Zen micro 6gb trouble with transfering music to the player pls h

I bought on ebay. It's used i download the cd installation. Tried to transfer with media explorer and windows media player, it wont work. The player seems "locked" when ever its connected it wont show the music inside of it, just displays the folders. I cant create, delete, add music whatsoever it keeps saying i/o error folder is exited or removed, and when i try to transfer it says pending for a long time and failed right after. Pls if any can help it would be really appreciated. thx in advance.

Can you flash it with firmware / have you tried that?If a firmware flash works, then try formatting the player. There's plenty of posts about how to do both of these tasks.When that's done, try loading some music. If it still give problems, something serious is wrong. Don't want to sound pesimistic but if it's used and you got it on E-Bay, you could have bought a dud. I've never usedEBay before so forgive me when I ask if you have any sort of comeback - e.g 4 day return period or something. Best of luck

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So, check back with the website and it said to download an update for Mediasource and that should solve the problem. Downloaded the patch but then realised that I hadn't installed Mediasource on my computer (can't remember why I didn't though). Went back to the downloads page and downloaded Mediasource. Tried to install it but I can't. The reason? because my computer isn't detecting the ZM and I can't install it until it recognises that it's there.
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What I do have though, is a small piece of plastic and metal that I can't turn on, can't turn off, can't put any songs on, can't listen to, can't fix and can't be bothered with. I have a ?60 paperweight.
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Although a failed power switch is not unknown, I only recall seeing two or three other cases of this. It's not common.
If WMP isn't working with the device having v2 firmware something is wrong. Unfortunately this can be difficult to fix, but take a look here in the Zen FAQ at Nomadness.net.
MediaSource won't detect the player if there's some issue e.g. WMP0 not detecting it. You can of course also try installing Zen Micro Media Explorer (Creative Zen Micro Media Explorer Web Update to be specific) which has MTP support.
Are you are presumably under guarantee, and as you bought from an Internet store, it's best to return it direct to Creative. Contact Creative Support to arrange this.

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I've been having this same problem on Vista for a few months now. It appears that only specific songs can't update (i.e. iTunes and iPod freeze on specific songs; however, these songs play back just fine in itunes. As well, when the album artwork is removed, the ID3 tag is changed, the songname is changed, etc. nothing gets better. I get the distinct impression that there is nothing wrong with these songs as they synced perfectly fine when run in XP...as soon as vista was installed, the syncing came to a halt. I've been looking for a solution for so long (I even replaced my iPod) and I feel the only solution now is to wait for a firmware update that somehow resolves this issue (as newer versions of iTunes don't seem to do much about it and the problem persists in Anapod Explorer for me as well, I assume that it is a firmware issue).

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i Brought it the other day, but whenever i try to upoad any files it either comes up with an error or just fails. can anyone help with this problem?

Did you go to the support forums of your TV manufacturer to say it was nice? Or to the forums of your computer manufacturer? Your car? Your shoes?
People who come here are the ones that have some sort of trouble with it. Most of the posts are complaints of some kind. I think it only makes sense, though. How many satisfied users call Costumer Support?

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hey guys, i just bought a creative zen, and am having alot of rouble figuring out how to put music onto it. i have the music from limewire saved, but now i cnt figur out how to get it onto the zen player. PLEASE HELP ME, IM GETTING VERY FRUASTERATED AND HAVE CHECKED EVERYTHING BUT I STILL CNT FIGURE IT OUT
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unknowntozen,
What is the audio format of your songs?
WMA files takes up lesser space compared to MP3 files for the same bitrate. Here's an older discussion thread that may help:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...d=40764#M92839
You will need to convert the music file if it does not fall into the following formats.
Audio Playback Format: MP3, WMA, non-protected AAC, WAV and Audible 2,3 and 4

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Hi
We bought mp3 zen micro 6gb pink, in Feb for our daughter. In June she said the volume whether on the docking/speaker station or through the earphones was greatly reduced. When on 'high' you can just hear the music.
I tried to read other posting re volume but I did not understand anything! I am not very computer/mp3 literate, so I need very basic (dummy type) step by step instructions.
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Message Edited by aileenchalmers on 08-23-2006 0:23 AM

Where/how do I check fimware?
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A firmware basically is what makes an electronic device tick. It is the software responsible for every and all functions.
The Zen Micro has two versions of firmwares:
The original version works with Creative's own protocol and thus needs the installation of drivers for the system to recognize it. However it will function with all Windows versions while there also is unofficial support for Linux and MAcOS.
The second version functions using MTP, a protocol made by Microsoft and as such it is only supported by Microsoft's Windows Media Player 0 under OSs that support it (which basically only are WinXP and Vista...)
The simplest way to see which firmware you have is to look in the Micros' menu under System->Information. There you'll see firmware version.
If they both have version (..0 being the latest) then you'll need drivers for the both. As I already said, when I tried to update the drivers without uninstalling the old ones the drivers were installed but they wouldn't work.
First of all make sure the player(s) is(are) connected to the PC FIRST.
Mind you, in my case the latest drivers were already installed (I updated them but then they wouldn't work, remember?). Now here's the thing:
When I opened the drivers properties I saw that the driver was DISABLED. (under General, device usage)
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I put the CD with the original drivers in the dri've and selected for windows to look for the best drivers. After some time they indeed appeared to have found a better match and then they started installing them. After the installation was complete the driver's version was the same as rhe one BEFORE the "update" (since I had already updated to the latest version). However the moment the drivers were updated the device was finally recognized by the system, not even a reboot was needed...
You could try doing that too, if that won't work then you could try DLing the LATEST drivers (along with the Zen Micro Explorer) and install them AFTER uninstalling the old ones and REBOOTING. Again, it is important having the player(s) connected BEFORE starting the installation.
If after all that you still can't connect it ask again!
Cheers!Message Edited by Keyper7 on 02-9-200604:37 PM

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Hi,
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I have downloaded and run the latest driver install pack from creative but still windows reports it cannot find a driver.
I have searched the following
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Creative Labs Direct Sales responded to my question with this quote "Yes, the Zen Micro is compatible with Audible.com. Any format used at Audible.com should work just fine with the Zen Micro."
Everytime I try to transfer Audible content to the Zen Micro I receive an error message. Is there software that needs to be downloaded? Is the transfer process different?
-Rukauf

It's not... there are a few other threads here containing workarounds (sorry I don't know how to post the link to them here) that involve either ) burning the Audible.com files to CDs and then ripping the CDs or 2) converting the Audible.com files to wav files using a program called Microsoft Graph Edit, and then converting them to mp3 or wma.
You aren't the first who states they have received incorrect information on this subject. Further, I contacted Audible about their future plans to support the Zen Micro. They responded that they currently have no plans to support it (as of late January)
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