Customer Reviews: Read 59 more reviews...
 Great mp3 player, but music on the SD card is seperate from the music on the built in memory - cant use playlist for SD files October 11, 2008
P. Naughton (Ireland)
The player is great, no fault there. Im happy with my 8GB version, but very dissappointed that music and image on the SD card (when installed) don't appear in the players music or image library.
Reason; The built-in memory is in a library format whilst the SD card is a FAT file format. The 'very nice' music and file menu of the player does not see the SD card content, you must browse the SD card filesystem seperatly to find the files you wish to use, and browsing is not like finding an album, or playing a playlist.
So, you can play music and view images off the SD card, but its not like using an mp3 players library as the typical mp3 player features apply only to the content of the build in memory, not to the SD cards file system.
Go have a look at Creatives support forums for Creatives response to many customers asking for this feature.
 Zen for pod cats October 10, 2008
Mr. Keith Whittle (Hull UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Creative ZEN 4GB MP3 Player
I bought this player to use for podcasts to make my long car journeys more tolerable. To my joy it is real easy to use for those less techy, the BBC radio web site has a podcast section and it has a button called 'zen' and one click and it down loads that pod cast to your MP3 player. The software for pod casts that comes with the zen is great, it is easy to load up on your computer, , it alows you to pick loads of podcasts, checks for updates and then it will synchronise the down loaded podcasts with your Zen. It does the same with all your music too. Top tip, you can buy a cheap plug in (on amazon) that connects to your Zen and sends out a radio signal which is picked up by your car radio or any other radio near it, lovely clear screen, great in the gym too.
 IF ONLY WE COULD GIVE IT NO STARS October 9, 2008
Mr. Andrew P. Mills (beverley east yorkshire)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product has been,without doubt, the biggest sack of crap I have had the misfortune to buy.The first one I received had a maximum battery life of 9 hours instead of the mythical 25 hours on the product description.Creative's (lack of) support staff told me that various factors affect the battery life,even though I informed them we had only put a grand total of 50 songs onto the player.They then told me to download recovery tools,do firmware updates,try resetting it etc. etc.,which I duly did with no improvement.When they still refused to accept that there was a fault I contacted Amazon who were very good and sent me a replacement.They might as well not have bothered,as the replacement is barely any better.The battery life is still not great,the only way I(admittedly a computer divvy) can get the album art onto the player is by using windows media(making the zen media explorer pointless)and to top it all after downloading 25 cds onto it,it has told me to disconnect it from my computer and,after doing so,it has frozen,leaving me to wonder if I have just wasted the last few hours.The tat they sell on price drop tv for half the price cannot be any worse than this and the extra you pay for this branded product certainly isn't buying you any customer support from Creative
 Creative Zen 4B September 23, 2008
P. Layton (Bristol, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought Creative after getting cheesed off having to install the dreadful iTunes with my ipod all the time. Creative make cheap electronics and it feels a bit plasticky, but it does its job just fine.
Pros:
* Good memory capacity;
* SD card expansion;
* drag and drop or use with Windows Media Player seamlessly (unlike iTunes - a big plus if you ask me!!!);
* glossy design with a decent size screen
Cons:
* Unintuitive interface, e.g. pressing the central button doesn't play song - the play button is a small one on the side, almost an afterthought, whch seems strange given it's the raison d'etre of the device;
* FM radio doesn't work AT ALL! Don't buy this unit with the radio in mind, it's non-existent;
* Volume is on the quiet side
help! it turned off and wont turn on again September 17, 2008
Mr. Aaron S. Nahil (UK)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
my zen packed in after about 5 weeks..it turned off and now will not turn back on. how do i contact amazon? does it need to be within the 30 day gurantee for me to get it replaced? im confused. help!
|
