Zen Micro audio books quality probl

I just acquired a Zen Micro to listen to audio books in bed. I transferred a few into my player and half of them sound like a slow play back - i.e. deep voice and very slow. Almost like when (for us old timers) you play a 45 record at 33 or play an audio tape too slowly. When I Play the files on my PC they sound fine.
Any ideas

The sampling frequency probably isn't supported. Make sure it's 22 or 44KHz by converting it with something like dbPowerAMP.

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Zen Micro Audio Recording Opt

I'm shopping around for a digital music player. I noticed that the Zen Micro has an audio recording option, which will supposedly record up to 0 hours, is that correct? I was wondering if this recording would save as a file I could transfer to my computer or if I must listen to it on the device. Also, I think I read that the largest (data?) file size that can be held on the player is 2GB. Would this apply to a maximum-length recording? How big of a file would that be? Also, do audiobooks fit on the Micro? And the same questions apply to recordings taken from the radio.
Thank you!
Amber

I concur with college boy, additionally the voice recorder is surprisingly good quality, but the FM reciever gets, like all of the small portables I've owned, inconsistant to poor reception. This may be due to my location as I have seen posts on this forum claiming excellent reception. Either way, I doubt the recordings are anywhere near the quality you would get from downloading from your computer.
I have transfered several audio books from cd>computer>micro, and because the files from audio discs is usually encoded at a very low bit-rate 64kb or even less, they take up very little space on the micro.
One caution about audio books is that the tagging is usually very simple ie. "track 0, 02, etc so that with multi-disc books, which most are, you will either have to load one disc at a time and delete it when you are finished, or rename the tracks on discs subsequent to disc one or the new disc will replace the old one. When renaming tracks on second and third etc discs use two letters and three numbers.
For example: For John Grisham's--King of Torts, I named the tracks KT00, KT002 etc.
Audio discs are a nice complement to the music by the way. I get tired of tunes after a couple of hours and enjoy listening to a story for awhile. I listen to "Car Talk" and "A Prarrie Home Companion" on NPR on weekends.

Zen Micro audio prob

My Zen Micro has poor sound quality, you can barely hear the vocals and everything else has a watery sound. I know its not the headphones because I checked them on my cd player and they worked just fine, and when I put in a different set of head phones into my Zen Micro it still had the audio problems. Has anyone else encountered these problems? If so, what is the problem and the best way to fix it's

I have the same problem and it seems to be caused by the headphone jack. If I adjust the headphone plug by turning it or holding it in the jack, I get normal sound. If the headphone plug shifts, I get the weird sound you're describing. It happens no matter which headphones or speakers I use, so I think I have confirmed it's the jack on the player itself.

Zen Micro audio Ja

I have purchased two Creative Lab MP3 players in the past two years and both of the audio jacks work intermittently. If you plug in the earphones and wiggle?the plug ?around, you get sound in both ears. Then you move and the sound cuts off. I thought I might just type in "Creative Lab Audio jacks" into a search engine and it led me to this sight and all the problems I have read about these audio jacks. I guess I paid about 60.00 for one and 90.00 bucks for the other. I guess they are not worth getting fixed and if I did what would keep them from breaking again. Its ashamed that Creative Labs would not have corrected this problem beacause the 00's of threads I read date back to 2004. Oh well, Li've and Learn....

Just took the Zen Micro apart. One of the legs on the audio jack is lifted. My soldering iron is too big to get in there. Will get the correct one soon. I cant believe Creative did not correct this years ago...

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Hi amatyat,
I had the same problem.
Select a book
Play the book
At the screen that shows the book art in the background and the play/pause symbol
in the middle with the reverse/forward symbols on the left and the right, advance one
screen beyond this to the screen that allows you to slide forward or backward in the
book. Look to the middle of the screen, on the right. There's a tiny symbol that says
either 1x, 2x or 3x. Tap this symbol until it reads 1x or the voice sounds normal.
Liv

Zen 8GB audio book is

I have loaded one of my cd audio books onto my zen 8GB. When I go to the folder and click play , the player plays track and then plays it a second time, then goes to track two and plays it twice, then to track 3 and repeats again. Does anyone have any idea why this happens and how to correct it's If I go to one of my music albums the player cycles straight thru each song without doing this repeat every track issue.

The problem stems from the jack solder connection breaking away from the circuit board. You can either pay Creative to repair it again or try and find somewhere else that will do a similar circuit board repair.
See this site for advice on the repair itself.

Zen Micro audio jack prob

Hello everyone, I brought my ZEN Micro early this year. Starting this couple weeks, the audio jack on the player is not connecting well. The music/sound won't play correctly unless keep moving around the audio plug. I did connect with different "working" headphones but still having the same problem. I assumed that the metal connectors inside the jack is loosed. Does anyone here has this issue before? and how did you get it fix? How much it is going to cost for getting it fix via Creative? Thanks!!

Very common problem, look around at the other postings, this has been dicussed. No worries though! Since you're 90 day parts and labor warantee is up you will need to pay for Creative to "fix" it. Actually they don't fix it, but they send you a new one with a re-inforced headphone jack. This happened to me and after I got my new one I haven't had any problems. Just send an e-mail to Creative explaining what happened and they will issue you an RMA # and how much it costs (that price is floating around this forum, you'll be able to find it if you look hard enough). Well, hope this helps!

Zen Micro - Screen Displays "Firmware Probl

As an FYI for those with this issue.
Updated to the new beta firmware upon getting my Zen Micro. After having issues with Napster 2 Go, I got the service transferring the files to the Zen Micro. Listened to the files at night until I got the "Low Battery" message. Plugged it up to charge. Once fully charged, listend from about p til about 7p. The 5 minutes inactivity timer cut off the Zen Micro. Went to turn on the Zen Micro only to have the screen display, "Firmware Problem". I have rebooted, entered rescue mode and did a clean up and reboot, same error. I reloaded the firware to get back into the Zen Micro.

Meantone,
It would be worth trying a firmware upgrade, if you can, but it sounds like there might be a problem with the player.
I would advise you contact Customer Support directly for assistance.
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Zen Micro and Windows 98 proble

Hello, I just received my Zen Micro and have been trying to transfer files from Windows Media Player. I do have Windows 98, but was told it would not be a problem.
First my Micro has been charging for close to 6 hours and I am still getting the blinking thunderbolt. It doesn't seem to be getting fully charged and I am wondering if it is my computer or the battery.
I have not been able to install the creative software. The logo comes up but when I click on next, nothing happens.
I do have Media Player, but when I connect my Micro to the computer, it does not seem to recognize it and I am unable to transfer my files.
Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated. I have searched the site, but nothing really hel
ps.
Also, I have sent a email to Creative Tech support, but have not heard back yet.
Thanks,
Dan

I'm pretty sure it won't work under Win 98, although it might work under Win 98 SE.

Sorry: zen micro windows vista driver Proble

my zen is up-to-date firmware 2.2.02?connect it to windows vista 32 bits and windows says it can not find driver?why does this appens since creative says that zen micro is vista compatible.. thanks

Zen_Micr0_User wrote:
my zen micro does not work in vista either. we both bought a crappy product.
I agree, Vista is a disappointing product, considering the time MicroSoft had to work on it. :|
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Zen Micro MP3 Player startup probl

When i was starting up my MP3 player it was just brining up the charge icon and wouldnt start up. Then it brought up the recovery menu and i did a disk cleanup hoping it would work now. Now when its plugged in my computer it doesent do anything the icon for charging doesent come up, it wont even turn on.
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Edit: Now it is starting up and going back to just brining up the charge icon. I can also go to the recovery menu but it wont fully start up. I tried updating the firmware but im not able to connect it to the PC. It keeps telling me that it is not connected. I have tried 2 computers.
Message Edited by kevilay on 04-4-2006 08:04 AM
Message Edited by kevilay on 04-4-2006 08:9 AM

This same thing is happening to everyone I know who has a Zen Micro. Even me. I asked Creative about it and they said just return in to it's vendor or send it in for repair/return.

Do the new Zen Micros have the battery probl

I was going to buy a zen micro and I was wondering if that problem was fixed on the newer models/newer lines?

Well if you wait a few days/weeks/months then the battery issue will be fixed with a firmware update that Creative will release.

Zen micro, connection to pc proble

I got my new zen micro today, because i had a problem with the other one, but this time its when i connect it to the computer.
I pluged in the Mp3 player and the usb and it showed on the computer "A new device has been found" and so.
and i hadnt install the Creative programs, so i installed them and Zen Micro Media Explorer couldnt find my player, only Windows Media Player started.
So i wonder if there is a way to start everthing over again, so i can install the programs and then plug in the player so its going to work like it did the first time i had the player?
I have tried to uinstall the Creative program and reinstall but it didnt work.

Hmmmm, not totally sure, but this is what I did when I first got my Micro.
(on a school computer) Inserted installation CD and installed only the Zen Micro (no, not Media Source or anything else, just the option for the Zen Micro). Chose NOT to restart my computer.
Connected my Micro to the computer. It was found and drivers installed. I then upgraded the FW on my Micro to 2.20.05.
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Only yesterday my Zen Micro crashed and i lost every single music file i had on it (over 900) when i went to sync music back on to it WMP said that it had an unknown error therefore it could not put the music onto my player. I then unistalled the software and since i had lost the disc i got the software from the creative site however it then said my zen was not detected and would not install the software. I left it for a while and came back to fidn that when i turn on the Zen Micro it says firmware problem and brings me straight to the recovery screen. I tried downloading new firmware from the creative site and it says my zen is not detected so it cannot upload the new firmware. I have tried contacting Customer Support and they are no help what so ever so this is kind of my last resort.
Any help is greatly appriciated
Jonny Toye

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Open Windows Media Player 0.
Click on the File button, CDs and Devices, and then click on Synchronize.
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Zen Micro Firmware Upgrade/Media Probl

Hi, have upgraded the firmware on my Zen Micro to v2.2.02. SInce the upgrade Zen Micro Media Expolrer will no longer work, as it says it in uncompatable with the device. I now have to load songs via MY COMPUTER and it doesnt have the ease of use and functionality of ZMME. Any ideas what I can do? Thanks in advance.

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