MP3 Zen Micro Music Purchasing Progr

I'm thinking of buying the Zen Micro but I don't know where i can buy songs that are supported by the Micro. Where does everyone get their songs?

I would recommend the Napster-To-Go service. I can't even imagine paying $.99 cents per song, and never have. For a flat $5 a month, you can download a mountain of good music, and stuff your new Zen Micro to the gills. I loaded a gigabyte of music into mine just this afternoon, sure would not have happened at 99 cents a pop.
I wish I could have turned Rhapsody into Napster-to-Go - I much prefer it, but they are still on the insane 99 cents a track plan if you want to take the music on a portable device (as the monthly fee is $0). What I love about Rhapsody is the great depth of genres to choose from. When I saw the Napster genre list I almost fell over it was so simplistic. It can also be a pain if the music you want to smack on your Zen is in Napster as a "buy" for 99 cents, but I can li've with that.
Since my son and I would fight over one music account anyway, we've decided to keep one Rhapsody account, and one Napster, and we're pretty well covered, still prefer Rhapsody on the home computers. I can open both at once, and go through the Rhapsody lists I spent eons building to help pick out the music for Napster lists to put on the Zen.
I have just one warning for you if you are a new Zen Micro owner - never under any circumstances hit the "Reload Firmware" command. I, and many others on this board, ended up with a pretty paperweight. Luckily I killed it in the first 30 days from Amazon, I sent an email that mine was defecti've, and received a replacement less than 48 hours later - have 30 days to return the broken one.

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  • Zen Micro Music Download Conundrum - Really Frustrated Help Nee

    <SPAN class=posttext>Man am I frustrated - really frustrated. Here is my conundrum:
    I have a Zen Micro. I want to purchase music online. It is a frikin' maze of problem solving. I download from iTunes, they have some sort of proprietary format that my Zen won't play. Okay - no problem. I go to Yahoo music. You have to pay to subscribe and then download. They are wma anyway. Napster is wma as well. Walmart music is wma too. I would try Rhapsody, but I think you have to pay to subscribe and download as well. It just occurred to me - Sony has a music download site as well? I will check them next. I tried converting the Napster wma into an MP3 but I got a message the Creative software cannot convert the file. Arghhhhh.
    So - what is the easy way? Is there a site I can pay and download mp3 music files and transfer them to my Zen Micro? Or is there a freeware converter to convert wma files into mp3 files - that is if the downloaded files do not have a voodoo whammy curse on them that prevents them from being converted.
    Might "Play for Sure" fix this? As far as I can tell this is for subcription services, not for single downloads.
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    I'm no expert, but I think Etomi would work for you. I've been downloading music from them for a while now, and while I haven't had an MP3 player to try and download the music to, I know that at the very least, music I got from Etomi is on my hard dri've, and I can burn CDs with those songs.
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  • Zen Micro Music Library Info Era

    I got a 4GB Zen Micro for Christmas two years ago, and it worked great until it fell victim to the fatal headphone jack problem. I sent it in to Creative, and got a brand new 6GB player. I was ecstatic until I found out the new player wansn't recognized in the Creative Media Software. After a lot of e-mail correspondence with the Creative Support Team that ended with no helpful advice, I decided to see if my player was recognized in Windows Media Player. Sure enough, it did! I was so excited to download my music and use my mp3 player again. That was a few months ago, and it's worked very well. Until tonight. I was trying to dowload more music onto the player, hit copy to device, and the song started copying. It reached 99%, then the player said "There are no items on the CD or device." I checked the player, and sure enough, my Zen's screen read "Select music to PLAY from the music library." When I go to All Tracks in the Music Library, nothing is listed. But when I go to Now Playing, it says it is playing 72 of 00 songs. I plugged in the headphones and can hear music, so that's one good thing. But I can't tell what track is being played. In addition, my Windows Media Player won't recognize the Zen Micro any more.
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    If you do decide to interact directly with WMP0, then you can easily set up your playlists before you "synch" them over to the Zen Micro player, or you can set them up piecemeal on the player's software, after the songs have been transferred to the player's music library.
    I have quite a bit of music from foreign sources, much of it not readily identified by the major tagging programs, so I make up my own tags. I use albums, genre, composer, and artist... but I also have playlists set up for "trumpets", "strings", "concertos", "sonatas", etc.
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  • Zen Micro Music Not Showing

    I have a Zen Micro and I didn't update the firmware since purchase 2 years ago. It worked fine until this evening I transfered songs and they didn't show up on the player. They showed up on my pc as though they were in the player but they are not. I went ahead and updated to the latest firmware and software releases per this forum's instructions. The unit syncs up to the PC just fine and appears to transfer songs. They show up on my pc as though they are on the Micro but when I attempt to access them all my player says is " Select Music To Play From Music Library ". What am I missing?

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  • Zen Micro - music won't trans

    I have 355 songs on my Zen Micro and it says I have 55 MB space. I deleted about 0 songs and the free space didn't change at all... I think there's something wrong. ?
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    samm wrote:
    I have 355 songs on my Zen Micro and it says I have 55 MB space. I deleted about 0 songs and the free space didn't change at all... I think there's something wrong. ?
    Did you try to delete the song with the Micro itself? You probably just deleted it from the Now Playing playlist, not from the unit itself. You have to navigate directly to the song (By going Artist->Album->Song) first and then select delete to truly erase the file.
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  • Zen micro music downlo

    Is this player compatible with any of the pay music download sites? I can't find anything that has a driver so i can drag and drop music on to the player.

    I signed up for Napster and downloaded my first song. I noticed that it did not recognize my portable device and the error message was that it was not plugged in. It was definitely plugged in and working. I loaded 800 songs from my personal library earlier. I looked at the supported players list and noticed that the zen micro was not on the list. I tried MSN and several others as well. All the same thing. I was just wondering if someone has signed up for a pay - per - download site that has worked with the zen micro. I realize that this is a new product so it may take some time.

  • ZEN micro - music library (artist and alb

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  • HUGE Zen Micro Music Prob

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    sorry..it was clear in my head ;-)
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  • Zen micro-music library. songs in alphabetical or

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  • Can you browse Zen Micro music via folder na

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  • Getting Music on your Zen Micro player - Help- Prob

    I've had a past problem getting music onto my zen. Yes, I've only had it for 3 days but I cant figure it out. I know how to put the music onto it but when I try to put it on my zen ALL the files say "Your need a license".. Is this the DRM? I have no idea how to get it to work and frankly im sick of it..
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    BekahMessage Edited by dropitdancen on -26-2005 05:4 PM

    Still no ideas? Anything like this happen to you? A responce? Comment? Something telling me you're trying to help me figure it out? .. Gaah. I dont know how to fix it. I've called Napster and Creative labs but their both closed on Saturday and Sunday.. So I cant get help. They Guys at Best Buy cant help me because they have no ideas what to do.. So Im depending on you all to help me..

  • Zen Micro Headphone Problem: How long does it ta

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    Most likely replaced and not repair according to the majority of the post here.

  • Zen Micro EQ questi

    My Zen Micro was purchased in Nov 04. I downloaded and installed new firmware in Jan 05. Now I transfer my music directly from my computer's WMP0 files, and use no Creative software. Works fine, I'm very pleased with this wonderful player. I have some questions for SSR or Jeremy, or please direct me elsewhere...
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    Thanks, SSR.
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  • Reduced sound zen micro 6gb - from limited knowledge pers

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