Zen Micro Setti

Hey I was wondering about a few things with my new Micro...
Is there any way to have the date and time show at the top when music is playing (like the IPod Mini)? Or is the only way to show the time is through the menu's?
I had another question, but I can't remember at the moment...

Farfromit,
You can customize the Date and Time menu and bring it to the front of the main menu page so that it's easily accessible.
There's another petition for this already so if your starting another similar petition for clock/date display then I would think it's best to just use those previous thread that's already in the forum so as not to confuse the other poster.
JasonMessage Edited by Jason-CL on 03-0-2005 06:49 AM

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Zen Micro Sett

When I am in the music library and am trying to change the setting under Zen micro properties nothing works. I can't change the startup screen or EAX or presets. I do have a creative sound card.

Bloogen,
Nothing is wrong with it. You can't change those setting as the zen micro does not support changing of startup pics and it does not have EAX. Only selected player that have those feature will be able to access those settings.
Jason

Zen Micro - - - Setting Recording Lev

Hi All,
Is there any way on the Zen Micro to adjust recording levels? Everyone knows that all CD original recordings were not created equally - some are loud, some too loud, some recorded at barely a whisper. I want to make sure that the flow of different tracks on my Zen Micro are all at the same level. Any help would be appreciated. Happy Holidays!!
Dan S.

Thanks SSR. I tried it out and it seems that the "Smart Volume" function lowers the volume of the majority of tracks to the lowest common denominator level - meaning that louder and better cd recordings are lowered to match the less than stellar recrdings. I was hoping to boost the lower recordings to a higher level since the micro zen paired with the Sony fontopia E7 earbuds already struggles with louder volume reproduction.
With my old tape deck recorder, I could boost or lower the recording level at the source instead of manipulating the signal after it is recorded.
Thanks.

Zen Micro Photo Pre-Set EQ Settings

Is there any documentation on the settings for the Creative Pre-Sets on the Zen Micro Photo I did a search but don't think I was coming up with anything ... mostly user settings.
Just curious as I am clueless when it comes to EQ settings and when I try to set my own, they just don't sound right. I know about the highs/lows and mids but was curious ... I am using Disco right now with Bass Boost OFF and it sounds good to me but was just curious about tweaking the settings in the Custom EQ.
Thanks!

There was a post a long, long time ago with some of the settings (i don't know the post or what the settings are), but the pre-sets are basically the same ones as in windows media player. WMP has more sliders to adjust the different ferquences than the ZMP has, but the presets are very close (if not identical) to the WMP ones.

Zen Micro Calendar feature, how to set up to sync with MS Outlo

hi,
i finally got my zen micro working, it has fully charged and i have downloaded some songs to it, the sound is great and it's playing the music!!!
i'm now testing the calendar feature. does anyone know or have instructions on how to set up the zen micro to sync with MS Outlook to download the contacts, notes, etc?
thanks!!!

thanks Catherine,
i used the cd that came with the zen micro. what i did now is uninstall all creative softeware from my computer. rebooted.
then install the zen software for the micro. rebooted
after that, there was no shortcut to the zen micro explorer, only thing in the shortcut was the product registration.
but i installed the same on a machine that runs Windows 2000 and it installed everything correctly.
whereas the machine that does not work is using windows xp.
would there be a conflict with the zen micro software on a windows xp operating system?
thanks

Zen micro - initial language sett

i just turned on my zen micro and hit one of the buttons and my language was changed from english to chinese. how can i fix this? is there a way to clear the settings and start over? thanks.

flipknoc,
The URL is mention in the previous post. .
http://forums.americas.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=3
Jason

Zen micro startup picture and EAX setti

Zen micro has a possibility to change the startup picture, doesn't it's In the creative mediasource there is an option Change the startup picture (below EAX settings) but it's not acti've, I mean you can't do anything with it. I would love to change the Creative animation for something else but I don't know how, it's just the same with the EAX settings.

Kisiel wrote:Zen micro has a possibility to change the startup picture, doesn't it's In the creative mediasource there is an option Change the startup picture (below EAX settings) but it's not acti've, I mean you can't do anything with it. I would love to change the Creative animation for something else but I don't know how, it's just the same with the EAX settings.
No, you can't change the startup screen on the Micro. It is greyed out in MediaSource, because this software is also used for players that CAN change the startup screen.
And indeed, as bloodangel05 says, the Micro has no EAX

Creative Zen Micro 6GB/Problems with Power Switch and Firmw

The power switch on my Zen Micro has died. I can't turn it on or off unless I 'jump start' it from a USB cable and leave it alone to go into idle shutdown. I've had this player just three weeks and this is happened and frankly I'm disgusted. But wait, my story get's worse:
So before sending it back to Creative I thought that I should at least exhaust every possible cure. First on my list? A Firmware upgrade to v2.22.05. I downloaded the program and set about installing the new firmware but halfway through the process it hung and I had to end it prematurely. Now what I had was a ZM that apparently had v2.22.05 but was not being recognised at all by my computer. Media Explorer wasn't picking up on it and neither was WMP although strangely when I connect the device it's there in the Device Manager...
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.
As a last resort I thought that I would try to use 'Rescue Mode'. Seemed simple enough, remove the battery and hold down the power switch. Then put the battery back in and wait for the rescue screen to come up. Seems easy enough. Oh wait, I don't have a working power switch.
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.
Anyone at all have any idea what I should do? I just want to put it all in a box and send it back to Amazon with a request for a full refund or a threat to take them to the Small Claims Court.

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.

Zen Micro not recognized on one PC but is fine with 2 oth

Before I get totally frustrated with my PC, not the new Zen Micro 6g, what could I be overlooking to get the software and the PC to recognize this unit's This PC has Windows XP (no service packs installed), and after restoring system and reinstalling the software, I have the same problem: I connect the Zen to the USB cable, it says "Found New Hardware" and then proceeds to want to reinstall the software and drivers again from the CD. Naturally, it should have picked up the installed software and drivers but it hasn't.
On my other 2 PCs, one with Win XP sp2 and the other, my Toshiba laptop with Windows Media Player 2005 Edition, no problems at all. Immediately recognized the player after installation of the software and drivers.
I am almost at the point of not bothering to install it on the last PC as it works on 2 out of 3 fine but I would like to find out what could possibly be the problem. The two towers are identically set up: same Intel865Perl mbs, same hardware - only difference is the OS.
I have unistalled and reinstalled, system restored a few times, and I give up.
Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks everyone. Oh, boy, I have a lot to search out, huh? Well, the chipsets are the same. The OS's are different though. I tried the USB from the mb....nothing. I do have an add-in card from Adaptec which is a dual connect card....contains 3 USB ports and 2 firewire ports. Nice card, usually works fine. All my other USB devices such as Canon camera, Sony camera, all work fine from both places. But, it might not like the Zen. Not sure why Zen wouldn't be compatible with an Adaptec USB card but I do know that Windows XP with no service packs does NOT recognize 2.0. just .. And I do get a message that states that I am connect a high-speed device with a non-high speed USB port. If that's the problem, why does it say "Found New Hardware" in the first place? And it does show up in Device Manager when connected, but with the yellow markings. It's listed under "Other Devices", and if I remove it, reboot and reconnect, the same message comes up asking me to install the drivers again.
I could upgrade this PC but I don't think that is going to make any difference, except that it will recognize the 2.0 USB ports.
I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. Any other ideas short of giving up?

My computer is unable to recognise Zen Micro as a dev

My PC adruptly fail to recognise my Zen Micro whenever I tried plugging into the USB port, I tried changing to other USB ports on my PC but still the problem persist. Tried restarting the PC and stuff... doesn't help.
I can't even upgrade to a newer firmware as the PC can't even recognise my device. Also tried reinstalling the driver, however it doesn't seems to help.
I believe the problem crop up after my sister tried downloading her zen micro with a new firmware, however this doesn't make sense as the program only update the firmware on her zen micro and should not change the PC configuration, my drivers or other stuff...
This is killing me as I cannot upload new songs to my player, anyone that know how to resolve the problem, please advise...
Thank you for your time and effort.
Regards
Ivan

It could be any number of things... There was a post earlier that mentioned "hanging" when connected to the pc... the resolution was to change the USB card... there are some USB connectivity issues... but you said that the problem stemmed from when you changed the firmware, or rather from when your sister changed the firmware for her zen micro to playforsure which usually requires you to change the creative media explorer for the micro to be recognized by the new software... The easiest way to try and resolve this, if your player was connecting fine before, is to do a system restore... that way in theory, all the programs that you have installed that could cause compatibility problems will be rolled back, at least that's what they say it does, but in my experience it's a hit and miss thing. So the thing that you should try is a system restore. Your computer should have set a restore point from when you installed the creative media explorer software, as it usually sets a restore point every time that you install a new program. So, I guess I would recommend that you go into system restore, which I believe is in the programs/accessories/system menu... and then restore your system to a point earlier than when you installed the creative media explorer software... If your player worked before, then in theory, it should work again once you make that change. Then your sister can try and reinstall the new firmware, and hopefully you can find a method by which you can both install it at the same time... I don't know how you would do this... but it's just my best guess at an informed response... better ideas will probably follow.

Media Source - 'file of this name already exists' transfering tracks from Zen Micro to

I've come home for the weekend, and I'm trying to transfer a few albums from my Zen Micro to my Mum's PC for her. Normally this works fine, but for some reason today I keep getting the message 'A file of this name already exists' for about 80% of the tracks I try to transfer. One or two tracks from each album will work and the rest will fail.
These are new tracks and they definitely aren't already in her music library - I've double checked the C dri've too.
I'm given the option to overwrite the exisiting tracks, so I gave that a try with one album, but the tracks still aren't didn't show on there once I'd transfered, despite the track number not going up, so god knows what's been overwritten with those!
Can anyone help?
Cheers!

Your firmware is not the PlaysForSure version.
Anyway, I just want to make sure that you have set up the directory and file naming convention correctly for MediaSource. Here is what you should do:
- Launch Creative MediaSource Oragnizer.
- Go to Tools->Settings->PC Music Library and click Properties. Set your preferred folder and file naming convention. Close the setting page.
- In the Sources window, click to view PC Music Library.
- Go to View->Right Panel View and select to view your MP3 player.
- Transfer the tracks from your MP3 player to MediaSource's PC Music Library by clicking the arrow pointing from right to left.
- If you have updated the track information of the tracks in your MP3 player, the updated track information will also be imported into the PC Music Library database. However, the tags of the files are not updated. Here is what you need to do. Right click the PC Music Library node in the Sources window or right click on any tracks in the PC Music Library window and select "Update Tag". This will update the tag of all the tracks or the selected tracks with the track information as seen in the PC Music Library.

Zen Micro FM Improvemen

Hi
I have just recently got my Micro (updated with the latest firmware)
and its great!!!
The only feature I have a few small problems with is the FM radio,
I am in the UK, and the reception is not brilliant.
In all the portable radio devices I hav owned in the past, manually switching
the reception mode to Mono on Stereo stations, improved reception.
The Zen Micro radio, automatically sets the reception mode for a station, and you cant manually switch a stereo station to mono reception (at least, I don't seem to be able to)
Do you think a possible firmware upgrade would make it possible to do that, and save the desired setting with the preset? Something like choosing the mode between MONO/STEREO/AUTO
Apart from that, everything is excellent!
well done creative!
Dave

i have the same problem the reception of the FM its very fuzzy a MONO/STEREO switcher could be a good solution..

ZEN MICRO: How to save files (to my harddi

Hi everyone!
I would like to install most recent firmware for my ZEN MICRO.
Creative strongly recommends, to save all data (here: music files) beforehand.
But how?
I should let you know, that most of the music (around 350 files) has been filed under"Albums", that I have created by myself by means of the Creative MediaSource Organizer, where I "overwrited" the original Album Name of the music file and gave them my individual sequence of tracks within "my" albums.
I have tried it once before:
When I save the files to my computer and copy them to my ZEN thereafter, all of my individual markings (such as Albums, sequence of tracks etc.) were "lost".
If it only would be20 files, I could re-name them without greater effort, but with around 350 files I do not dare to do that again!!
Any idea, any help?
Thanks&Regards
frankieboy 0.0.2005
Message Edited by frankieboy on 0-0-2005 09:04 AM

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Here is what you should do:
- Download and install the latest Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer 3.30.2 from your product download site.
- Download and install the latest Creative Zen and NOMAD Jukebox plugin 2.00.9 for Creative MediaSource from your product download site.
- Launch Creative MediaSource Oragnizer.
- Go to Tools->Settings->PC Music Library and click Properties. Set your preferred folder and file naming convention. Close the setting page.
- In the Sources window, click to view PC Music Library.
- Go to View->Right Panel View and select to view your MP3 player.
- Transfer the tracks from your MP3 player to MediaSource's PC Music Library by clicking the arrow pointing from right to left.
- If you have updated the track information of the tracks in your MP3 player, the updated track information will also be imported into the PC Music Library database. However, the tags of the files are not updated. Here is what you need to do. Right click the PC Music Library node in the Sources window or right click on any tracks in the PC Music Library window and select "Update Tag". This will update the tag of all the tracks or the selected tracks with the track information as seen in the PC Music Library.

Next Zen Micro Firmware Suggesti

I thought it would be a good idea to have a section where people can put in their ideas for new zen micro firmware updates, as for myself i have 2
. when you select "random play all" from the DJ section it sets your micro to play in shuffle mode, then afterwards when u play music it shuffles the songs you had selected yourself. I think it would be a good idea to add to the next update when "random play all" is off, and one has selected the music on their own it resets to normal mode.
2. the Creative Jukebox Zen had some EQ features that the Micro does not have. It was able to speed up and slow down songs by 2x. as well it had some EQ settings to make songs sound like they were being played in different enviroments, such as bathroom, concert hall, living room and such. I think the next firmware update should have these features included.
Anyone else got some ideas? :P

mikerules,
No, that's not true.
Where exactly did you read that? Do you have a link?
Cat

Trouble playing/pausing with Zen Micro touch

I am having a fairly peculiar (and frustating) issue with my new Zen Micro's touchpad. For me, the Play "button" (area) works only sporatically. Here's the symptoms: I can reliably press the Play/Pause button with my thumb, but I can't reliably press play with the tip of my finger. I NEED to be able to do this since I set the player on my desk at work and will need to quickly hit the Pause button if something comes up (read: if I actually have to work).
I have the latest firmware, so that isn't a solution for me and I have tried playing with different sensitivity settings. After playing around quite a bit, I have determined that the button requires something wide pressing down on it to work. The narrow tip of my finger doesn't work, but the (wider) side of my thumb or even 2 finger tips work great.
Has anyone experienced something similar to this? Is my player functioning normally? Any help is much appreciated.

i have the same problem. back, forward and volume control works fine. sometime much too good
but play, back and menu is only reacting sometimes for me.
and thats the second player i have. had the same prob with the first and got a new one from the vendor.
someone here could help out a little plz? can you all use the play button with the tip of your finger ?Message Edited by washi on 02-23-2005 0:47 AM

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