Zen Touch transfer er

I finally was able to get my computer to recognize my zen player but now i cant transfer more than 27-00 songs depending which one i start at. i called customer service and they told me to download all the new updates and stuff and installed them and try again and it still doesn't work. i tried to do the disk clean-up an reformatted it like they said too but i still cant get the songs to transfer over. It does the first few than says error: cannot write or something along those lines and waits 20 seconds then moves to the next which does the same. i also just got the player if that makes a difference. Any advice?

Thanks, that really helped. i have thus far concluded that it was the fact that i dont have ID3 tags on all my songs and some of the song names have symbols in them like japanese/chinese character and the alt+number pad ones too. i guess they arent supported on the touch like the ipod. which makes it kind of a pain to use because now i have to go through 7 gigs of music and change the song titles and tags. fortunately i have help. also, would having a usb 2.0 really make a difference other than transfer speed on the download to player? thanks again

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Zen touch transfer prob

Hi, I'm running win2k usb2.0. I'm only able to transfer about 7 mp3 files before nomad tells me that an unknown failure occurred. The zen touch then stays in docking modus and I have to reboot it. Can someone tell me why that is?

Could be a lot of reasons. Have?a look here in the Zen FAQ at Nomadness.net.

Zen Touch, Transfer Ra

Has anybody actually measured the transfer rates using various software to the Zen Touch? (ie Creative MediaSource, WMP0, etc.). I have tried 3 programs, WMP0, MediaSource and Yahoo Music Engine. My perception is that Mediasource is the fastest, YME second, and WMP0 is the slowest. However, that's just a perception--never measured it nor do I know how to measure it.

I've also seen varying rates mentioned, particularly WMP being slow for the older Zens. Although I'm not sure why this should be, other than for some processing overhead, as they're all using the same drivers.
To measure the data rate is pretty easy. Transfer across a reasonable number of files, say 00Mb+. Then simply time how long it takes (using a stopwatch, second-hand of your watch etc.). Then divide the amount of data (easily done by selecting the files transferred, and right-clicking to get their properties) by the time taken. Usually data rates are quoted in Mb/s.
With USB I used to get a fairly horrific 300kb/s. With firewire I used to get around 3Mb/s. And with my latest computer and USB2 I'm getting around 5Mb/s.

PLEZ HELP! Zen touch transfer iss

Hi, im havin some issues with my zen touch. It connects fine to mediasource (meanin im able to see zen touch under sources and see the music stored on my touch etc) and i can sometimes transfer music to it from my comouter via usb. However sumtimes it doesnt work, i.e i'l be able to send anywhere between -20 songs to it and then the next song i try to transfer an error message is displayed on media source "player is either busy or not connected, please try again later" then i'l have to leave it for at least half an hour and repeat the process until the problem arises again. U can understand how annoying this is for me especially since im trying to put such a large music collection onto my player. Can any help. i will be grateful 4 any possible solutions..

AliClifton: Connection and transfer issues are always tricky to troubleshoot because it can be many things.
The first thing to try is a disk cleanup, which is very simple to do. To access the Rescue Mode hold down the play button and KEEP it held down, press the tiny reset switch once, and KEEP the play button held down until the player boots into the Rescue Mode. Choose Disk Cleanup from the menu. Note: Disk cleanup should not remove your tracks. It searches through the disk for files and rebuilds the index, and can be useful for correcting any strange behaviour.
Secondly, make sure you have the latest drivers, software and firmware from Nomadworld.com downloads.
Thirdly, check whether the player has the same problem on a friend's PC.

How to transfer files from Creative Zen Touch to Creative Vision:

Is there a way to transfer my music files from my Creative Zen Touch to my Vision:M?If so, can someone tell me how to do this. ?I know this has probably been asked before but I am new on this message board and am in need of assistance. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

If you have both the player and you're using MediaSource, just connect both the player to the computer, select one of the player as source and the other as destination and just transfer over it. Note, protected content will not be transfer over though.
JasonMessage Edited by Jason-CL on 03-27-2006 06:54 PM

Zen Touch: Device to PC transfer er

I recently formatted my harddri've and want to put all my music back on my PC before I upgrade my Zen Touch's firmware as to not lose all my music and have to go through the whole process again.
BUT....when I select all of my songs in Media Source and press the 'right' arrow to transfer to the correct folder, I run into a slight problem. A few songs will transfer, but then I will get errors the rest of the process. I've updated firmware/app/driver as far as I can before it erases data. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I cannot find a solution to this. Is this just an isolated problem? Or, are there ways around this?
Thnak you.

Have you:
- Download and install the latest Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer 3.30.2 from your product download site.
- Download and install the latest Creative Zen and NOMAD Jukebox plugin 2.00.9 for Creative MediaSource from your product download site.

Zen touch intermittent transfer probl

Hi, just bought a 20gb Zen touch, and I am getting errors when transfering mp3's via Media Source.
I have installed the latest firmware and drivers. It seems to transfer between 800-000 files ok then errors with "Player either not connected or busy - please try later" I have reset the player, formatted the dri've, in fact tried everything in the rescue menu. I have also loaded the software on my laptop and get the same
problem. Do I have a faulty Zen? Cheers.

If you were the only person to encounter it then I would say you had a faulty Zen, but others have had it with other players also. There's lots of connection troubleshooting advice here in the Zen FAQ at Nomadness.net, some of it relevant and some of it not.
I would personally buy a known good USB card for the desktop PC i.e. Belkin or Adaptec, and see if that solves it. It's not a particularly great solution, but it will tell you straight away if the issue is the USB chipset. Try and buy the card somewhere you can return it if it doesn't help.

Zen Touch File Transfer/Software iss

First, the nitty gritty:
I'm running Windows XP
MediaSource version 3.30.2Firmware version .0.03
In the beginning... I decided I wanted to upgrade my software and firmware to the PlaysForSure versions. The details of the program information said to be sure to backup all of my music seeing as how everything would be deleted during the installation process so I hooked up my 40G Zen Touch to my new laptop, opened up the MediaSource Organizer, adjusted the library settings to drop the music files into an Artist/Album tier and have the file with just the song title. I selected all 8700-some-odd files and began the process of transferring everything onto my laptop. I made sure there was plenty of space for all the files, but not long into the "B's" I started getting the error message: "Error: Unable to read file. File may be in use or corrupted". From that point on I could no longer transfer any files to my computer. I deleted the rest of the que, unplugged the device and took a look at the library. For every file that hit an error it would still drop a file with the track name into a folder of the album within a folder of the artist name - but the actual file was empty, no Kbs. From there I made sure I had the newest and most recent upgrades and plugins (prior to PlayForSure) to fix any bugs. I deleted all the transferred files and started over - again, in the "B's" I got the same message. I repeated this on a different computer with the same results. Once I get the error none of my songs will transfer.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
-p-

<SPAN>Here's the thing - we started out as friends, Zen Touch and I...
<SPAN>I double-checked the software and plug-in versions to make sure I had the most current. I attached the device and opened WMP. I can't figure out how to take files from the Zen Touch and put them on to my PC library. I need to transfer my entire cache of music from my Zen to the computer. And I just now realized that when trying to use the MediaSource Organizer earlier it put a file on my computer with the folder name "Man.." and I can't delete it. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that the file name contains two periods - I can't rename the file either, all I get when I try is an error that says "cannot delete: cannot read from the source file or disk". This is getting quite frustrating. More likely than not I don't need the new PlaysForSure upgrade but ) I cannot stand not having the latest upgrade and 2) I need to be able to transfer files easily between the device and my comp, which I was able to do until recently. Again, I beg the techno powers that be - HELP!

Direct transfer from camera to zen touch? -usb host- possib

I have Zen touch 40gb,is there usb host function or similiar way to transfer photos from my digital camera(Canon eos-400d) without using computer? i mean direct transfer from camera to my zen touch?thanks in advancebrgds

No, I am afraid it isn't possible. At least, I found this on the "Notmad Explorer" website:
Q:Can I transfer files directly from a digital camera to my player?
A:This is an interesting idea, but unfortunately, the players do not have the hardware or firmware necessary to directly communicate with other USB devices such as cameras. There's nothing we can do about this in software.
Hope that helps!

How do I transfer mp3 files into my Zen touch playe

Hi guys / gals,
I am the most " illiterate" person on earth when it comes to MP3 files and Creative is not very customer friendly so I really need you help.
I have all my MP3 files loaded but I don't know how to transfer them to my Zen touch and creative "WON'T" respond to my questions.
Can someone please help me ? Thanks.

Open up Normand Explorer and plug in your Zen (download all the drivers and stuff first" From Normand Explorer, go to Zen Touch, Music. Then just copy/past or drag all your songs into Normand Exploere, and the music goes onto the Touch.

Zen Touch/Vista and Slow Transfer - Any Advice?

/Zen Touch/Vista and Slow Transfer - Any Advice?s I recently purchased a new PC with the new Intel i7 quadcore chip running vista.
Everything running blazingly fast, except music transfers to my Zen Touch.
Did the firmware upgrade on my old XP PC (after rolling back Windows Media Player to v0 as mentioned).
Loaded MediaSource 5 on the new Vista PC with the proper drivers (the "playforsure" one, plus the CD burning one). Copied all my media files to the new PC using an external hard-dri've.
I have the 40GB Zen Touch, started transferring all of my 0,888 WMA files to it (96kbps), which normally may take the better part of a day, or overnight,?on the old XP machine.
I'm going on about 2 /2 days now (with the new PC, new firmware, new MediaSource software/drivers)?and finally it's almost finished.
It?started out like gangbusters, song ever second or two, but with each transfer seemed to slow, now doing about song per minute!
I've heard the 'playforsure' software slows things down...but this seems ridiculous. Is there anything I can do?

kovach wrote:
I recently purchased a new PC with the new Intel i7 quadcore chip running vista.
Everything running blazingly fast, except music transfers to my Zen Touch.
Did the firmware upgrade on my old XP PC (after rolling back Windows Media Player to v0 as mentioned).
Loaded MediaSource 5 on the new Vista PC with the proper drivers (the "playforsure" one, plus the CD burning one). Copied all my media files to the new PC using an external hard-dri've.
I have the 40GB Zen Touch, started transferring all of my 0,888 WMA files to it (96kbps), which normally may take the better part of a day, or overnight,?on the old XP machine.
I'm going on about 2 /2 days now (with the new PC, new firmware, new MediaSource software/drivers)?and finally it's almost finished.
It?started out like gangbusters, song ever second or two, but with each transfer seemed to slow, now doing about song per minute!
I've heard the 'playforsure' software slows things down...but this seems ridiculous. Is there anything I can do?
From the recovery /rescue mode on the player do a Cleanup>Reboot. the more files you have on it the slower the dri've may become since it's getting full. Also WMP works faster at least for me with syncing files.

Zen Touch File Transfer/Stor

Im thinking of buying a Zen Touch in the next few weeks but i have one niggling doubt which i haven't been able to resolve over its file storage capabilities.
Can i simply drag and drop file onto it without the need for seperate software, as i intend to make use of my colleges T3 connection and i do not have user privliges to install new software or drivers?
Sorry if this has been brought up before, i couldn't find any info on the matter.

To do so with the zen touch you will need nomad explorer. A program that ties into windows explorer.
If you will need a player that does this take a look at the Zen Micro. You can partition 2GB on the hard dri've of the micro for data only and if you do so it should show up as a removable dri've.
Torstein.

Zen Touch 40GB: USB connection dies mid-transfer.

I just received a brand new 40GB Zen Touch. While transferring a group of songs to it (whether via MediaSource or Media Player) it successfully transfers a few before freezing, waiting for a minute, and then claiming that either the Zen Touch is no longer connected or is busy. The only way to remedy the problem is to unplug the USB cable and reconnect - after which the same cycle is always repeated (a few songs, then freezing...).
Can anyone advise?
Thanks in advance.

Search on "connection problems" in the FAQ post.

Zen Touch 40 gig Transfer Probl

Hey everyone, I know there are a lot of posts similar to this, but I can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I have had my Zen Touch for under a month now. Everything was working fine until I got up around 800 songs and I got a message telling me that the player was either busy or not connected. I couldn't add any more songs to it. This was very frustrating, but at the time, I didn't feel like fooling with it. I came back to it a week later, and found that I could add songs just fine. I added a few hundred more, and then a new message came up: "Unable to create file. Restart player and try again." I can't get anything to work. When I start the Mediasource Organizer, it reads my Zen just fine and is able to show its library. After I shut down the organizer, the Zen still shows that it is docked. It used to go back to the normal player screen when I shut down the organizer. I think it may be frozen now.
This seems to be a very common problem for these Zens. I've already tried several approaches to try to fix them. One common fix seems to be to shut down all background programs. This did not do anything for me. I would like to add that if at all possible, I don't won't to lose my music files that are already on the Zen. Not only did it take a huge amount of time to put 2000+ songs on it, but I do not have backup files of some of the files. Thanks so much.
Ryan

I would also like to point out that when I get these error messages and my Zen freezes, I can't shut down my computer properly. When I try to shut down, I get the message "CTPdesrv.event.handler.window" is not responding. Click end now to terminate..." Even when I choose to end now, it doesn't really do anything. My computer just continues to sit there, not shutting down. I'm forced to shut down with the button.

DO NOT BUY CREATIVE ZEN TOUCH 2

I cannot begin to explain the problems I have had with the Zen Touch that I bought 2 Weeks ago. The long and short of it is the original device that I bought, I could not transfer songs to it. Dowmloading the latest Firmware / Drivers / Application etc made no difference whatsoever. Problems ranging from errors like 'Device is busy or not attached', to copying songs across and them showing on Creative Media Organiser but not showing on the device itself. Also problems with the device freezing and having to wait for the battery to run out before it would work again. After lengthy phone calls to someone on support who could neither speak or understand english, I arranged for another one to be sent to me, in return for the faulty one. And guess what, the new one has exactly the same faults as the original. I have uninstalled the software on numerous occasions thinking that it may be a faulty install. Set it all up on my machine at work, and my friends machine at work, only for the same problems to occur when transferring songs. To top it all, I sent 3 messages to the support link on the creative web site, only to have a response to, yep you guessed it, NONE of them in FOUR DAYS. My advice to anyone who is thinking of buying a Zen Touch, or any other Creative Labs product come to think of it is, is to go out in the back garden and set fire to the money instead. Just incase anyone thinks I am doing something wrong, I work for a software company, and I know that if we sent a product / gave a support service that was as poor as that I have received, I would be out of a job in 5 minutes. I am Going to get my money back and go for an iPod, telling everyone I know to steer well clear of creative. Thanks for listening.

"If the mailer I received from Cambridge Soundworks yesterday (a Creative complany) is any indication, buying a 20GB Zen Touch or even Sleek would be a bad move. It looks like the Sleek is already being relegated to the status of "**bleep** stepchild" in the Zen line-up, which is where Touch has been for a while. The latest ad from Cambridge Soundworks was pushing the Micros, Nanos, Muvos and even Neeons. But no Sleeks."
You comments don't make much sense. The Sleek is a new model and is probably backordered by many dealers. That is probably why Creative is not promoting it heavily on its own. Demand from Creative's retailers is probably more than enough to consume the production for a while.
"But that's not what's interesting. It's what product <B>was</B> prominently featured: The Zen 20GB. This is the player that looks like a fat Zen Micro in a black case, previously available only in Asia. "
That does seem to make sense though, since Creative probably didn't make enough of them for a full retail store roll out in the US, so they probably decided that that selling them directly would be a good move. National retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, Office Depot, etc. want products to be available in huge quantities otherwise they don't want to sell them.

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