ZEN Style 100

I bought a ZEN Style 100 for my little brother. I also bought him "Eragon" as an audio book on mp3-CD and copied it into the Music folder on the Zen. My first gripe is that I wasn't able to work out how to do that with the software that comes on the player, because it didnt show up in the media library and there is no option to search and add files to the library.
Anyways, the ZEN played the files fine, but they were in random order, because the files didn't have track-number entries in their ID3 tags when I copied them from the original! CD.
So I entered the Track number by hand to the files. The problem is: whenever I change anything in the ID3 tags of a file it won't show up on the ZEN anymore! What can I do?

Hi,
You might want to use a playlist to have the player play the tracks in a specific order.

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The transferring of mp3 to Creative Zen Style 100 stops

Hello,
several weeks ago i bought Creative Zen Style 00. Everything worked perfectly for the first 2 times (I mean the transferring from PC to the player) but then something went wrong - it transfers or a few songs from the album and then it stops (showing, e.g. "5 seconds left" all the time). Then it shows: error and "The path is too deep". ?And it happens only on my PC. Do I need some kind of driver (i tried to download everything i found) or what...
Thanks in advance

;Hello Vyte,
Welcome to Creative forums!
A couple of things you might need to check:
.) Check for songs with long file names. Try to shorten file names and don't use special characters.
2.) Try to shorten the number of sub folders. Just to make sure, limit it to three (main folder->sub folder->sub folder).
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ps.

Unable to Download Creative Centrale for Zen Style 100

I've recently purchased a Zen Style 00 however I'm unable to transcode videos for the device as the necessary software (Creative Zen Style Starter Pack) on the Creative web page has a bad link (http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=352).
Could anyone please redirect me to a working link?
Thank you,
~Proto

:Tried the link,
On clicking agree I get the following error
"The page cannot be found.
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
I've encountered this error on all the Style 00 downloads. Does anyone know what's going on at Creative's site or can recommend an alternati've download.
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proto

Zen style 100 - how turn on after 'idle shutdown'?!

The default idle shutdown time is 5 mins - so how do you turn it back on after it shuts down (without connecting to a computer or charger - if you're 'out and about', like)?

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I'm getting really stupid - I hadn't even checked the start guide to find out what was to be the on/off switch!? I pressed everything like an idiot and then posted on a forum. ?'Press and hold' hadn't occured to me.
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Creative Zen Style M300. My story.

Hello to all,
The following is a list of features that, in my humble opinion, every decent MP3 reader must have:
1) Must be SMALL. Images and video must be avoided because they increase screen size: MP3 reader is for playing music, I use it during jogging and I need to hold it in a single hand. If I want to see images and videos I use my smartphone.
2) Must have a great capacity even if you play only music. I usually buy 8 GB players and expand it with 16 GB SDHC card. 24 Gb is enough for me.
3) Must have a battery duration of, at least, 15 hours.
4) Must have a processor fast enough to have a good response time.
5) MUST support browsing by folder.
6) Must have FM radio.
7) Buttons must be responsive and placed in right places in order to be easily accessible with a single hand.
8) The output must be sufficiently loud.
9) Must support MP3 and WMA.
10) Must have a good SNR.
One year ago the only player that fits all these requirements was Sansa Clip Plus. A very well designed MP3 reader (in terms of features). BUT, my first Sansa Clip Plus battery dead after 6 months. At the time no other valid alternative exists... so I buy a second Sansa Clip Plus. After some months, it stop to works with apparently no reason. How sad. Look like that battery and/or power system of Sansa Clip Plus is very poor. So I have tried to find a valid alternative. I have tried the Creative Zen Style M300. But it lacks some important features. Referring to the previous list:
1) The size is acceptable.
2) OK
3) OK
4) Not fast and responsive as the Sansa Clip Plus but could be accepted (Sansa Clip Plus is very very fast).
5) This feature is absent and IMHO is a totally wrong decision. I have tons of MP3 organized in folders and now I have to reorganize they differently. In addition the reader come with no software and I don't know how to edit ID3 tag.
6) OK
7) Touch buttons are a really bad choice for a MP3 reader. They are not very responsive and badly located (hard to be handled by a single hand). To be more comfortable the volume buttons should be placed on the left side (usually managed by forefinger and middle finger of the right hand).
8) Volume is poor. Equalizer have no effect if your volume is near the maximum level (31), because the output power is limited. Look like Creative limit power for European models. Sansa Clip Plus also limit power, but you can choose your country in the configuration menu and if you select a country outside Europe, you can overcome that problem.
9) OK
10) OK
I wish to report my experiences hoping that Creative designers can read it.
- A disappointed customer

Hi,
Most music (classical) is from ripped CD's, some albums from eMusic. If needed I use Mp3tag.
The problem is that the pics seem to show up or not at random. It's not a big deal really, just odd.
I don't have this problem with my Zen X-Fi 2. Only problem there is pics for .flac files.
Gilles

Creating a playlist on the ZEN Style M100/300 using WinAmp

On WinAMP's left panel, right-click on "Playlists". Select "New Playlist...", then enter your playlist name.
2) Select the songs you wish to add to the playlist, drag & drop them into the playlist name you've just created.
3) Right-click on the playlist title example "John's Birthday Demo",select "Send to" ---> "USB Dri've H:" (assuming H: is your device dri've leter assigned to the player). The playlist and the songs listed in your playlist will be transfered into the ZEN Style M series player?
4) Safely disconnect your player from the Windows system ,then disconnect your player from the USB cable. The player hourglass icon will appear and spin for a while, this is to generate and update the player's memory since new contents are added. Once the process has completed, scroll to "Music" --> "Playlist" then select your newly added playlist title to play.
Note: Please make sure that you have already loaded the songs into the MUSIC folder of the ZEN Style M series player before creating the playlist.

Strange problem with Zen Style 300

I got a Zen Style 300 for my birthday and it is given me some problems. I tried looking at this forum and on google, but so far haven't found anything like it. What happens is that during the sync process, some folders on my portable harddisk (which is where the music is located) get renamed into names with strange symbols and become unreadable. The strange thing is that it doesn't happen with all files and just as strange is that it does happen with files not related to the sync that are located in a completely different folder. You can imagine I got quite scared the first time, afraid of having lost my music collection, but on restart everything was fine again. Until I plugged in the ZEN again that is.
My second problem is probably related to it. Part of the files transfered to the player don't show up when I try to listen to them with the player. When I check they have been copied to the player correctly, yet somehow they don't show up.
I have Windows XP and tried syncing with the standard Creative software, MediaMonkey and iTunes but they all face the same problem. Although with the second problem it might happen that files copied one way don't show up, while the same files transfered with a different program do. All 3 cause the problem with my harddisk. I tried formatting the player and updating it. So anyone has any idea what might cause this?

I have a similar problem. It recognized and paired with a Sony Ericsson MW600 Hi-Fi Bluetooth Stereo Headset once. I lost connection, could no longer connect, and tried to re-pair it. Now it recognizes the the headset's name (MW600), but when you try to pair with it stays on a "Please wait..." message. It will stay that way forever until I press the back (left) arrow. Then the message says "Remote Device not responding" and pairing fails. This MW600 headset pairs with other devices (cell phone, PC) just fine, though, so it's not malfunctioning.
I suspect this might be a Bluetooth version compatibility issue? I say that because when I connect to a Jawbone Era (pretty new device, probably latest Bluetooth spec), everything goes fine.
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Zen style listening by folders?

Hello,
I switched my old Muvo player into Zen Style 00. But I can't find if there is option to play music by folders. I have my own compilations in several folders and when I want to play let's say "folder " I can't find it. I just see list of albums containing song. I don't want to see this kind of view. I want to go to my "folder " and listen tracks from there!
Is there any way to listen music by folders like in nice old Creative players?

EHi Ivanka,
I'm pretty sure The Zen Style organises the music files by their tag information instead of the folder structure. I don't own the Style so hopefully someone else can confirm this, I searched google for it but I couldn't find anything.
If it uses tags then you can browse your music by artist, album, or genre.
You can configure the menu so that you can make album view the first option of the whole player. At default?I believe? album view is the third option in the music menu, which is the third option of the home menu. So that would be down, down, right, down, down, right.
This album view lists all the albums and you can go up and down in this list and press play (most right button), it will bring you to the now-playing screen and it starts playing all the tracks that belong to that album.
The back button (most left button) will always take you back to the screen you were before. So if you press back, down, play, it will start playing all the tracks that belong to the next album on the list.
This navigation by tags will of course only work when all the tracks are properly tagged, if you downloaded the tracks then they probably already are.
There is also an option to play all the files on the player in alphabetical order while ignoring the tags. This might be more useful, because you can then skip tracks back and forth, but there is no way to skip whole albums this way.
Oh and I almost forgot: The second button from the left is programmable and acts as a shortcut. You can configure it to perform any action, for example view albums, or play all files.
I hope this was helpful in some way and you will find your way with the player.
- Bertwin

Zen Style 300 16GB limited to only 4000 songs????

I got the Zen Style 300 6GB for my birthday. My mp3 collection is 3 GB and this will hold the whole thing.
But no all the songs show up. ?Why is there a 4000 file limit's ?Can Creative change the firmware to allow 5000 files?
Also, why is there very little mention of this mp3 player on the boardsIs it an older model?
I noticed the some player listed 4K mp3 files and 8K WMA files. ?So I changed some mp3 into wma to see if I could get pass the 4K mark, but it did not work.

EHi Ivanka,
I'm pretty sure The Zen Style organises the music files by their tag information instead of the folder structure. I don't own the Style so hopefully someone else can confirm this, I searched google for it but I couldn't find anything.
If it uses tags then you can browse your music by artist, album, or genre.
You can configure the menu so that you can make album view the first option of the whole player. At default?I believe? album view is the third option in the music menu, which is the third option of the home menu. So that would be down, down, right, down, down, right.
This album view lists all the albums and you can go up and down in this list and press play (most right button), it will bring you to the now-playing screen and it starts playing all the tracks that belong to that album.
The back button (most left button) will always take you back to the screen you were before. So if you press back, down, play, it will start playing all the tracks that belong to the next album on the list.
This navigation by tags will of course only work when all the tracks are properly tagged, if you downloaded the tracks then they probably already are.
There is also an option to play all the files on the player in alphabetical order while ignoring the tags. This might be more useful, because you can then skip tracks back and forth, but there is no way to skip whole albums this way.
Oh and I almost forgot: The second button from the left is programmable and acts as a shortcut. You can configure it to perform any action, for example view albums, or play all files.
I hope this was helpful in some way and you will find your way with the player.
- Bertwin

List of Compatible MicroSD Cards for ZEN Style M300/M100

Note: As there is a wide variety of cards available in the market, some may not be compatible, even of the same brand, model and class. This list serves only as a reference to help you make informed choices. Customers are therefore advised to test the cards first before purchasing them.
Brand Type Model Capacity Speed ZEN Style M300 ZEN Style M00
Creative/Zii
microSD
Creative Zii 2GB
2GB
NA
Yes
Yes
Creative/Zii
microSD
4GB
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Kingston
microSDHC
SDC4/8GB 05
8GB
Class 4
Yes
Yes
Kingston
microSDHC
2GB
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Kingston
microSDHC
SDC2/6GB 07
6GB
Class 2
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
32GB
Class 2
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
SDSDQM-032G-B35N
32GB
Class 4
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
SDSDQ-892-A M
8GB
Class 4
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
32GB
Class 2
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
4GB
Class 4
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
0650605C8E9
4GB
Class 4
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
8GB
Class 2
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
2GB
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SanDisk
microSDHC
4GB
Class 2
Yes
Yes
Toshiba
microSDHC
SD-MD008GA
8GB
Class 4
Yes
Yes
Unbranded
microSDHC
MMAGR02GU ECA-MB
2GB
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Legend:
NA = Not Applicable Yes = Compatible
This article is also available in the knowledge base page.

I have just found out I was using a Class 10 SanDisk microsdhc card, and am concerned that I may have done damage to my phone and/or music collection (as per Nokia guidelines). Is anyone able to tell me what the chances are that this will have damaged them, and if there's anything I can do to rectify? Thanks!

Browsing and playing by folders on zen style m300

Hello
Can I browse and play the music by folders on my ZEN Style M300?
In menu i can only via playlist, artist, title and genre

I received my Zen Style M300 just right now and I discover that it miss this very important feature (that every MP3 reader have!).... HOW SAD
!!! That's a VERY VERY BAD thing! ??
Hey CREATIVE, PLEAAAASEEE, add folder browing in next firmware release!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have my music organized in hundreds of folders. This is by FAR the best and QUICK way to organize music, because you can choose your criteria arbitrarily (not by artist, album or whatelse)!!!!
However this feature already exists for files in the external sd card, so.... simply expose it for the internal memory! PLEASEEEEE!!!!

Creative Zen Style 300 - charging

Hi,?i have a big problem. I bought mp4 about 2 weeks ago. I listened to it from time to time. Yesterday, my mp4 warned me that the battery is very low. So i connected USB to my mp4 and to the charger and put it in to the socket. My mp4 is charging for about 0 seconds and it turned on autobmatically. And it won't charge! I thought that maybe it only charges when it has to be on. So i put it like that for a night. In the morning it was in the same condition like the last night! I downloaded ?Creative ZEN Style 300/00 Firmware .03.04 and?Creative ZEN Style Starter Pack .8.03?but it didn't help. Please, what do i have to do?

Hi,
It looks like something is wrong with the player. Did you purchase this from your local electronics store or direct from Creative? Please contact the place of purchase for repair/replacement.

Zen Style M300 Bluetooth Streaming Problems

+~Hi
I've got a new 8gb Zen Style M300 player which I've upgraded with the latest .00.6e firmware.
I have been able to pair to a blueTooth headset (Nokia BH24 http://europe.nokia.com/find-product...s#Connectivity?) and it will connect every time.
However the streaming is choppy (something like 0 pulses per second) so the BT is unuseable - I've turned off my wifi etc in the house in case this was interfering, but that didn't help
Has anyone managed successfull BT streaming...
This headset supports the following standards:
Bluetooth version:
2. with enhanced data rate (EDR)
Bluetooth profiles:
Handsfree profile (HFP) .5
Headset profile (HSP) .
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) .2
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) .0.

/Re: Zen Style M300 Bluetooth Streaming ProblemsIHi KokChoy
Proximity & different headphones don't seem to help, and the included audio-book shows the same problem...
However some good news : the M300 streams OK to a friend's Jawbone Jambox speakers so it'slooks like the BT on the M300 does meet some of the BT standards.
My Samsung Q330 Laptop streams OK to the Nokia BH24 headset, which shows that this device?is not faulty.
It just looks like that the BT streaming from the M300 somehow?doesn't match the BT of the BH24
Specs for the jambox are these, which appear to be the same as the BH24 on my st post - strange
http://www.jawbone.com/speakers/jambox/specs
Bluetooth
Wireless Range: at least 33 feet<
Bluetoothv2. compliant<
Supports Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)<
Profiles Supported: Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) .2, Hands-Free Profile (HFP) .5, Headset Profile (HSP) .<
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Zen Style M300 & Android

Hello
Can any one suggest anything for me please, I have a Zen Style M300 which has Bluetooth on. I don't want my music on my Adnroid phone as it does not have much storage space, so wanted to know could I stream my music to my android phone via bluetooth so that I could listen to my music and also be able to use my running app on my phone, (which also talks to me) so don't want to different headsets....

Originally Posted by dwprices
Hello
Can any one suggest anything for me please, I have a Zen Style M300 which has Bluetooth on. I don't want my music on my Adnroid phone as it does not have much storage space, so wanted to know could I stream my music to my android phone via bluetooth so that I could listen to my music and also be able to use my running app on my phone, (which also talks to me) so don't want to different headsets....
Hi dwprices,
What Android device are you using?
- Based on my understanding, I believe that Android devices commonly have an SD Card slot (I am currently using Samsung Galaxy SIII with an external MicroSD Slot)
May I also know what particular headset you are using currently?
Cheers!
-Philip-CL

ZEN Style M300 AutoShutdown

Hello Creative's friends.
I have bought 3-4 years ago, my beautiful mp3 player ZEN. In this player, which is very good to me but the storage of 4GB, i had a very suitable option to me, of Timer for Shutdown.
Now i bought the ZEN Style M300 with 16GB. This option is not present, but there is another one which is called "Idle for Shutdown", which i can't understand how it works. I configure it, and gave the time of 2 minutes, but nothing happened.
Could anyone please help me ??????
Thank you very much
Vangelis

Hi vagcreative,
They both function in the same manner. Here is the definition based on the M300 User Guide:
Setting the Idle Shutdown Time
You can specify how long your player can remain inactive before it automatically shuts down. This feature
helps you save battery power.
1. On the main menu, select System Idle Shutdown.
2. Select the setting that you want.
If it does not shutdown after the allocated time, try to update your firmware to the latest version. If that did not solve your issue, please contact our Support team.

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