Zen nano plus fold

I tried making a folder for my zen nano plus, but when i put a song in it it takes up memory, unlike my sisters zen micro.is there a way to make it not take up memory?

Hey Guys,
I guess I'm what you might call computer stupid. I hope you don't think that I ask too many dumb questions. Well, here goes....
I recently purchased a Zen Nano Plus, GB. (I am really amazed at what this little thing can do.) As soon as I loaded the software into the cumputer, I went to Creative.Com and downloaded everything available for it. I ripped 6 CD's to it and ran out of memory. All songs were ripped in MP3 format without using the Smartfit option. I have ~220 songs on the player.
I copied all the songs over to a hard dri've, deleted all the songs on the Nano Plus, and tried to drag and drop them all back to the player using Smartfit and converting to WMA format. There wasn't enough space to get all the songs back on that I took off. I deleted all of them then d&d back to the Nano. The player is working fine in the shuffle mode.
Now that you have the background, here are my questions: First, Is this about the limit for MP3 format songs, or is there something I'm doing/not doing to get more songs onto it's Second, the help information isn't really clear to me as to what/when/if I should use the format/initialize options. Please educate me on this issue. Third, has anyone used an FM transmitter with the Nano Plus, and if so, which one do you recommend?

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Hello,
I want to use my Zen Nano Plus to listen to books and to play music. I downloaded a book from my public library (way cool!) and put it in it's own folder. I downloaded a bunch of music and put all that in another folder. My problem is that I can't figure out how to listen to my book for awhile, then listen to music (ideally in shuffle mode) and then go back to the book and not have the book start over from the beginning. Any thoughts on this?
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Rachel

what audio format is the book from the library? Typcially, "books on MP3" are split into 0 minute sections. You can do this yourself with a variety of programs. Audible files, of course, will play on your Nano, but you have to buy these. Audible format creates an automatic bookmark where you stop play, which is exactly what you are looking for. You can either make small MP3 files (assuming your book is MP3) and remember which file you stopped on, or you can download books from Audible.com and it works automatically.

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Is there a limit on the number of folders that the g Zen Nano Plus can recognize on the screen? I can only see 33 folders. I can see all of my cd's that I have loaded when I view the Zen flash dri've with my explorer, however the last 5 cd's I have loaded do not appear on my screen and I cannot listen to them.

hello
im having a similar problem with my nano plus gb firmware version .
i have 25 folders with 34tracks both mp3 and wma loaded to my player and able to view them via windows explorer (xp sp2)
but when i disconect the player and view the folders im only able to view 9 folders and they are arranged out of order . i use the player to listen to audio books as well as music so having folders displayed in order is important.
i have tried naming the folders audio book , 2 audio book , and a audio book, b audio book but they still get mixed up
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I'd like to have sub-folders on my player. I'm able to create folders one level beyond the "root" directory, but no further. Is there a way to make folders within these folders? I just downloaded the latest firmware update, but still am not having any luck.
Thanks!
Monica.

Yes, this is a much more articulate description of my frustration with the player. Whether you like progressi've jazz or hard rock girl groups, you can't organize them further than one folder deep. Any chance that'll change?
Monica
MikeM32 wrote:
PeeBee....your solution does not work on the Nano Plus. The original poster is correct, no matter how you structure your folders, the Nano Plus sees a root directory (anything not in a folder or Audible files, etc.) and one other level of folders. I have, for example 5 Spyro Gyra albums under a folder named "Spyro Gyra". The Nano Plus ignores the "Spyro Gyra" and skips to the individual albums. If I populate the "Spryro Gyra" folder with loose files (not in folders), the Nano Plus treats it like another "album" folder on the same level all other albums. You cannot click on a folder and be presented with a list of sub-folders. Not on this player, anyway. Does not matter what program you use to organize your folders.
What may confuse the issue is that if you open up your Nano Plus in Windows Explorer, the correct directory structure is there...you just can't use it that way on the player itself.....yet!
Message Edited by MikeM32 on <SPAN class=date_text>0-02-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>0:5 PM

Creative Zen Nano Plus Media Explorer only works for administra

Creative Zen Nano Plus Media Explorer only works for the administrator account; for other users the message "The Zen Nano Plus is not connected. Please connect your Zen Nano Plus to the computer." is displayed, but it *is* connected and works under other programs.
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Thanks for any assistance.
Edit: System is XPMessage Edited by zigkill on 0--2006 06:23 AM

RMskater wrote:I think you need to change the permissions to "Everyone".
How exactly do you do this? I checked this out tonight - when I logged onto my PC using my son's Limited User account (XP Home, BTW) I could connect his N200 and see it in Device Manager and Windows Explorer but both Creative pieces of software (CMS and N200 Media Explorer) did not see that it was there!
I tried setting the Run As... properties for the CTMS.exe file to run as one of the Admin user accounts but kept getting an error about being unable to find a specific file (which is in the Media Explorer folder!). When I went back to using the current user the error stopped. Perhaps I need to set the Run As.. options on that file as well?
As we don't use DRM'd music this isn't going to be a problem but it would be good to find out the cause of this once and for all.
I'm going to see if WMP0 has problems as well or if it's just the Creative ap
ps.
PB

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I had the exact same problem. I had ripped many tracks from my extensi've CD collection using the Creative MediaSource Organizer. When I disconnected my Zen Nano Plus from the computer, however, not all of my songs were visible. When I reconnected and looked on the Organizer, they were all there!?I followed the advice given by PB and dragged all my subfolders containing audio tracks out into the main Music folder and deleted all the empty folders. This solved my problem effecti'vely. Thanks PB!

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pejid

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I use the "Free CD Ripper" (http://koyotstar.free.fr) to rip the CDs to MP3 files on my computer. Each disk's files are stored in a separate folder. I use the book name and disk number for the album name (e.g. Book Title 0). Go to the configuration screen to set the file name to be Album - Track (%A - %N). I find ripping at 48Kbps is sufficient for my ear and it saves space. After that, I can just copy the folders to my player and listen. On my player everything is played in alphabetical order, so the above naming scheme works quite well.
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