Zen Micro - transferring voice recordi

Hi there,
I've just done a few recordings on my Zen Micro. Is it possible to transfer them on to my PC?

i have a n200 (not a zen micro)
the recorded files indeed exist in the "Recorded Tracks" folder, but although they seem to be plain WAV files i can only play them with mediasource.
Playing them with Windows' Mediaplayer just gives me an "unable to find codec" message
I have the drivers installed, do i need a codec to play WAV files?! Isn't a WAV file supposed to be raw audio-data?

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