Micro Zen Qusti

Hi
I apologise in advance if this is the wrong thing/place to ask.
I will be buying a zen micro soon, i hope.
i just wanted to clear a few things up...
.Am i right in thinking that pretty much any MP3 can be transferred straight to the zen micro.
i.e. the zen micro is not exclusi'vely for ripping tracks off a CD or for transferring music from a website like napster.
2. Is there a hold or lock function>
3.does it except characters other than english?
4.does windows media player allow for quick and easy drag and drop for mp3s into the zen micro (providing you have WMP0 W-XP and firmware v.2)
thanks in advance
makihara
p.s. if this is the wrong place to ask could someone point out where i should ask

hey
thanks very much for your response
as for charcaters i would like it to recognice japanese kanji characters
i mean yes i can change the name but thats quite laborious
What's more the artist, album, genre name etc. is also all in japanese
so i'd need to use WMP advanced tag editor to change evry single piece of data for each song
I'm still going to buy a micro zen though
thanks again
makihara

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So, thats the back story. What do I do now? Other than hit my mp3 player with a hammer or otherwise break something out of frustration....

Bear with me as I lay out the problems/sequence of events:
- Got excited over the MTP support and upgraded. My laptop stopped recognizing the Zen
- Creative support thought that my MP0 maybe hosed; so I rollback and install MP0 again. No resolution.
- Went into to 'rescue mode' and wiped the disk clean
- Installed the old firmware; my laptop recognized the Zen
I pressed on and connected my Zen to a desktop and upgraded the firmware to MTP support (v2.x)
- I was able to sync with MP0 but frequently experienced problems with 'hang' during sync after 00%
- I disconnected the unit and MP0 aborted the sync
- Reconnect and sync would hang at the exact same song. Further, I noticed the following:
- Songs would sync up very fast (noticed around 800KB/S)
- The problem song would experience startup problems and would hang after reaching 00%
- I deleted the 'problem' song (which plays fine in MP0) and 'sync' continued without problems
- Created a playlist in MP0 which synced OK; but the Playlist is missing in Zen!!
Summary:
I think Creative released the f/w too early.

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Hold on a second people. Every manufacturer builds their products with some amount of durability in mind. Being able to take a short drop IS a part of that. Surly its not meant to be dropped, but manufacturers know we dont li've in a perfect world, so they take a little of that into account when building their products. Some of you guys act as if its EXPECTED to stop functioning after a small drop, and on a cusion at that.
By the way, i see your problem as a freak accident or something.

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I know this topic has been beaten to death on the board and I've read and reinstalled etc but I'm seriously at a loss.
I got my Micro Zen player today and set it up. I installed the software and then plugged it in and got that annoying "device has malfunctioned and cannot be detected blah blah blah" message that everyone seems to get. So I uninstalled everything, reinstalled it tried again. No luck. I download the drivers and installed those, no luck, tried to reinstall the drivers on the CD, no luck. My sister got an identical mp3 player so I tried hers with the same result, tried using the cord that came with hers, tried using the CD that came with hers, tried using my digital camera's cord, tried multiple USB ports. I've probably tried a few other things but I've been working at this since this morning. Ick.
I haven't tested it on another computer, but I don't think that will make a difference. I need it specificlly on this computer (seeing as it's the only windows computer we own, the other is a fi've-year old iMac). And I don't think it's an issue with the player or cord since I'm getting the same result with two different players.
I'm running a Windows XP OS on a Dell computer that's under six month old.
Does anyone have an suggestions? <EM>Please?</EM> It would be muchly appreciated. If you feel the inclination, my screen name on AIM is x the lovelyLIZ. I'll have an away message up but if you could just leave a suggestion there I would eternally grateful. Or replying to this post work great too :smileytongue:
Thank you so much.

meika wrote:
I got my Micro Zen player today and set it up. I installed the software and then plugged it in and got that annoying "device has malfunctioned and cannot be detected blah blah blah" message that everyone seems to get.
Certainly not everyone! It's a rare error...
I haven't tested it on another computer, but I don't think that will make a difference. I need it specificlly on this computer (seeing as it's the only windows computer we own, the other is a fi've-year old iMac). And I don't think it's an issue with the player or cord since I'm getting the same result with two different players.
Chance are it's a USB compatibility problem. Check for motherboard BIOS updates, and USB chipset updates. Alternati'vely get a PCI USB2 card and fit that, they aren't expensi've.

Problems with my Creative Micro Zen hanging on the Creative Logo Scr

I've been having problems with my Zen and have sent the following email to creative but if any one has any suggestions etc on what to do could they please email me thanks
My Creative Micro Zen 5GB player has been hanging whilst using the player.
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However the player hung again and so I tried to rest it as before, when I replace the battery the player turned on and lights up with the Creative logo screen, but then hangs on the Creative logo screen, despite waiting to see if the player continued with the start-up, it did not and so then I tried resetting again, by removing the battery and reinstalling it.
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I found the solution! I saw numerous posts saying that all you could do is send it back to the company, then I found this one:
Hi All,
My zen has been down for the last week, hangs up on creative screen. I took the battery out and was able to get to the recovery mode but "disc scan" would not do anything(in limbo) and "reboot "met with the same result, nothing. If you want to talk to anyone at creative and are past your 6 month warranty window you have to pay $20 for the phone call. Well I decided to take matters into my own hands and spent yesterday morning researching old threads about this problem. I kept finding an uncommon fix. When you hold your power button on and replace you battery and the recovery screen starts up you wrap on the back with your knuckle, in my case I hit my zen face down sharply on my dresser. To my amazement the "Doobie Brothers" started playing and I have'nt had any problems yet. Evidently these systems have a hard dri've that hangs up. It may not work for you but it cured my glitch.
Steve C.
It worked for me, but only after four or fi've tries. Good Luck!<IMG height=6 src="http://forums.americas.creative.com/i/smilies/6x6_smiley-very-happy.gif" width=6 border=0>

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Micro Zen - Ho bisogno di ai

Questo il mio messaggio di aiuto:
Dopo aver ricaricato Micro Zen non ? pi? ripartito. Si accende, poi lo schermo si spegne ed ? come piantato. Non da pi? segno di vita. Rimane la scritta CREATIVE ma la luce si spegne e cos? rimane fino all'esaurimento della carica. Se lo attacco al pc, non viene rilevato.Grazie per il Vostro aiuto.Ho comprato l'Mp3 all'UNIEURO di Ros?, Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza). Loro mi hanno detto oggi di contattarVi.
La Vostra risposta:
Gentile ClienteQuesta ? una risposta automatica alla sua richiesta.Se ha un problema con il suo lettore segua pure i passaggi elencati sotto per ripristinarne il corretto funzionamento.Acceda al Recovery Mode del suo Zen Micro, dal quale potr? attivare delle semplici operazioni di ripristino sul suo lettore:Per accedere al Recovery Mode dello Zen Micro rimuova la batteria, tengail tasto di accensione in posizione ON (verso sinistra) mentre reinserisce la batteria. Il lettore si accender?; attenda che appaia il Recovery Mode sul display, quindi rilasci il tasto di accensione.Quando entra nel Recovery mode dello Zen Micro presti particolare attenzione all'uso del touchpad. Si accerti di selezionare solo l'opzione desiderata; alcune delle opzioni disponibili potrebbero modificare il funzionamento del lettore.Le opzioni del Recovery Mode a?dello Zen Micro:. Clean Up: Esegue uno scandisk sull'hard disk del lettore. Il Clean Up non canceller? i file contenuti nella memoria del lettore.2. Format All: Formatta l'hard disk del lettore - N.B.: VERR? ELIMINATO TUTTO IL CONTENUTO DEL LETTORE!!3 Reload Firmware: Questa opzione avvia il processo di ricarica del firmware del lettore:a) scarichi il firmware aggiornato per il suo lettore da: http://www.europe.creative.com/support/downloads/e lo salvi sul computer dove lo potr? successivamente trovare con facilit's ( es. sul Desktop) b) Selezioni l'Opzione ?Reload Firmware? dal lettore, quindi segua le istruzioni visualizzate sul display del lettore. Questa operazione richieder? alcuni minuti. La preghiamo di pazientare e di non scollefareil lettore durante il processo. c) Una volta completato selezioni ?Reboot?.4. Reboot (Selezioni l'ozione Reboot una volta completate le operazioni di ripristino per riavviare il lettore.__________________________________________ ____________________
Non sono riuscita a fare nulla di tutto questo perch? il Micro Zen ? bloccato.
Cosa faccio ora?
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I resolved yesterday! Thanx anyway.
I downloaded the Creative Zen Micro Media Explorer Web Update.

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Message Edited by __ToFUtiffy on 05-22-2005 06:08 AM

__ToFUtiffy wrote:
DM: I dropped it on the carpet, how much damage do you think that'll be? ): and where am i able to find service if the hard-dri've *is* damaged?
You can never tell how much damage, if any was done. It depends on many factors like: How high it fell, how soft the carpet is, what part of the player it fell on (back, front, side, etc...), where the read/write heads of the dri've were, if the player was on, and more... There isn't much service to do besides a complete hard dri've replacement, and I think Creative can do this but I haven't taken a look at what the warranty covers and where repair centres are and what they can do....

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Igedit wrote:
N_Jay wrote:Time to update your computer. XP home is only $40 on sale.
$40? Where can you get it at that price?
Keep your eye on the Best Buy and Circuit City ads.
Usually comes up every few weeks.

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Hello,
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Hi everybody,
I got a Micro Zen player yesterday but when I put it on, it freeze on the Creative screen (the one with the big graphic creative).
I still have access to the recover menu and try a lot of things (clean up, format, reload firmware, ...)
Once it had works for 25 minutes (don't no why) but after that time, it soppped working and now, it get stuck (again) on the screen.
Any idea of what I could try?
Thanks in advance.
By the way, sorry for the English like it's not my monther tongue.

Your English is fine, no need to apologize.
It sounds like you've taken the right steps to fix the problem (Accessing Rescue Mode and running Clean Up) I might try updating the firmware to the newest v.XX.XX and see if the freezing persists. If it does, I'd contact Creative Support for an RMA. Repeated freezing after troubleshooting is a sure sign of hardware failure. Good luck!

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