ZEN - 20gb..Problems and difficult

Hi everyone,
i just gotten the black 20gb ZEN, not the TOUCH but the bigger size bunny of ZEN micro. Just wondering whether there is anyone out there facing problems with this so far no frills mp3 player.
my first problem with the ZEN was it being not able ot display chinese characters, but that was solved using the sync function in my Win Media 0 Player. but now i have a problem of extracting my recordings of my lectures i have in my ZEN to my PC and archiving it. As a student in Uni, i do forsee that i would be recoridng lots of my lectures (gives me zzz-ing time), so is there any way to extract out the wav file? thanks!
So far, Zen has been a really good mp3 machine, no frills interface and really simple to use...but i guess like any piece of godo machine, there are certain problems, any to highlight? maybe we can solve them and share our solutions here...
for ZEN users!
Cheers!
Benjix

benjix,
You have to use the Mediasource or Media Explorer to transfer files out of the player to the computer as described by Mattan. You can't use WMP0 to do that.
Jason

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