Zen Micro Music Library Info Era

I got a 4GB Zen Micro for Christmas two years ago, and it worked great until it fell victim to the fatal headphone jack problem. I sent it in to Creative, and got a brand new 6GB player. I was ecstatic until I found out the new player wansn't recognized in the Creative Media Software. After a lot of e-mail correspondence with the Creative Support Team that ended with no helpful advice, I decided to see if my player was recognized in Windows Media Player. Sure enough, it did! I was so excited to download my music and use my mp3 player again. That was a few months ago, and it's worked very well. Until tonight. I was trying to dowload more music onto the player, hit copy to device, and the song started copying. It reached 99%, then the player said "There are no items on the CD or device." I checked the player, and sure enough, my Zen's screen read "Select music to PLAY from the music library." When I go to All Tracks in the Music Library, nothing is listed. But when I go to Now Playing, it says it is playing 72 of 00 songs. I plugged in the headphones and can hear music, so that's one good thing. But I can't tell what track is being played. In addition, my Windows Media Player won't recognize the Zen Micro any more.
I have a 6GB Zen Micro, am using a PC with Windows 98 SE, and WMP9. I've given up using the Creative Software because apparently my computer's too old to recognize the new software. HELP!!

Hi Atrain,
If you're about to purchase a Zen Micro player, and you currently use the WMP0 program, you should consider upgrading your new player immediately to the newest beta "Plays for Sure" firmware program, which will allow you to transfer tracks directly from your computer's WMP0 Music Library to the Music Library of your new Zen Micro player. You can avoid all the confusion and problems of using the various Creative software programs as intermediaries...
If you do decide to interact directly with WMP0, then you can easily set up your playlists before you "synch" them over to the Zen Micro player, or you can set them up piecemeal on the player's software, after the songs have been transferred to the player's music library.
I have quite a bit of music from foreign sources, much of it not readily identified by the major tagging programs, so I make up my own tags. I use albums, genre, composer, and artist... but I also have playlists set up for "trumpets", "strings", "concertos", "sonatas", etc.
I upgraded to the new beta firmware when it was first released, and have had no major problems with it. If you can bypass ever having to deal with the Creative Media Source Player/Organizer programs, you'll avoid a lot of problems...
kooch

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