Creative Mp3 players

[DJD]

Does anybody have any experience of these players, the one I am looking at in particular is the Zen Touch 20gb player. Any info is very much appreciated.

>> Edited by DJD on Monday 8th August 09:26

[ulakye]

I've had a couple of Creative Zen MP3 jukeboxes and they have both been excellent. The sound quality is very good and the interface with Windows is userfriendly. They have a decent battery time.

I can't really say there is a downside other than they are slightly bigger than such things as Ipods etc.

You also might want to check what file formats they can handle. I only use MP3s so I don't know about other formats.

The bottom line is that I would highly recommend them.

[Fer]

I have a Zen NX 30G, and am very pleased with it. A little larger than a ipod, but better battery life (at the time) and also you can get spare batteries to fit, rather than having to have it sent away.

[dieseljohn]

I have a MUVO something or other 512mb. I really like it except that it plays the tracks in alphabetical order instead of the order they were on the cd. I suppose there is a way of fixing this but I havent found it yet.

[AquilaEagle]

Very good, much better than an I-Plop

[djd]

Cheers for the replies guys, I had a look at one this lunchtime. Seem a nice piece of kit, a little bit of weight to it and rechargable by mains.

[mcflurry]

dieseljohn said:

I have a MUVO something or other 512mb. I really like it except that it plays the tracks in alphabetical order instead of the order they were on the cd. I suppose there is a way of fixing this but I havent found it yet.

Rename the files with prefix 01..02..03..04 etc

[nuclearsquash]

my mrs has a Creative Zen Micro 20gb. A very nice compact little player it is too. very good sound reproduction, you definately have to be aware of the quality of downloads you might get

Definitely worht the money, and available in a nice range of colours.

[Lord Elmo]

nuclearsquash said:

my mrs has a Creative Zen Micro 20gb. A very nice compact little player it is too. very good sound reproduction, you definately have to be aware of the quality of downloads you might get Definitely worht the money, and available in a nice range of colours.

I too have one of those. Wonderfull little thing.

[LongQ]

I have a 40Gb Zen Extra. 15 months old. Very happy, does all it claims to do including the 14hr battery life.

Tracks can be played in track or alphabetic order - or random. But an initial load of pre-ripped music may lack the info required to use all of the database features.

The software supplied can be used to edit the contents though, so any problems of lack of data detail can be fixed.

The earphonse seemed quite good - but I use either Shure E3c or Etymotic ER4-P canalphones for improved comfort and noise isolation. Heartily recommended.