Zen Micro voice recording probl

I borrowed my roommate's Zen Micro to record some li've voice tracks. I recorded fine, and I am able to listen to them on headphones with the Micro.
The problem I am having is getting these tracks to a place on the computer where I can can make the tracks into a disc. I downloaded the software for the player from the disc that my roommate has twice now, with the same results. The Zen Micro media explorer does not recognize the player when it is plugged in, and neither does the Creative Media Source software. Windows Media Player (verion ) does recognize it, and I can download the tracks, but when I try to play them back, it just scrolls through each one and will not actually play them.
So, I have tried dowloading the software, removing it and downloading it again. I tried the old version of Media Player, with the result being that I could not view the player at all, so reinstalled version . I am running XP with SP2.
Any and all suggestions would be appreciated, as these recordings are for a gift!

Yes, you can put the recordings onto your computer in WMA format. The sound quality is great for what I use it for.

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Hey,
I dont have a Micro yet, but if i were to get one, it would be mostly for the voice recording function, as I would use it to record my voice for rapping or poetry. Now my question is this, is it possible to get your voice recording off the micro? ie, can u save it on your computer's hard dri've as a wav or mp3. also whats the sound quality of it's
thanks for any answers u can provide me with that will assist me in making a decision.

Yes, you can put the recordings onto your computer in WMA format. The sound quality is great for what I use it for.

ZEN MICRO FM Record

I am trying to find out about the capabilities of the Zen Micro FM recording capabilities. Reading the product specs I see that FM is recorded in IMA ADPCM 22KHz format, and thats all they say. Can it be converted to MP3 or .WAV files? Can it be uploaded to my computer? Can it be ripped to CDs? What's the playback quality? The reason I want to know is that every year I go to a four day music festival that sets up a low power pirate radio station and broadcasts all of the performances. It's pretty common to record the broadcasts, and I have tapes that go back quite a few years, but I've been looking for a digital FM recorder (that I can afford) for several years now. This sounds like it MIGHT do what I want to do but the company propaganda and product specs don't address my particular requirements. Anybody know?
Thanks in advance,
Don

Jeremy - thank you for your reply! Lets see if I understand this correctly. The Zen Micro stores FM recordings in .WAV files, which of course I would be able to upload to my machine to slice and dice into individual tracks and rip onto CD's. My goal is to maintain the highest audio quality possible, which makes me leery of MP3s. This will be played back at home on a standard CD player at 400 wpc, and I don't wanna blow my speakers...

Zen Micro Audio Recording Opt

I'm shopping around for a digital music player. I noticed that the Zen Micro has an audio recording option, which will supposedly record up to 0 hours, is that correct? I was wondering if this recording would save as a file I could transfer to my computer or if I must listen to it on the device. Also, I think I read that the largest (data?) file size that can be held on the player is 2GB. Would this apply to a maximum-length recording? How big of a file would that be? Also, do audiobooks fit on the Micro? And the same questions apply to recordings taken from the radio.
Thank you!
Amber

I concur with college boy, additionally the voice recorder is surprisingly good quality, but the FM reciever gets, like all of the small portables I've owned, inconsistant to poor reception. This may be due to my location as I have seen posts on this forum claiming excellent reception. Either way, I doubt the recordings are anywhere near the quality you would get from downloading from your computer.
I have transfered several audio books from cd>computer>micro, and because the files from audio discs is usually encoded at a very low bit-rate 64kb or even less, they take up very little space on the micro.
One caution about audio books is that the tagging is usually very simple ie. "track 0, 02, etc so that with multi-disc books, which most are, you will either have to load one disc at a time and delete it when you are finished, or rename the tracks on discs subsequent to disc one or the new disc will replace the old one. When renaming tracks on second and third etc discs use two letters and three numbers.
For example: For John Grisham's--King of Torts, I named the tracks KT00, KT002 etc.
Audio discs are a nice complement to the music by the way. I get tired of tunes after a couple of hours and enjoy listening to a story for awhile. I listen to "Car Talk" and "A Prarrie Home Companion" on NPR on weekends.

Zen Micro FM Recording prob

I have a zen micro and I recorded four 0hour recordings from the radio and when I come to transfer them to the computer an error message pops up with this "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation" when I copying to a hard disk with 70GB free and each recording is 762MB. I tried copying the 4 files together and each one individually the same message pops up
I tried it on another computer the same thing happened
Can someone help me pleaseMessage Edited by mo_khalaf on 09-20-2005 04:36 PM

Search in "firmware problem" in the FAQ post.

Zen Micro FM Recording T

I've been thinking about getting a Zen Micro with one of the purposes of recording FM. Does anyone know how many hours I can record? Thank you for your help!

qapmaz wrote:
Let's imagine that its empty. Has anyone recorded more than 20 hours?
You can record up to 0 hour per session and when the 0 hour and up, you will have to manually start another session. Hope that hel
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Zen Micro - - - Setting Recording Lev

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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!!
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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.
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Zen Micro same old probl

i bought my zen micro seven or eight months ago in the UK, Now a few days ago i try to switch it on and it hangs..im like fine il take out battery wait 30 sec try again.. nothing so i take it home and recharge battery.. next morning nothing it works in my pc but 5 seconds after pc dectects it the zen shuts itself off.. and in the boot menu any of the options i select just seem to hang.. it wont turn off or on unless its connected to something or i take the battery out.. it seems a commmon problem and i was just wondering if there was any fix or am i **bleep**ed over by the machine btw it was never dropped or anything so im confused would buying a new battery fix this?
P.s the mp3 player when on makes a small repiti've noise.. anything?Message Edited by Kuji on 02-20-20062:4 PM

You can try the advice here in the Zen FAQ at Nomadness.net, but just to emphasise you do this at your OWN RISK.
If you don't want to do this or it doesn't help, then either return the player where you bought it or contact Creative Support.

Zen Micro V2 Firmware probl

Hello-
I've had the Zen Micro for a few days and I loved it, until I upgraded to the new firmware (2.002 - PlaysForSure functionality) which makes it auto sync w/ WMP 0. I was excited about the possibility so I went ahead and upgraded and I have had multiple problems with the new firmware release. I was wondering if anyone else had encountered these, or if they are bugs that need to be worked out.
First, after upgrading I synced with WMP 0 and certain songs would transfer to 00% then would hang and I would get an error message in WMP 0 saying: The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request. Error code: 800703E3. This never happened before. After removing the songs that would cause this problem, I no longer get this message, but the prob still must be attributed to some change that occurred with the upgrade since the faulty songs transferred perfectly before upgrading.
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Bear with me as I lay out the problems/sequence of events:
- Got excited over the MTP support and upgraded. My laptop stopped recognizing the Zen
- Creative support thought that my MP0 maybe hosed; so I rollback and install MP0 again. No resolution.
- Went into to 'rescue mode' and wiped the disk clean
- Installed the old firmware; my laptop recognized the Zen
I pressed on and connected my Zen to a desktop and upgraded the firmware to MTP support (v2.x)
- I was able to sync with MP0 but frequently experienced problems with 'hang' during sync after 00%
- I disconnected the unit and MP0 aborted the sync
- Reconnect and sync would hang at the exact same song. Further, I noticed the following:
- Songs would sync up very fast (noticed around 800KB/S)
- The problem song would experience startup problems and would hang after reaching 00%
- I deleted the 'problem' song (which plays fine in MP0) and 'sync' continued without problems
- Created a playlist in MP0 which synced OK; but the Playlist is missing in Zen!!
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I think Creative released the f/w too early.

ZEN Micro - Playing MP3 Probl

Hi ZEN Micro Fans
have a problem I need help for: MP3 music to play on my Zen works in 99% fine - sound is good and now problems. However, some other mp3 files (around 6MB big) with talking (speeches) are played in "slow motion" --> sound is good, but as I said, just sounds like if you had a vinil disk on a player and manually slowing down the disk.
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By the way, the same file played on my pc's mp3 player works just fine. I have re copied the same file to my ZEN again and again --> no change, the same behaviour.
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Ok, so Iv'e sent in a 5 gb zen micro twice now because of that headphone jack problem, and this time when they sent me a new one, they "upgraded" me to a 6gb. Well, I try to use this 6gb with the software i have installed from the last Micro I had, and my comp will not recognize it. So I try to user the cd that came with my old Micro, and it will not install right. When they sent me this 6gb, the only thing they sent me was the Micro and its battery, so I have no way to know if the cd that comes with a new 6gb is different form a 5gb cd, because if it is, then am I screwed?

A firmware basically is what makes an electronic device tick. It is the software responsible for every and all functions.
The Zen Micro has two versions of firmwares:
The original version works with Creative's own protocol and thus needs the installation of drivers for the system to recognize it. However it will function with all Windows versions while there also is unofficial support for Linux and MAcOS.
The second version functions using MTP, a protocol made by Microsoft and as such it is only supported by Microsoft's Windows Media Player 0 under OSs that support it (which basically only are WinXP and Vista...)
The simplest way to see which firmware you have is to look in the Micros' menu under System->Information. There you'll see firmware version.
If they both have version (..0 being the latest) then you'll need drivers for the both. As I already said, when I tried to update the drivers without uninstalling the old ones the drivers were installed but they wouldn't work.
First of all make sure the player(s) is(are) connected to the PC FIRST.
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I put the CD with the original drivers in the dri've and selected for windows to look for the best drivers. After some time they indeed appeared to have found a better match and then they started installing them. After the installation was complete the driver's version was the same as rhe one BEFORE the "update" (since I had already updated to the latest version). However the moment the drivers were updated the device was finally recognized by the system, not even a reboot was needed...
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If after all that you still can't connect it ask again!
Cheers!Message Edited by Keyper7 on 02-9-200604:37 PM

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