Zen Micro, some tracks play at half sp

Has anyone experienced this? I have some tracks (but whole albums) which will play at half speed it sounds like. When I play these tracks through the Media Explorer and the sync'ed files on my pc, they play fine!
thanks for any input.

jijacob wrote:I wasn't doubting that it does, and I was going to recommend it earlier, but I wasn't sure, so I suggested something that I knew would work. Heh I don't hate anything more than being wrong about advice...
What I was kinda getting at is I'm not 00% sure Anyway, I guess we'll see

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bzjens wrote:
laflaone,I cannot find Iraqman's posting. I have tried searching for it with no luck...Could you please guide me (or post the link)?Many thanks
I think he means this one:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=69098

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Here is my problem : the track number tag of all my wma files contains 0(zero) on my Zen Micro, whereas it is fine on my PC !
I tried to use only the WM/TrackNumber tag... no succes !
I tried to use only the WM/Track tag... no success !
I tried to use both tags... no success !
Next, I modifed the track number tag directly using the Zen Micro Media Explorer. This works BUT if I transfer the wma file from my audio device to my PC and back from my PC to my Zen Micro then the track number tag contains 0 again !
Are you guys aware of this bug ?
Is the Creative tech support aware of it ?
Thank you in advance for any help.Message Edited by giom on 04-2-2005 2:40 AM

OK, just for you (and to satisfy my own curiousity), I ripped?two tracks using?the WMA 9. codec and Easy CD-DA Extractor?(with metadata enabled of course) at 64 kbit/s to the PC. I copied it using MediaSource 3.0.09 to my Zen Micro (.02.05). The track data including track number is still there.
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The try hooking it up to the PC again. And see if you might be able to redo the update process.
You can also try a hard reset. As described in a different tread. (Or read below).
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-- Quote from djassa1 (Re: N80 won't start up!)--
Just reset to factory default.
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hello everybody!
I was wondering why some of the songs, rarely heard by me, havethe same number of "play count" that the often heard ones. I've checked it by loading an album and before playing it, I Iooked upthe "play count" of the second song in the list. Then I started to play the firstsong in the album. While the song was playing I checked both "playcounts". In the first song (currently played) Zen Micro correctly addeda next number to the counter, but surprisingly the second song(not played yet) had it the same - an increased counter!
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Have you got the same problem? Is there any solution to that?
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regards from Poland
Greg

Area5 wrote:
hi,
>Creative support don't guarantee a reply here. The forum is designed mostly
>for peer support. This is repeated in the FAQ post and the forum information.
yes ... I know that, it's obvious, but ... did I write "I want" or "I expect"?!
no, I wrote "I count on", I think it doesn't sound like a reply is due to me ...
I was just trying to help (no need to vote my post with a !). If you were expecting a reply here from support I was trying to save you time and approach the correct people.
>If you have some specific issue contact support directly, click the Support >
>Contact Customer Support link on this page.
thank you for the information but I used this Support and my senses of
its professionalism are not positi've :/
I've definitely seen mention of play count not being correct before. If this is a bug it needs to be logged with support directly as well. I can't stress enough how important it is for everyone with a bug to log it directly with support, as often the number of support cases prejudice how likely a bug is to get attention.

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Word of Warning to those that have bought Zen from overseas as I have.
Some history first. I bought 4 Zen Micro in Feb'05 for my frens thinking the function and the look and feel of the player is better than IPOD and I know the Creative Brand.
I bought the Zen from overseas to bring it back to Australia to use while I was on Holiday. Which I'm sure is a normal thing these days. Thinking to myself that Creative is an international brand surly like any electronic goods now days if something happened to it. I will be covered by some sort of international warranty or at least even take it to Creative in my county to fix.
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To cut the story short I wrote to them with regarding my player is dead, they replied back with some solution (which I received very quick response from creative) but it was still no good. When I asked now that I have a Dead Player that was only purchased not 6 months ago what can I possibly do, this is the response that I received.
"As regards to your enquiry, we would like to extend our utmost serviceto assist you. However, please allow me to explain the situation to you,so that you can have a better understanding in terms of the servicingyour product.We would like to inform you that Creative do not provide internationalwarranty coverage for our retail products. We have an agreement with ourauthorized dealers and distributors that user are to send faulty productto us for servicing through them. In this way, all the freight chargeswill be bear by the distributors/dealers and Creative. This is also toprotect our users? investment in purchasing the original product from anauthorized dealer/distributor in their country.As such, we recommend and encourage our customers to purchase ourproducts in their own countries, and to utilize the service of ourauthorized dealers/distributors. In your case, you are sending the product to another channel but werenot purchased from them but through another dealer, they reserve theright not to take in your product. However, if they are willingly toservice your product, you will have to pay for the product servicecharge of AU$55.00 subjected to their approval. Moreover, if thewarranty period had expires, there will be a replacement cost incurred."
So basically I have been told that my player is dead. And only way to get it fix is for me to fly it back to the place of Origin (and NOT to Creative I was told but rather the shop where I bought it).
I tried calling up Creative in Aus and the customer service there gave me the same answer basically there is NOTHING they can do. But instead they gave me a Mobile Phone number to some guy that can "FIX" my player.
So after spending 400 bucks buying 4 players, I am left with 3 that are with faults and dead player.
If anything else happens to the other 3 player I'm pretty much stuffed.
Unless I go and pay for another 500 Plane ticket, to fly back where I first purchased the player hand over my receipt to the "Reseller" sit there and wait for them to go back to Creative and then come back to me with an Answer there is nothing much I can do.
Thanks alot Creative.
Another Faithless Customer

mupsai wrote:
Says it all when you buy 4 and they all develop faults.
How comes u never bought in ur home country but bought 4 at once abroad? Have they been cheaper than usual? Have u wondered why is that? It seems strange 2 me because I have and it works perfectly, 4 out of 4 seems very strange!Message Edited by ruff on 08-8-2005 :3 AM

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My zen micro froze while playing (wouldnt turn off or anything else) so I took the battery out. When I started it back up everything was erased. I'm in the process of putting everything back on, but what can I do to make sure this doesnt happen again, or if it does, what should I do besides take the battery out. Thanks

My Zen micro just started doing the same thing, which is of course what brought me to this site. I can't get it to turn on or off, it just says Creative on the screen. I tried taking the battery out and putting it back in but it says the same thing. I did notice however that if I take the battery out and reinsert it while holding the power switch to the on position it will take you to a clean up screen. I tried to defrag it but it just stays in defrag mode forever. Guess I'll have to call Creative tomorrow when they open. Hope you have better luck then me. Could be worse, just glad I don't have an I-Pod.

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