Transfere from zen xtra to pc/back

hi. I would like to transfere my music from my zen xtra to my pc,so that I can burn to disc as back up,
does any body know how this can be done please?Please keep it simple thank you
Ron

or you could even go from the mp3 player right to CD via mediasource as well...

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While this is my first Mp3 player, I've been downloading and burning concerts to CDs for years, so I'm sure I'll be able to figure out the basics on my own... really looking for those tips that "they don't tell you about" that often make a big difference in a positi've experience
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While it seems like many of these shows are "tagged" with song title, artist and date of show, it seems that many simply retain only the file and track number designation
for example, the 5th track from a 2-25-990 Grateful Dead concert will probably appear as gd90-02-25dt05_vbr.mp3
So rather than "renaming" each track I think I'm just going to have to accept the fact that the name of the song itself will not appear - and I can deal with that as I expect to have my player set to a random shuffle for the most part anyway, or will otherwise listen to any concert straight through
So if there are any other helpfulf hints from Zen Xtra vets who have a lot of jambands downloaded, I'd appreciate your input and advice...
For example - as with burning a show to CD, in listening to a concert I'd prefer not to endure a 2 second delay from song to song within a sho - is there a setting so that there is no "gap" between songs in a concert, as the tunes often run together?
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Thanks!
Message Edited by casique2000 on <SPAN class=date_text>-09-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>07:34 PM
Message Edited by casique2000 on -09-2005 07:5 PM

Thanks for the feedback - I'll look into this and at least learn how to properly tag, determine how much time and effort it takes (I'm somewhat lazy)
From a practical standpoint however, the jamband concerts I will listen to will have songs that are played on numerous nights (the draw for fans is that no two versions are ever the same, and in fact are often quite different)
As such the same song will appear many many times in my library - I don't expect to go "looking" for a particular song and and although I might consider bookmarking some better performances, ultimately I imagine I'll cue up a show and simply skip ahead past any songs I don't like
In that sense I think I'm different from a lot of users who use the Zen Xtra - and with the file names already reflecting band name, and the date of the concert - I expect that should be good enough for me as I would likely be inclined to listen to an entire show
Really appreciate the feedback though - thanks... and still am wondering whether or not there are going to be "gaps" between songs and if there's any way around that

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Hello to all technical-savvy people out there in computer land, I'm hoping you can help me somehow, as I am frustrated beyond belief.
I have a Creative Nomad Jukebox, Zen Xtra, 30 GB. I used it for, obviously, listening to MP3's while I was out of the country in Australia, and I also used it to store data...all of my digital pictures and videos. When I got back to Chicago, I was able to download all the drivers and software onto my dad's computer from online, and was able to successfully transfer everything from my Zen Xtra onto the computer.
I am now at my mom's, and trying to do the exact same thing to her PC and to her laptop....neither of them want to cooperate with me. The computer recognizes the device, and can recognize the data, but it is unable to transfer the information from the device to the computer. I have done the following:
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my Zen Xtra mp3-player starts only in the rescue mode.
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I have a Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra mp3 player, version .03.02. I've had it since July of 2003.
I recently bought a new computer (Dell Inspiron 520; Windows XP Home Edition). My old computer had Creative Organizer software on it. I no longer have (or more accurately, I can no longer find) any CDs that would allow me to install that software onto my new computer.
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Edit: I'm having the exact problem as this guy, but I didn't seem to find any answers on his thread.
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=6459&query.id=3264 5#M6459
Message Edited by talzok on 09-20-2005 08:03 AMMessage Edited by talzok on 09-20-2005 08:09 AM

Never use MP3 players to store important data, or as a single point of storage for any data (that includes keeping a backup of the player's audio tracks). You can have problems like this with accessing the data, as well as simply dropping the player and losing the lot.
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. Driver update - either update to the latest drivers, or nonsensically downgrade to the drivers that come on the install CD.
2. Notmad Explorer - use the Xtreamer function in Notmad Explorer's trial version (which is free) to access the data and download it. It will be tedious, because I assume you have to download one file at a time.
As for your general problem, I would try using Creative's MediaSource instead of Nomad Explorer to access the player (people generally don't have good experiences with Nomad Explorer).
Also make sure you download the latest versions of the drivers (taking above into account), MediaSource, and the MediaSource plugin from Nomadworld.com downloads.
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You can use Creative MediaSource.
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Here is what you should do:
- Download and install Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer 3.30.2 from your product download site.
- Download and install Creative Zen and NOMAD Jukebox plugin 2.00.9 for Creative MediaSource from your product download site.
- Launch Creative MediaSource Oragnizer.
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hi,I have been loading my new
nomad Zen Xtra with my CD collection,going great once I got the hang of it {novice here} now I would like to load onto the `Zen` my old tape collection,this is where I am having a big problem,I make connection as follows
---plug into the ear phone jack socket of my tape player
--plug the other end into line in on the PC
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-- when I sellect play back ...there is nothing.. no sound although the play slider moves
--tried different players....all the same
--does any one know what I am doing wrong ?
--has any one had same probs?
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frustrated Ron...................

hi every body, thanks for all the advice:--------------
the problem was the player that I was using to send to pc did not have a strong enough signal for the pc to reconise,athough I could hear it ok on the head phones,and also on the pc speakers,the recorder could not "hear it "tried other leads no good
then I used my large radio cassett player and it worked,
so I`m happily transfering my cassett music to the Zen,what a task the tagging is.
This will be repeated when I do my old L.P collection,we don`t know how lucky we are with the CD with all the info on.
regards Ron

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