Zen Vision 30GB SYNC is absurdly S

I upgraded from a 20GB Jukebox Zen Xtra to a Vision 30GB (NOT the M model) and have had a nightmare trying to transfer all my music files (about 20GB) from the Jukebox to my new Vision player. In Media Organizer, my Zen Xtra opens fine, lists the files quickly, and sync'd all the files to my desktop computer in less than an hour. (There were a few errors on some files but that's another story). But loading them from the computer to the Zen Vision in Media Organizer is ridiculous. It takes over 5 minutes just to load the Vision contents, and then it transfers at a rate of about a track or two a minute. At this rate it will take over 24 hours to load all the tracks on to my player. I was expecting the new player to be faster than the old one, not slower! This is unacceptable! Is there any kind of error anyone knows about that I could have introduced somehow to slow things down? This can't be the way it's supposed to work!

i'm feeling ya brother, i upgrade mine xtra 40G to ZVM as well, and when i open my music list, it's usually 0 min wait, so what i do is go do some dishes then come back. Or you can try to use media monkey, it's faster than mediasource, but somehow it doesn't let you edit as much mp3 tags as the mediasource.

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