Zen Xtra organizing

I have updated my Zen Xtra 30G Firmware to 2.0.03 and my creative media source to 5: v3.30.2... I no longer am able to use my Nomad explorer and find that the Zen Xtra Media Explorer(ZEME) does not fcilitate organizing my MP3 player as well as Nomad Explorer(NE) did ex. in NE i can easily review by genre or artist and then click on the track and do a bulk edit of genre or artist etc. can't seem to do that with(ZEME) or creative media source. Is it possible to use NE with the updated Zen Xtra or am I resigned to muddling through with ZEME or Creative Media Source 5

martini480 wrote:
I have updated my Zen Xtra 30G Firmware to 2.0.03 and my creative media source to 5: v3.30.2... I no longer am able to use my Nomad explorer and find that the Zen Xtra Media Explorer(ZEME) does not fcilitate organizing my MP3 player as well as Nomad Explorer(NE) did ex. in NE i can easily review by genre or artist and then click on the track and do a bulk edit of genre or artist etc. can't seem to do that with(ZEME) or creative media source. Is it possible to use NE with the updated Zen Xtra or am I resigned to muddling through with ZEME or Creative Media Source 5
Nomad Explorer will not see the device.

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Holms wrote:
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