Creative media source problems!!! plz h

I am having issues with the creative media source program.
every time i attempt to transfer mp3 files to the player the program crashes and i have to close the program and start over. i get one file on ok but after that it crashes. i cant find an update to the program on the website. please let me know what i should do
thanks.Message Edited by chefschafer on 2-03-2004 06:53 AM

I am also having the same problem and I thought about reinstalling Media Source (I have thet latest version), my only fear is that I have almost 3000, which are backed on an external dri've, but these songs are all?TAGGED, rated and?all have album art, am I going to lose all this info if I reinstall Media Source?Also, do I have to uninstall first and then reinstall and just install over the previous version?

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Yes I realize that--I'm thinking more specifically that CMS5 doesn't play well with SP3? The problem with your solution is that I don't like WMP. At least, I don't like the fact that you can't play your music straight from your device. You have to sync your device and copy all of your music onto your hard dri've to play from the device connected to the computer. That was mainly what I used CMS5 for--playing music directly from my device through the computer?without having to copy all of its contents onto my hard dri've. I keep my music stored on my Zen Microphoto so it doesn't take up space on my computer...
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