Zen Jukebox Extra Problems, makes me want an IP

Question

I have had so many problems with my Zen that i feel i would have been better off paying the extra money to purchase a **bleep** IPod! Has anyone else has as much trouble as i have had?first it just randomly craped out on me. it just froze out of nowhere and stopped wanting to connect to any computer, plus my music dissapeard. it was something wrong with the hardri've, so i sent it in and they gave me a new one.then my boyfriends computer would not recognize my Zen so i had to update the firmware so he could run his service pact programs. once the firmware was updated i had to reload all of my music that i had saved on to my boyfriends computer. while doing this i realized that half of my tag information that i had changed in the Zen organizer was WRONG because it did not change the tag info, but only the view on the Zen. Plus, the new Zen organizer that is spose to work with the new firmware was not created to except the Zen Extra so i also had to DL a seperate thing just to make it work with my Zen. Then within that new organizer i discover that they dont allow you to have the left pannel artist view in the "my jukebox" area, but only in the "my computer" area, makeing it impossible to organize the music on my zen.And now, as i was dl music today, i had to delete things by hand within my mp3 player because the computer was not recognizeing the updated tittled versions of the music i was DL. while trying to delete albums it froze. i believed it was because the battery was low, so i let it die. i came home to charge it and my mp3 player is now frozen at the EAX screen and will not turn off. I wanted to save money and not be such a corporate whore and buy a Zen. i had heard wonderful things and i saved about 200$. Now i feel that i would have saved myself alot of time, frusteration, and headaches if i had just gave in and spent the extra money to join the dark side of the evil ipods that rule our earth.comments? anyone? before i sucumb to the darkside?

Answer 1

Yes, the Nomad Zen Extra has given me a lot of problems, too. So many that I finally did go to the dark side and bought an IPOD. And contrary to what everyone else said, no I am not hard on the player. It has not been dropped and the case is in prestine condition. When I bought it, I had no problems for a very short time. The first thing that happened is that I couldn't move forward or backward or the thing would freeze. I would have to reset the thing to get it to turn back on. Then I had a problem with charging it. When the battery would start getting low I would plug it in over night and get up in the morning and the thing would be completely dead. I had to plug and unplug it several times and keep checking it to make sure it was charging. Then all of a sudden my computer stopped recognizing the player. I even tried to load the software on my new Dell laptop and had a lot of trouble getting the player recognized. That has been a continuing problem. After many evenings and late nights trying to get the player to work I gave up for about 8 months and bought a small IPOD for my music. I'm getting ready to take a vacation now and thought I would try to upload some ebooks to the creative since it has a larger hard dri've. But guess what? Now I'm getting the simple that indicates there is a harddisk problem. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the software, installed all the updates and still nothing. Wait a minute, there is something, the symbol on the screen keeps changing from Rescue Mode to the symbol that indicates it is conected to the computer. But I try to sync it and the Rescue Mode comes back. I tried Clean-up, Fomat, Reload OS and reboot. Nothing works.
And one more thing, I'm not a computer moron either. I'm very computer literate. I'm just going to download the books to my IPAQ, my songs to my IPOD and just give up on the Zen Xtra once again!!!
I wish I hadn't wasted my money on this device!! And my IPOD works great!