Zen micro Jump

I am aware this topic has been posted before but i replied to it and it was not answered after about 2 hours.
I just got a new Zen micro for my birthday and I was rreeaaallly excited. When i ripped the music off i had a few problems like some tracks would be skipped but eventually i got them all ripped and onto my library in Media Source. I ripped them as 28kbps, MP3 Stereo.
When i played them on my Zen Micro the songs would jump.Not to the next song just like 'Hel--my name is DarkTurtle'
Should i rip them again, get a replacement, upgrade something? PLEASE HELPMessage Edited by DarkTurtle on 07-03-2005 06:44 PM

Ripped them all over again, try 92 Kbps, Constant Bitrate. And when you transfer, try to do it in small batch, ex. If you have 00 tracks, transfer 0 - 5 first.

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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.
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Hello,
I just got a Zen Micro and I am thinking of returning it tomorrow because it takes so long to play one song, then skip to another. I press forward song or backward, or I jump to another album and press to play another song and sometimes I have to wait up to 0 seconds until the next songs starts to play - very annoying. Often I wait at last 5 seconds. Do you experience this? Can anything be done? This is not acceptable.
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I am the one who started this thread and have some information about why I was experiencing this problem.
A friend of mine who turned me on to the Zen Micro never experienced the problem I was experiencing - waiting too long to skip from one song to another. He suggested that my Micro might be defecti've. So I returned it and got another one.
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Behold, your answer can be found here:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...6290&jump=true
No need to thank me.Message Edited by tganani on 05-23-2005 04:04 AM

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And say that there is no hope in getting the rest of my songs to transfer and i have to download 094 songs from limewire? I'll surely be arrested for downloading that much! What should i do if i must download all of them?
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# Where is the bass boost? I listen to a lot of RnB and rap music. The EQ does a fine job, but a bass boost would be preferable. My Iri'ver had this feature and it sounded great. Through in BBE while you're at it.
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this is a post i initially made on nomadness.. however, here it goes.

hey, i really like the glow when it charges.. could we have it configured like, for example: charging|power suply|always (i hear you about the 4h on that 650mAh; btw why only 650mAh?!) somebody else thought that it might be nice for the glow to follow the 'beat' of the song currently playing and that would be very nice also.
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nzOdy wrote:
I've been trying to transfer mp3 files to my firmware upgraded Zen Micro and find that the transfer slows down and then locks the player after 30-40 files have successfully copied. This happens with ..0 and 2.2.02 firmwares.
The player will then remain in a 'acti've' docked state (black arrows) until the battery is removed. After this lock up tags on the mp3 files are messed up and display Chinese looking characters in the Details View.
This happens on two different computers with USB2.0, one Intel based and the other AMD.
Two questions - anyone know if this is a known issue being worked on for an imminent firmware update? And secondly - is the problem aggravated (or even created) because I am trying to copy files over from a directory tree (mp3's sorted into artist/album/ folders) rather than one flat folder with all mp3s in it (ie. in one single folder).
I'd try transferring fewer files at a time and see if that works.
You might be on to something with copying from a directory tree too. See if transferring the files in smaller groups from one folder helps out.
You can always organize the artists/albums later in Zen Micro Media Explorer or Creative MediaSource.

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Message Edited by drawn-a-blank on 07-23-2005 09:30 PM

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Welcome to the Apple community.
If you are referring to adding a secondary account, to a single device, then you can do this at system preferences >mail, contacts & calendars.

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