MuVo Micro N200 1GB Disturbing noise when backlight

I have a very disturbing noise when the backlight is lit on my MuVo Micro N200? Is this normal?

Hi,
Very recently a noise, a very loud hissing sound is produced by my MuVo Micro N200 GB. I have this player since early in the beginning of the 4th quarter last year. Few weeks after a bought it, it will just flash "creative" and wont turn on. I returned it the vendor and they were able to fix it after 3 weeks. (Sorry for the long introduction)
Now after more than 6 mos. a very loud hissing sound is heard from it, you won't even hear the music, the recording is okay, the radio is okay only when you play MP3, you'll hear nothing but noise.
Sometimes when I turn it off and then on, it will disappear but then only after a few songs, it will start to hiss again. It's quite frustrating.

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There is a known slight glitch in the N200, in that, for the 3 seconds when the backlight is on (say, when you press a button) you can hear a bit of a 'shh' noise. Apparently the level of the noise, or its being there at all, varies between individual players and what sort of headphones you go for. It's on mine, (black gb N200) but my plan from the start was to set the backlight to 'always off' as this saves batteries ( you can still read the screen, it just doesn't glow, in this setting). Even when it was on, it was for such a short amount of time, and so quiet, that it didn't bother me at all.
Setting this aside, I think that a gb N200 would be a great present.
Its main selling point, as far as I'm concerned, is that it's incredibly easy to use. You plug it in to the computer and save your songs onto it like you would save word files onto a floppy disc (remember them... ). As with a floppy disc, you organize the files into folders which you can name things like 'rock' 'classical' or give one an album name and stick all the tracks from an album into it.
The supplied software is logical, friendly and nice looking, but you don't have to use it to organize your files, the player can also be accessed as a UMS device - and of course this means that it's not just music files you can store on it.
Once you're out and about, it's child's play to select the folder you want to listen to, or you could just set it to 'random' if you'd prefer a surprise. You can also listen to a specific folder either in your set order, or listen to all the tracks within that folder randomly. The buttons and menus are logically set out and simple to get the hang of.
I have no complaints either about the sound, which is excellent as far as I'm concerned.
The player is also unbelievably tiny - the pictures do not do this justice! 'Cute' loving girls and 'gadget' loving boys will think this is amazing - I certainly do.
The FM radio is a nice touch, and I find reception to be pretty good, especially if I'm listening in the library (of course with low volume and closed earphones!) and so not moving about a lot. - the earphone cord acts as the antenna, so you don't want to be jostling it around. This is an arrangement shared by most mp3 players with an FM receiver
The battery life is better than certain other competitor'sand, for my amount of usage, really does seem to last forever.
I would definitely go for the gb, not the 52mb, as even someone who is not a huge music fan will appreciate the extra space.
Other features include voice recording, line in encoding, and recording of FM radio. While nice add ons, I would definitely say that if you want a voice recorder, buy a voice recorder etc, as these features are strictly little extras and are nowhere near as good quality as the players main purpose: - its mp3 and wma playback - which, as I have said, is excellent.
I think you can tell that I love my little player, but even I am aware that it has its flaws.
They don't matter to me, as the player does everything I want it to amazingly well, the question is: do they matter to you?
Hope that helps
x
Flaneur
PS (edit) - another plus is the fact that is flash memory based, which basically means that you can shake it around and there's nothing to rattle (or break!). Amazing if you're as clumsy as me.Message Edited by flaneur on 05-06-2005 :4 AM

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Hey there,
I recently purchased a Creative MuVo Micro N200 Mp3 Player with 52 memory. It was working perfectly until yesterday when i tried transfering a few mp3s into the player. I was prompted with a dialog box that read 'cannot create file'. Thinking that it had something to do with my computer and tried my player again on a friends laptop and the same error message popped up.After that,i went to www.creative.com where i downloaded another driver and a new firmware. The driver was installed successfully onto my PC.However, when i tried intalling the firmware into the player the following message appeared 'cannot write into device.device timeout' even though i followed every step that was on the site. I know that it has nothing to do with my player memory as there is about 80mb of memory storage left.
What is wrong with my player?What can i do?
Any help is deeply DEEPLY appreciated.
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When you couldn't get any more files onto your player where were the files on it's Were they all in the root folder? There is a limitation to the FAT filesystem where you cannot put too many files or folders into the root folder. Create sub-folders and put your files in them.
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strangerazn,
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i am thinking about buying the MuVo Micro N200.
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Have a search around, I'm sure this is answered elsewhere too!
But basically your choices are:
) Drag & Drop from your operating system. The N200 appears in Win XP as a removable dri've and you can drag/copy/move/send files straight to it without needing any 3rd party software.
2) Creative MediaSource software with N200 plugin (if you own a Creative soundcard). Fine if you like Creative software, will do the job. It's a matter of personal preference whether you like using the Creative software or not - personally I don't, but it looks pretty full-featured to me.
3) Creative MuVo Media Explorer software (comes with the N200). Again, fine if you like Creative software, will do the job.
4) Other media players with portable device support. e.g. Winamp 5 with gUSB plugin (which displays all connected devices such as N200 in Media Library window & allows drag & drop)
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bonjour,
j'ai un muvo micro n200 52 Mo - software .0.02e - que je connecte sur un pc avec windows xp pro version 2002 service pack .
pour des raisons de s?curit's, j'ai un compte administrateur sur mon pc que je suis seul ? utiliser, les autres membres de ma famille se connectent sur le pc comme utilisateur standard.
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existe-t'il une solution pour que le lecteur mp3 soit reconnu comme tel lorsqu'on est connect? comme utilisateur standard sous windows xp ?
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bonjour SSR,
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I Recei'ved my GB Muvo Micro N200 mp3 player on the 2nd July.
My issue: Transfer errors appeared with 394.3 MB of free space. I contacted Creative Labs support via email.
Their solution: Download new firmware upgrade and format Muvo N200. After doing this I couldn't transfer anything to my Muvo. I kept getting a transfer error message.
2nd email from Creative Support: I'm told to use MSCONFIG and carry out various actions. I then tried to transfer music via the accompanied software mediasource,this failed. I tried Windows media player and it worked the first time, but music fails to show up in media player.
Mediasource software fails to work properly (this came with the Muvo) and some song titles that display correctly to start with now end up with a title of "unknown" on the Muvo.
I'm waiting for more feed back from creative today (5/07/05). Creative support request email numbers are: (KMM67988292452L0KM) from 3/07/05 and (KMM68632452L0KM) from 4/07/05.
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Bertil
Read this thread to get more info on the root folder problem:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...essage.id=5579
I'm not sure if this was causing balan's problem - it depends on what his error message was while he tried to transfer files. If this was the cause then he should create sub-folders off of the root folder and put his files in them.
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The backlight buzz is something that isn't overly noticeable (even with the volume mid-way), just when you pause your song you can hear it for how long you've got the light on for.
Like said above, in a pitch black room, you cannot read the screen, but in ood lighting you can see the screen perfectly.
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