. Request for firmware fix by Creative, so the Zen will read the files: ple2. A fix to get the files to play in the current firmware?Many of the references in this forum to wishlists, tools etc. are dead links, so hopefully?this thread will generate some answers for those of us out there with sizeable Nero AAC-encoded?music libraries.

Very Good!!
I'd just like to report that m4a files made with winamp and then repackaged with your application have a problem in fast forward and rewind. That is, (Sorry for my English, please try to understand) when you fast forward to a point, the player correctly jumps to the desired point, but, after that, the playback bar starts again from 00:00:00, even if the player is in the middle of the song.
Anyway, this doesn't corrupt playback quality and doesn't create audio gaps; moreover, it just happens with the zen, while winamp works correctly.

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