Creative MediaSource playback probl

So, after a few months of trouble-free use, I run into some troubles. Essentially what's happening is I'll be playing a song in MediaSource Organizer or Player and after a minute or two, one of my speakers will cut out or the song will stop playing altogether.
I've already tried re-installing the program to no avail. I'm thinking it doesn't completely uninstall the program because when I uninstall and re-install, my last playlist from before I removed the program is still listed. I tried re-installing the sound drivers, too. I know it's nothing wrong with my speakers or soundcard because both still work flawlessly in any other program. Winamp, for example, allows me to play music without any hindrances. Except I'd rather use MediaSource because I like the layout better and I have more options with it.
So I guess I'm asking: does anybody know what's going on, here? Is there anyway I can COMPLETELY uninstall MediaSource (because I have a sneaking suspicion that not everything's being uninstalled), or simply make this problem go away?

mcBoyt wrote:
I have been having problems with MediaSource for ages now and wondered if anyone on here could help :-)
Everytime I close the application it crashes and I can't seem to fix it. Kept happening with MS3 so have now swapped to MS5 and have the same problem. Have also tried reinstalling it several times with the same problem coming back each time. I did think it might be a clash with another program but have just reinstalled Windows XP Pro and installed MS5 onto a clean system but still get the crash on exit.
Anyone any ideas or similar experiences know a solution or should I just switch to WMP WinAmp. I have a Zen Touch 20GB with latest firmware.
Cheers,
MARK
(PS. Also think it is a bit cheeky that after paying a couple of hundred for my Zen I am now expected to pay a tenner to use MP3 software from Creative which to be honest most other companies provide free.)
I believe you have one of the Audigy 2 series of sound card. Am I right? If so, please update to the latest drivers of your sound card. It should fix the crashing problem when MediaSource is closed.

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Error message "Could not load TimeScale Filter" on Creative MediaSourc

Whenever I attempt to listen to a playlist, I get an error message. The message title is: Creative MediaSource\Playback Queue. The text of the message is:? Exception -- Create object: Exception: Object Not Found from: CTimeScaleFilter Message:"Could not load TimeScale Filter" At: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:3:29 PM. (Very informati've!)? What is the TimeScaleFilter and where can I find it's? This message pops up at the beginning of every playlist. I have to click on the "OK" button several times before the message disappears, and the list starts to play. Then, when the next song starts, the error message pops up again, which makes the player basically useless. Thanks in advance to anyone who knows what the problem is and can help me fix it. Oh how I wish I still had my Musicmatch program. Thanks to Yahoo, Musicmatch no longer exists. I hope that Yahoo suffers the same fate; but that's another story.

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Hey, i just recieved my refurbished Zen Micro from creative, and my Creative MediaSource Organizer wont wont.(It used to work on my old zen micro when i first got it, but then after a while, the organizer wont even open). So i uninstalled all creative programs i had, and reinstalled them using the Zen Micro Installation Disc. The computer can detect my Micro and i can put songs on through Zen Media Explorer. But it was much more convinent to use Organizer. Got any ideas? Thanks.
p.s. when i click on MediaSource Organizer, it says it cannot find CTCMS.exe and before i re-installed it, i clicked the icon and nothing happened.

isomaltasa wrote:
SiRe
Zen Xtra 30G
I have the same problem. I have actualized my Zen Xtra with the firmware: 2.0.03 and the Creative Mediasource doesn't recognize the Zen Xtra since then.
I have the latest mediasource ( 3.30.2 ), which requires windows xp sp2 (that I have).
The compluter explorer does recognize it, but not the organizer, so it is awful trying to organize songs.
Do I need another version of MediaSource?
Can I organize songs with Windows Media Player? because it only recognizes it to sincronize, but not to change the name of the songs and so on.
Help!!! Please!!
Thanks
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For PlaysForSure Zen Xtra: Download and install the Creative Software Suite for PlaysForSure-enabled Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra Players.

Ongoing Creative MediaSource Probl

I've been having a lot of problems with?my Audigy 2 ZS' Creative MediaSource applications, whenever I would attempt to open any Creative MediaSource application I would be denied access and?then receive a Microsoft error message. I just attempted to uninstall and then reinstall the Creative MediaSource software after my?PC was?rebooted into?a clean state but yet I am still encountering the same problems as before, I thought that this would be a sure fix for my problem but I guess I was wrong. What options do I have left?

mcBoyt wrote:
I have been having problems with MediaSource for ages now and wondered if anyone on here could help :-)
Everytime I close the application it crashes and I can't seem to fix it. Kept happening with MS3 so have now swapped to MS5 and have the same problem. Have also tried reinstalling it several times with the same problem coming back each time. I did think it might be a clash with another program but have just reinstalled Windows XP Pro and installed MS5 onto a clean system but still get the crash on exit.
Anyone any ideas or similar experiences know a solution or should I just switch to WMP WinAmp. I have a Zen Touch 20GB with latest firmware.
Cheers,
MARK
(PS. Also think it is a bit cheeky that after paying a couple of hundred for my Zen I am now expected to pay a tenner to use MP3 software from Creative which to be honest most other companies provide free.)
I believe you have one of the Audigy 2 series of sound card. Am I right? If so, please update to the latest drivers of your sound card. It should fix the crashing problem when MediaSource is closed.

Creative MediaSource will not play certain MP3

I have a Creative Audigy 2 NX with a remote that I really want to be able to use. Programs such as GIRDER, WinLIRC, and uICE do not support the RM-500 remote control.
I can't figure out how to control the remote beyond editing and creating key files that send ASCII commands, but the problem with that is I cannot control programs that are not currently acti've. In other words, I cannot control winamp if I'm playing a game with my remote, which is what I want to do. The KEY files are structured as this:[KeyEvent690 etc]KeyName=whateveryouwantdisplayedNotification=- or 2 or 4KeyEventRemap=this is the important partHandleByApp=i don't know what this doesAnyway, if I set notification to -, I can send ASCII commands-- BUT these will not send to programs not currently on top. If I set notification to 2, as Creative did in their Winamp .x key file, I could control the program even if it is not on top-- BUT I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE KeyEventRemaps NUMBERS SHOULD BE. I cannot find this information, and I have tested as far as I am capable of doing manually (tested numbers through 500 MANUALLY).So what I want to be able to do is use my remote to control winamp, but that is impossible. And Creative MediaSource will not play streaming audio (for God knows why...). So what I decided to do was record to an MP3 player with a third party program and play that MP3 in the Creative MediaSource software (the built-in recorder will NOT work, as I cannot structure that into a playlist nor can I play the recording media nor can I minimize the program and mute the feedback-- I can only record if I'm playing, and this doesn't work). The first problem I encountered was several programs would not output MP3s that were playable as they were being recorded, however I finally did find one. This program, 3aLab iRadio, allows the MP3 to be played back WHILE simultaneously being recorded. The only problem is that this the Creative MediaSource software will NOT play the mp3. Out of the 5 different MP3 players I tested, ONLY the Creative MediaSource software would not playback the MP3 as being written. I cannot figure this out, and I am at a loss as to what to do next. I realize that Creative won't support streaming audio with their player, MediaSource, but what I like to do is listen to streaming internet radio as an item on my mp3 playlist in winamp. I wish to be able to control this with my remote, but as I cannot find ANY WAY out there to control my remote as I wish without further information, this is a dead end. My alternati've is to use the Creative software for which the remote was designed to work, but unfortunately this does not support streaming internet radio nor does it support MP3s that are being written to. This is driving me insane.
What I want to be able to do is have a playlist that I control with my remote, with the first item on the list being internet radio, the 2nd and such on down being MP3s. In winamp, this is doable, as well as in Windows Media Player, and most MP3 players out there. Since I cannot do this in Creative's software, I need a workaround alternati've. PLEASE.
So, in conclusion, is there anyone out there who can either tell me how to control my remote directly by identifying what the notification=2 keyeventremap=configuarions are, give me a program like girder however which supports the RM-500 remote, or tell me how to get MP3s that are being written to (aka incomplete) to play in the Creative MediaSource software?
Thank you very much for your time.
Message Edited by PzyX on 0-5-2005 08: PM

Sky_Blue wrote:
Hey ppl. I own a Zen neeon which i bought in Hong Kong. I can't play any of the tracks and i don't know why. Can i still transfer them to my mp3 or will they not work?
I am afraid that you need to provide more detail steps of your problem.Message Edited by micromouse on 0-04-2006 0:52 AM

Cannot play audio CD with Creative MediaSource Pla

Hi All,
I recently installed an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum soundcard and the Creative MediaSource Player software. I also purchased Creative 5. Analog speakers. Have everything configured pretty well now and really enjoying the enhanced sounds!
My problem is that I cannot play audio CDs using the MediaSource Player. I can see my DVD Player and CD Player in the MediaSource Player 'Source' column and a list of all the tracks on the CD. (no track info, just track numbers and length)
When I double-click on a track it cycles through all the tracks and then places an 'X' next to each one in the 'Now Playing' list window. If I have other music files from my harddri've available, it will start playing one of them.
I've tried different CDs with the same results.
I can use both the DVD and CD dri'ves to play an audio CD if I use any other player (Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc.) and use both dri'ves everyday for loading software and reading files. It will also read the demo DVD Audio disk that came with the card using the DVD-Audio player they provide so I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with the hardware or drivers.
I've read all the info that came with the card and on the Creative Web site and have been through every configuration screen multiple times but haven't found a switch that turns this feature on.
Would like to get this working so I can standardize on one player that allows me to use all the advanced features of my new card.
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.
Jay Perez

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My creative mediasource player won't play

bought creative x-fi card about 2 months ago and with it came creative mediasource player.
it played any formats, avi mpeg jsut fine, now about a week ago it stoped playing avi format, the black playback screen won't come on, but mpeg still plays fine. also i have morpheus installed... it also only played mpegs now and when i try avi it gives me one of those backgrounds jsut like on xbox when u play music, screensaver type... i tried to repair windows/ reinstall, problem remains... updated mediasource still nothing, but i don't think is creative but something else... cause morpheus stoped working at the same time, anyone encountered this problem and have any idea how to fix it's?? i need help plz

nah i went through windows media player and updated it, with some new codecs and then also updated codecs from microsoft site still the problem persists, i keep getting no playback screen for avi files in creative media cource player/ morpheus/ or windows media player

Not sure what Lame is??? does Creative media explorer & Creative mediaSource Oganizer use mp3 LA

I'm thinkin' about movin' over to Lame mp3 encoding, (right now i'm using wma 92) I'm not sure what lame is.
everyone is using mp3 format, so i said to my self "eeeh just forget about wma and join the croud".
so i wanna move over to mp3 format (Lame encoding what ever that is.)
What i wanted to know is, does creative media explorer have mp3 lame encoding?
does creative mediaSource Oganizer have lame encoding also?
what bit rate should i use for mp3 format? (I like it to be good sound quality)
thanks in advance
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Message Edited by collegeboy on 05-3-2005 07:45 PM

Collegeboy, you have several threads going on this same subject all of which together give a pretty good picture of lame vs other mp3 encoders vs wma. I know your posts in the past promote wma and that is your choice, but if you want to research this topic, visit HydrogenAudio or head-fi forums and enjoy the postings of the socalled audiophiles and true audio geeks :-)
I know that versions of lame are not all equal and that the latest version 3.96. with the right switches, is about 40% faster than previous versions and is as accurate in keeping as much of the original as it can in its encode.
Fraunhofer (Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen Germany where they invented mp3 and hold patents) has a couple of major versions. The standard version that packages like Creative and MusicMatch use, is the FHIIs version. There is I think, a Professional Version too but that costs big bucks to license (as opposed I guess to little bucks for IIs) and note lame is free! FHIIS uses a noise reduction scheme to brickwall above 6kHz or something like that number. If you look at Lame encoded music in a frequency analysed mode, using the preset standard or preset extreme switches you can see the Lame encoding follows the original right up to 9kHz and higher and the FHIIs encoding drops off at 6KHz. That much difference is noticeable if you have the right playback equipment.
There was a comment in one of the threads you started on this, that this whole topic could be contentious. Well it is and is so subjecti've too as some folks could never tell the differences, some would never listen to their music so they could tell the difference, some would never listne to compressed music if their life depended on it and the story goes on.
OK with all this?
MA Sonjariv

Trouble with Creative Mediasource

I'm using the latest driver (2.0.00) And Firmware (2.0.03), and CMS5 5.0.38, with the plugins for Zen and the PlaysForSure. My system us Windows XP, SP2, and I meet the minimum system reqs for the program.
Since "upgrading" to Creative MEdiasource 5, I've run into several problems, perhaps all interconnected.
--Mediasource takes an incredibly long time to load my Zen (40 GB Zen Xtra), upwards of 3 minutes. This took only a few seconds in previous versions. This is present when connected through my front, back and USB hub ports.
--Mediasource will rip a CD incredibly slowly. If I try to transfer more than one CD (That is, one, the procedure ends, and then start up another), I will get an error message and MEdiacsource will shut down.
--Sometimes, the window itself will disappear, and I will be unable to access it. This has happened a couple of times instead of the previous problem. The process will still run, but I will be unable to reload it, and trying to forcibly end the process (Task Manager) seems not to work. This also happens sometimes when I browse away from my Zen (Say, to a CD or file on my computer), and come back to my Zen.
I tried using my prior version, but it doesn't recognise my Playsforsure device at present, and I'm not sure if it's even possible to alter it.
Is anyone else having a similar problem? I loved Mediasource prior to this version: It was a sleek, easy and intuiti've interface and covered almost all of my Organisation needs. I did check the boards, but I may have missed a similar problem. I'm wondering if this is an issue that people have a solution to.
Any help's appreciated.

Hello:
I have formatted the player using the recovery menu as well as with WMP, because both are the recommended and "only" ways to format, depending on who you listen to. No difference, however in the way WMP behaves. When I get to the point where WMP can only sync a small few files, if I do a Cleanup (from rescue mode), let the Nomad rebuild the library, I can usually get more files in before it clogs up again. Every time I do a fresh format, I lose a couple of days worth of work, so I'm not doing it again.
I don't have any way to control how much of the library to synchronize once it has gotten past my playlists, unless I spend time creating more playlists for this purpose. With a 60 G Nomad, and a library suitable for that storage, that's a TON of music to deal with.
I'm still trying to figure out whether this is a Windows Media Player issue, a driver issue, or a Nomad firmware issue. Since I have to reset the Nomad between each sync attempt, and occasionally do a cleanup, I'm guessing it's the Nomad, and since I've seen it on more than one unit, I'm guessing it's a firmware bug.
I'm hoping someone else has seen this issue and has a better idea. I hate all my choices: Notmad is frustrating because I can't get my playlists to come across. Creative Media Source is less reliable than WMP, so that leaves WMP as the least aggravating way to sync, and it works flawlessly with my smaller sized Sansa Clip from the same library.
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Creative Mediasource Organizer Losing Year T

I use Windows XP, Creative Mediasource Organizer version 3.30.35 and my player is a Zen MicroPhoto 8G. I have over 4000 MP3 files organized with id tags in Creative Mediasource Organizer. These are almost exclusivly?MP3 files that I recorded myself. Of the 4000 files?there are only a handful, just?one album that could possibly find tag information?to pull from the internet. Yesterday,?more than?200 of my mp3 files?had blank?year tags. I entered the correct year in several dozen of these so that only about 65 had blank year tags. Then I closed the software and turned of my computer. Today I opened Creative Mediasource Organizer to work on filling in those blank year tags. There were over 400 blank year tags today. What is happening? I have PC Music Library open. I select a single file, right click, click properties, click tag information, enter the year in the year field, click OK. Then I right click and select "update tag" click "yes" to confirm that I want the changes to apply to the file itself and not just to the PC Media Library. Please, someone help me understand why?the number of blank year tags is growing instead of shrinking? What can I do to retain the information I enter in these tags?

YESTERDAY:?Monday March 2, 2007:?I edited my media library from within Creative MediaSource so that there are no files without a valid year in the year tag. For?each MP3 file the other standard tags also contain meaningful data. These are?title, artist, album and?genre,?but not track. I don't see any practical way to use the track field for some of these files, so not all of them have a track number. The files I want in my media library are all the MP3 and WMA files within C:/MP3 and it's subfolders. The properties of C:/MP3 as viewed from "My Computer" are 3922 files and 249 folders. About a dozen are WMA files and one is a text file. All the others are MP3 files. The problem is that?there are quite a number of duplicate entries. And the Media Library is reporting several hundred more files within C:/MP3?than "My Computer" is reporting there.
I used "Tools/Settings/PC Media Library/ Delete invalid entries" but it did NOT remove the duplicate entries. Exiting the program and opening it again did not correct the count either. So I selected ALL the files, right clicked, and selected "update tags." I clicked YES to update the tag data from the media library to the files. When that operation was completed, I deleted all the files from the library but not from the computer. And?now I am?importing all the files within C:/MP3?back into the library. It says "now transferring 859 of 3920 files." This is good! 3920 is very close to 3922 minus the one text file. I want to see if, when this transfer is finished, I will have the correct number of MP3 files in my media library, and I want to see if the tag data, including the year data, remains?intact after this transfer. The transfer is complete. I do have 3920 files in my media library now and the data in the id tags appears to be intact. Hopefully, this will still be the case when I open the software tomorrow. THE NEXT DAY:?Tuesday, March 3, 2007: Grrr! I now have 3950 files in my media library where it should be only 3920. I did not add anything ?or make any edits. Exactly 30 of these entries?have blank year fields. I'm thinking that Creative MediaSource is NOT?loosing the data in year tags as I first thought, rather it's ADDING entries that are identical to existing entries except that the year fields in the added entries are empty. I think that if I enter the correct year data, I will end up with 30 entries that are truly exact duplicates. I don't see a pattern or clue to tell me why these 30 and not the others ... they have different artists, different albums, genres and the data in the missing year fields was not all the same. In the track fields, a few are blank, but most of them have data. "Tools/Settings/PC Music Library/Clean up now" did not elimiinate these 30 extra entries. Looking at the properties of C:/MP3 from "My Computer" still shows 3922 files (one is a text file) ... From my experiments yesterday, I am pretty sure that I can delete these 30 extra entries and be left with valid entries for all my files. This is frustrating. I'm hoping that these observations will be helpful to a programmer working on the next version of Creative MediaSource. I would send these comments directly to them, but they don't seem to provide a way for me to do that.

Creative MediaSource won't recognize my Zen Micro all of the sudden!! What is going o

When I first began using my Zen Micro, Creative MediaSource worked fine. I could start my player and it recognized it right away. Then I was told I had to update my firmware and download an update to MediaSource. I did both but shortly thereafter I started having problems! Primarily, when i plug in my Micro a window pops up where I have 3 options, none of which are Creative MediaSource. The window has "MTP Media Player" across the top bar, but i havn't a clue what the "MTP" stands for. The 3 options given are "Sync your music using Napster", "Synchronize media files to this device using Windows Media Player", and "Take no action". I initialy tried "Take no action" and then opened MediaSource only to find it didn't recognize my Micro any more. I then e-mailed Creative for help and got a reply telling me to.............
Thank you for contacting Creative Technical Support.
In regards to your issue, you can try uninstall and reinstall
MEdiaSource with these procedures.
. Click START -> RUN -> type MSCONFIG and click OK.
2. Click SELECTIVE STARTUP and then uncheck LOAD STARTUP GROUP ITEMS.
3. Apply the changes and reboot the computer when prompted.
4. Uninstall MediaSource from the system using ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS.
5. Manually delete the MediaSource folders from the computer system :
C:\PROGRAM FILES\CREATIVE\MEDIASOURCE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\CREATIVE\CTCDDB
C:\PROGRAM FILES\CREATIVE\MEDIA MANAGER
C:\MEDIA\MUSIC
6. Right-click your My Computer icon and click Properties.
7. Click the Hardware tab and then click Device Manager.
8. Remove any listings for Creative NOMAD products in the Device
Manager
(they will most likely be located in the Uni'versal Serial Bus
Controllers category).
9. If you have a category call Other Devices, look for listings in
there
called USB Device. If you have any, remove them.
0. Install MediaSource only from the original installation CD.
NOTE: DO NOT OPEN MEDIASOURCE WHILE PERFORMING THESE PROCEDURES.
Also, you can try reloading the Zen Micro's firmware through recovery
mode.
Move and hold the Power button to the Power On position and re-insert
the battery to the Zen Micro. Hold the Power button until the rescue
mode appears.
Clean Up: Performs a disk scan on the players hard disk
Format: Formats the players hard disk All contents will be lost
Reload OS: Reloads the Operating System on the Jukebox. Do not select
this option unless you have downloaded the firmware. Reloading your OS
will not effect the contents of the files stored on your Jukebox Zen
Reboot: Reboots the device
Please attempt the options 'Reboot' and 'Clean Up' first. If they do
not
help, you must try 'Reload OS'. To do this, you must have a downloaded
firmware from our website ready. Please let us know the results after
these steps, as soon as possible.
For faster service please reply with previous correspondence when
replying to this email.
Best Regards,
Technical Support
Creative Labs Americas
"Get Creative"
I followed the directions, but 3 of the folders listed in step 5 didn?t exist (only C:\PROGRAM FILES\CREATIVE\MEDIASOURCE did), there were no Creative NOMAD products listed as in step 8, and there was no ?Other Devices? as stated in step 9. I did everything else for all the steps through step 0.
I then re-installed Creative MediaSource from the CD only to find it still didn?t recognize my player! I?ve now done this twice with the same results!
Zen Micro Media Explorer doesn?t even recognize my Micro when it'ss plugged in! It just keeps saying ?The device is not connected. Please connect your Zen Micro to the computer?.
I?m hardly a tech expert, but it seems to me that something on my PC is detecting my player and decieding for itself that the only 2 programs it will let manage my Zen Micro are Napster and Windows Media Player. If this is the case where do I go from here?!?!
Moderator Note: Removed the name of the Email Advisor. Please do this in the future when posting email responses from Creative.Message Edited by Jason-CL on 07-2-2005 02:05 PM

LakeTahoeGuy,
Just as SSR mention, if you're using v2.xx.xx (MTP) firmware then you will need to get the correct version of Media Explorer that support this firmware and also install the MTP plugin for MediaSource. Both the software and plugin are available from the site SSR mention.
Jason

Creative MediaSource Playlist to Winamp Playl

Hello, I'm just wondering if it is possible to take a Creative MediaSource Organizer playlist and turn it into a playlist that can be used in Winamp. I don't really like using anything other than Winamp to play music, and I don't feel like recreating all of my playlists (I have a LOT of them) into playlists that can be read by Winamp. Thanks for the help and answers :-).

, I would suggest using the Zen Media Explorer for your device to make & edit playlists. It is on the install disc. MediaSource is not that good. Of all the Creative software the Zen Media Explorer for each player is one I do use often for this reason.

Creative MediaSource and ID3 t

Creative MediaSource doesn't seem to update it's internal database from ID3 tags. For example I ripped a CD and MediaSource failed to get the year of the album. So, I added the information to the Id tags using Winamp. I reimported the file into MediaSource but it still fails to display the year correctly. Does Mediasource ignore ID tag information accept to overwrite it's
Thanks,
ZP

Thanks, yes that worked. It's a nuisance that the updating doesn't occur automatically but it's much better than not working at all.
ZP

Creative MediaSource can't seem to see audio C

Thank you in advance and I apologize if there's a solution posted somewhere that I couldn't find. I tried.
I have a Nomad Jukebox Zen Extra that I bought a year or so ago. Works great, I love it. I've always used the software that came with it, Creative MediaSource, to move songs from CDs to my computer and then to the Zen Extra.
But today I got on and Creative Mediasource seemed to have uninstalled itself. None of the shortcuts worked. So after several tries of re-installing, it seems to be back.
Except formerly, when I would have MediaSource up and put in a CD, it would immediately list Track , Track 2, etc. (and I would later use the web thing to get the names). If for some reason it didn't, I would go over to the Sources column, click on the CR-R line and then the Track , Track 2, etc would come up in the center column.
But now nothing shows up in the center column. So I can't rip the CDs to the computer. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the result is the same. Here's one thing I noticed: I accidentally left the installation CD in and when I click on that CD dri've, the list of folders immediately shows up in that center column. So it's seeing the dri've, and that CD, but not my audio CDs for some reason.
Can you please help? I guess from looking at this forum there are other software packages to use to rip CD and move music around, but this is the one I'm used to and it seems a waste to just toss it away and start with something else. Plus all my previously ripped music is in that PC Music Library folder.
Thank you in advance for whatever help you can give me. As you can tell, I'm not real savvy on all this and I've already wasted most of my Saturday on it.

http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/itunes/importing-audio-cds/
With it were easier to do what you want but it's not.

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I have a Zen Touch and I have it for a year now but I had installed Creative mediasource a time ago again and now he doesn't find my mp3 player. But my Windows Media Player detects it and with WMP I can put music on my zen touch but not with CMS and I like to do it with CMS. I have installed all drivers and now I don't know what to do. Can anybody help?
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