How do you ruin a ZEN, You turn it into a ZEN MX

Dear Sir, Are you a complete set of idiots. If I wanted to buy an Apple Itouch I would have done when I was visiting Hong Kong, I did in fact buy one for my wife as she likes Apple. Then My Creative ZEN Died on the flight back from Hong Kong. So I went out and replaced with a ZEN MX thinking it would be just like my old much loved ZEN. But boy have you screwed it up big time. But I had a simple Creative ZEN I have loved and carried around the world with me. It was simple and it never tried to control me like an Apple Ipod. My people I know love Creative MP3 players because they do not act like Apple and take control out of your hands. My old Zen had a wonderful function that I could drag and drop folders of music onto the SD card and could listen to them AS I WANTED TO LISTEN TO THEM. Now my new ZEN MX wants to TAKE CONTROL OF MY LIFE AND SORT EVERY THING INTO A LIBRAY. If I wanted to do this I would buy and apple and let it take over my life. PLEASE PLEASE tell me there is a simple fit to playing music from a folder like the old simple ZEN. If not I will have to post this ZEN MX back to you and go buy an APPLE ITOUCH instead. I like to make folders of my own music and with my old Zen could just copy to my SD card and listen to the music I like and play it the way I like. I am 45 years of old and have an extensi've music collection of around 4500CDS, the classical collection is around 000. Then I have my Audio Book Collection and my downloads from the BBC Iplayer. All I want is to play folders, I don't use Playlist and I don't do music styles. If this problem can't be fixed and I can't listen to a folder without making a Library, then I am soon to be an EX CREATIVE USER and be an Apple user. Regards John I long time creative user, but maybe not for long.

rkelly wrote:
I completely agree. I've been a Creative customer but when my Zen failed I bough a Zen MX thinking it would be as simply as the original to operate regarding the transfer of music. They really screwed up by changing my preferences during the transfer. I don;t understand why they don'y have an update option that lets the MX user continue to use Media Explorer. The Creative Central software was a big mistake and will cost them loyal customers. I'm waiting for an email response from their tech support and if they can't help me I'm sending my MX back to Amazon. Unfortunately I hate the thought of buying an Ipod but it is USER FRIENDLY. Also hate the idea of no telephone or even chat support. SHAME ON THEM.
I went from a ZEN Micro to the ZEN MX. It was fine when I only had less that GB of music and only one playlist. At that point it was easy just to tolerate the clumsiness of Creative Centrale. My only problem is, I have now had the player for almost two years, and I finally started loading large quantities of music onto it. Now I'm finding that many of the features I loved about my Micro (namely, nati've sync compatibility with Windows Media Player) are non-existent, and that Centrale is nothing more than a cobbled-together piece of software for converting playlists into antiquated file types (DOS 8.3 ShortFileName). If I hadn't gotten this player as a gift 9and had the extra cash) I would seriously consider replacing it with the new ZEN Style, which has finally done away with the Centrale software and has gone back to the tried and true drag-and-drop sync method.

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