Zen Micro Voice recording quest

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.

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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.

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.
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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
ps.

Zen Micro - - - Setting Recording Lev

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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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Help with my Bran-New Creative Zen Micro Photo. [Questi

<EM>If you don't want to see the backing of my whole story skip to the bold print at the bottom!</EM>I also want you to know I read the FAQs and searched through some topics like this, but haven't found any asking my question.First of all, I'm new to the forum, but I've been researching Creative's Zen for a long time now. I kept observing each one closely before I purchased a product. I then saw the Zen Micro Photo come out. This one won my attention. I loved this, I quickly searched for reviews and went for the buy for Christmas. I told my dad about it and he was "iffy" on the price, but it was better then the iPod in my opinion.Christmas day came and I opened it. Right away I checked everything out I knew a lot about the menu already and all, but not really how to control it. I checked to make sure everything worked. All systems were go. After listening to the defaults (which I loved) I went to go install the software. I already had Media Player 0 and Adobe, oh and I didn't want the freakin AOL toolbar! Lol, so I installed everything else. It took forever, but I hooked it up and I installed the drivers, but as soon as I plug in the USB connector I see: "A HIGH-SPEED USB device has been plugged into a LOW SPEED USB port.After that, I switched USB ports, btu I got same message. I hit the X and then tried to charge. I got the Lightening Bolt, but no dimming of lights. I found out that this computer is not letting me install any service packs, I'm confused about that.My question:Is there anyway I can charge this mp3 player and download music onto my Zen Micro Photo without Service Pack ? Or did I just pay $250 for a really cool glowing mp3 player to be used as a paperweight? (I love this Zen and I ran the battery dead hoping that would make the charging easier).Help?
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Thanks, I appreciate any response!Message Edited by Montauke on 0--2005 04:20 AM

Rahul: If it's rebuilding the library then why would other buttons function? Also corrupted files are unlikely to slow things down. Typically they just fail to work, or cause problems during actual playback.
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I need something to record lectures at uni'versity and was thinking about the Rhomba NX.
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The room I will be recording in is quite small and will only have about 0 other students.
What is the quality of the recording like? Will other noise in the room affect the recording a lot?
Will my lecturer have to wear the recorder around his neck, or will it be fine on a desk in front of him?
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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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ThanksMessage Edited by HKZ4LF on 0-06-2006 2:35 AM

nu_guy wrote:
Dont blow ya **bleep** zen up with that. As a matter of fact, I think you dun lost ya mind.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=585026059&ssPageName=M ERC_VIC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BIN_IT
I just got this off Ebay. its only like $9. comes with the Zen stand, whcich looks pretty wack and the belt clip piece, also garbage. and I got 2 black zen baggies. All creative made. Took like 7 days to get to me in NY.
Its got a big ol connector for the wall but its all good. Taking it to my girl's house tonite to see how it does. If you want, Wait till I try it out tonight, Ill give you the update.
Your welcome
And an additional battery for your zen is another $5. I think its a good deal.Message Edited by nu_guy on 0-06-2006 2:4 AM
Hey that Zen charger that I showed from ebay is the **bleep**. Its like 3X faster than the computer usb charger. Both chargers are usb. It comes wit the dock plus stand + belt clip. its dirt cheap too. cant go wrong. peace.
and I hope ypur zen dont jack up friend. good luck. remember you want to have the zen for at least 2 years. or maybe u dont.

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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.
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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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