Creative Zen V Plus 8 GB Portable Media PlayerReviews: Creative Zen V Plus 8 GB Portable Media Player
Binding: Electronics Brand: Creative Labs Color: Blk/Blue Display Size: 1.5 inches EAN: 0054651139381 Item Dimensions: Label: Creative Labs Manufacturer: Creative Labs Model: 70PF2073001Y1 MPN: 70PF2073001Y1 Publisher: Creative Labs Studio: Creative Labs Warranty: 1 year warranty Features:
Rating:  - AWESOME PLAYER WITH ONLY ONE DRAWBACK.......I love this player!! I would choose this player over an iPod Nano. It has album art, video playback, pictures (you can download your own pictures to it too), and several other neat features. The only real drawback to this player is the fact that it does not support Mac OS X which, as you can guess, your player will not hook up to a Mac computer. I just got a brand new Mac right after I got my MP3 player and found out that I cannot hook it up to my new computer. Besides that, I love it!. Would recommend it to anyone. Rating:  - Love It!I love this little gem. I wanted an MP3 player that I could listen to books on tape with. I have had this for a few months now. It has excellant sound quality and enough room to hold several books and music too. The menus are fairly easy to navigate and you can bookmark your place fairly easily. It's tiny so it fits in the pouches of workout shorts easily. Earphones are junk just like all earphones that come with MP3 players. I purchased these and am very happy JBuds Hi-Fi Noise Reducing Ear Buds for iPod (Black) I also purchased the portable speaker made specifically for the zen Creative Travelsound Zen V see reviews. I am happy with my purchase and would buy a zen again. Rating: - space for music and space in your pocketI am upgrading to the 8GB model from the 4GB, which I have filled up. I download at a 320bps sample rate (Itunes is at about 190bps), which probably isn't necessary, but I still got over 400 songs on the 4GB player even at that. The sound quality is quite good, and there is plenty of volume available. I upgraded to the Shure headphones which wrap around your ears and thus won't fall out when running, etc. I am a bit concerned that the lower menu button on my 4GB player seems intermittent. I may be doing something wrong, but often when I push it, it just pauses or restarts the present song like the top button is supposed to do instead of returning me to the previous menu. If it gets to where it does this all the time, I won't be able to use the player. I have not read of others complaining of this problem, so perhaps it is a fluke. The small size of this player is great for me. I would love to have a 60GB player and put virtually all of my music on it. But if it won't fit in my pocket and not be noticeable, what is the advantage of that? I don't care about photos or videos, but I do find that I enjoy having the album art pop up with the song. It's a connection to the music. I think the ipod nanos are cute and slim, but who needs Itunes???? I received my new 8gb player. Creative has now changed the 8gb to red trim instead of blue like the 4gb. I was pleased to get going with it, these are great little players.... ....when they work. This one didn't. It froze up on me, something that has happened just a couple of times with the 4gb, so I knew how to use a guitar string to reset it. Then it froze again on "rebuilding library". Uh oh...well, then I had to go to the recovery menu and use the "scan disk" to find corrupted files. It froze at 100% of the scan. Next I reformatted, wiping out all loaded songs to start over. This seemed to work, and I had reloaded about 1/3 of my songs when it froze again during song transfer. Same thing, reset and then it stalled on "rebuilding library". This time in desperation I downloaded new firmware from the creative site to see if this would give it a new start. But when I tried to load the new firmware, the player was not recognized by the software. Dead in the water, I called Creative tech support for help. He immediately pronounced it dead. Send it back. Now it will be weeks before I can give it another try. What a negative experience. Like I said, I love these players and they sound great and are so portable and not tied to stupid I-tunes. But they appear to be a little flimsy. Creative knows about the "rebuilding library" problem, because it is on their website. Unfortunately their solution of reboot, clean up, reformat, reinstall does not solve the problem. Rating: - The recipient of this gift was v. pleasedI purchased this for my Mom's 60th birthday. She had it on her wish list & said she'd prefer it over my IPod Nano. She loves it & says it's v. user friendly. The best part is, our local library offers an online free download for audio books for card holders. It's not available in Ipod formats, so she is also able to DL freebies currently unavailable to my Ipod! Rating: - Almost perfectI have an ipod and now also this one. I love them both but they are not perfect yet. Pros: - Operating system far better than ipod one specially because of features such us: seeing details of songs like year, bitrate, etc; adding songs to playlist on the go; delete option; etc - Adding photos is easy and direct. You do not need to stick to itunes dictatorship. -Audio quality is very good. Sound level as well. - Radio option is convenient. - Photo browsing is easy. - Browsing is fine through keys. Sometimes you hate ipod is so touch sensitive specially if you forget to press hold key. Cons: - Slow transfer speed. Compared to ipod it takes ages to transfer songs. I read it can be because of less quality of flash memory which slows all process. Nothing to do with usb2 because ipod is fast in the same computer. - Slow on speed. It takes time to wake it up. I recommend it. I put 4 stars so people at Creative improve speed in future gens. Creative Zen V Plus 8 GB Portable Media Player ReviewsMore reviews:Buy Creative Zen V Plus 8 GB Portable Media Player Sale Reviews Deals
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