Zen micro-music library. songs in alphabetical or

Weneva i put music on it, its all stored in alphabetical order of the song title and not the artist. how do i change this? this might not be the best thread youve ever read but i need help on it. so please reply

ollyp wrote:......arranged them by name not by number. but play by album on the micro does it by number.....
errr, no it doesn't. not for me, not right now. i browse to the album name, and hit play (which USUALLY plays them by number) but it's playing them ALPHA. for every album on my micro. and they all have complete id3 tags with track numbers, etc.....

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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...
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I just got the Micro for xmas and installed the software. I now have two issues. After converting all my iTunes songs into mp3s, the artist and album won't show up. I've right clicked my Folders tab to include the artist and album and it lists on my Details section for view but not in Creative Library...any suggestions?
I have hundreds of songs and going through each and everyone just to add artist and album will take forever.
Second and more importantly: My micro starts up and I'm able to hear the clicks in the touchpad but it won't do anything. It shows 3 demo songs but they won't even play. I connect the USB to the micro and it shows "NEW HArdware detected" then a few minutes later it says, "device not connected" - i'm gonna see if the store i bought it from has any suggestions but figured I would try here as well. Thanks!

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2. Sounds odd and like the player is faulty. Can you access the Rescue Mode to see if you can run a disk cleanup? To access the Rescue Mode on the Zen Micro, remove the battery, hold the power switch to the "on" position, reinsert the battery. Choose Disk Cleanup from the menu.

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<SPAN class=posttext>Man am I frustrated - really frustrated. Here is my conundrum:
I have a Zen Micro. I want to purchase music online. It is a frikin' maze of problem solving. I download from iTunes, they have some sort of proprietary format that my Zen won't play. Okay - no problem. I go to Yahoo music. You have to pay to subscribe and then download. They are wma anyway. Napster is wma as well. Walmart music is wma too. I would try Rhapsody, but I think you have to pay to subscribe and download as well. It just occurred to me - Sony has a music download site as well? I will check them next. I tried converting the Napster wma into an MP3 but I got a message the Creative software cannot convert the file. Arghhhhh.
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I have 355 songs on my Zen Micro and it says I have 55 MB space. I deleted about 0 songs and the free space didn't change at all... I think there's something wrong. ?
When I try to transfer music to my Zen Micro in Creative Media Source it doesn't work, it rips the song from the CD but when it comes to Writing it it just says Error: Unable to create file.
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samm wrote:
I have 355 songs on my Zen Micro and it says I have 55 MB space. I deleted about 0 songs and the free space didn't change at all... I think there's something wrong. ?
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sorry..it was clear in my head ;-)
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