Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in iPods & MP3 Players
As MP3 players go, this one has almost all of the features of the ZUNE, but is much, much easier to operate and use. Storing and playing back MP3's is easy. I loaded 149 albums into my MP3 player and arranged it easily within the span of less than 15 minutes. A process that was difficult, tedious and damned near impossible with Zune. Unlike Zune and its other competitors, the Zen can be accessed directly through your computer using the "My Computer" icon, copy and paste procedures without using any of the included software. However, if you use the included software, you can do much more. The Zen can hold data files, which Zune and other players will not. I own a Philips MP3 player which to me is nothing more than trash compared to the Zen with the Zune (expensive trash) coming in 2nd to the Philips. Super trash for me is the iPod which was expensive, broke twice and caused me to search for another player in the first place. The only MP3 player I have ever owned which holds a candle to the Zen is the MuVO TX FM thumbdrive player I have taken on countless flights across the country for several years now. For ease of use and programmability, the MuVO was the simplest and easiest to carry and use, but very limited in capacity. The Zen has all but wireless capabilities and a larger screen like the Zune, but you know what? Its a better player all the way around. If and when Microsoft decides to open the drive in their Zune player and make more accessible and easier to use without the severely limiting software, Zen will THEN and only THEN have a run for its money. Size-wise, the Zen is small but readable. Operation and use is simple and quick (as I mentioned) unlike its competitors. Albums can be arranged in track order, a plus beyond belief! With all of the aforesaid, the Zen is pound for pound a better deal all the way around. Id give it an excellent rating, however I reserve that for my simple easy-to-use MuVO FM TX which is still used now and then for ease of convenience and lightweight carry power.Read full review
I bought this here on ebay as a malfunctioning player for $65. Just to see what I could do with it. I've found that, on some of these players, there is a freezing problem that seems to go away if you lightly squeeze the player near the play button. So I took mine apart and inserted a folded piece of paper between the front of the player and the mother board at that location. This put a constant slight pressure there holding whichever little solder joint that is bad in place. If I had the skills I would find the spot and re-solder it but this will do. The player works perfectly now. The screen is bright and very watchable. The controls are easy to use and intuitive. (maybe that's because I owned a Zen Touch prior to this) I found many of the little features I wanted the touch to have have been included in this player! Just little things like when listening to random play all and you come across an artist you want to hear more of, you can hit the menu button and with one selection change to listening to that artists songs. With the touch you had to go to settings to change the play mode back to normal and then search your library for that artist in order to listen to them. Anyway, Videos and pictures are clear and bright and the number of supported formats is impressive. The audio sounds excellent. I love this player as much if not more than my Touch. Which I carried with me everywhere! I see no reason to spend the extra $$ on an IPod. This is all you need!Read full review
The Vision has a cool feature that you scroll up and down with the touch of your finger over the main button. However, even though you can select the sensitivity, it is still so sensitive that it selects things I didnt want to select and I have to hit the back button to start my search over again. It gets very frustrating at times! It IS a very cool MP3 Player, and I love the quality of movies I have on it. On other thing I don't appreciate is that you can only have 3 playlists of favorites to get right to. Also, istead of having a list of JUST the albums you have on it, it shows every song so you have to scroll through EVERY song that is on it to get to the album title. That includes EVERY song on EVERY album you have on it! There needs to be a function of folders to avoid this. I have to say though..that I am not a Pro at electronics, and maybe ther IS a way to fix my problem with the selecting of songs. It is VERY easy to put songs or whatever you want on it. The softwear is great!Read full review
Creative labs have been known best for their sound systems, sound cards, etc. Comparing the Zen vision m with the ipod video, the size is relatively the same but the Zen is a little bit thicker and heavier. But for its thickness, you also get more useful features! Featuring a built in FM transmitter, voice recorder (yes with the built in mic) and better battery life on the videos, why not spend the money on a Zen? The color quality is better, and it includes a sync adapter which also has an a/v out port so you can hook it up to your TV! YES you got that right, hook t up to your TV (cables for that is not included but it’s just an a/v out cable you can pick up for no more than 5-10 bucks). Videos you have in your computer, (almost any format) can be directly placed into your Zen and be viewed on the TV with GREAT quality. (I tried it on my 67inch and worked perfectly fine) Share photos on the big screen, and also play music while you are sharing those photos. The battery life on video playback mode is doubled the ipod. Charging the Zen could be a hassle though as it doesn’t include the wall charger. The Zen charges through the USB, and the sync has a port for the wall which is not included. Comes with a nice leather scratch protection case, and great headphones. What more can you ask for? Through my experiences with the ipod, I find the Zen to be MORE user friendly! Accepts a variety of different formats in both video, audio, and pictures. JinRead full review
I bought this mp3 player for my girlfriend who used to have a Sony Vaio (not the laptop) before. The Vaio boasted 40GB of space, but it had quite a few drawbacks. The worst, and of course, knowing Sony should not come as a surprise, was the DRM system. Even if the songs were already in mp3 format, the Sony software would convert them to a proprietary format and then take forever even with USB 2.0 to get them on the player. If your computer crashed and you had to reinstall the operating system, you were doomed. You could not get your songs off the player unless you had previously gone through the process of creating certificates which had to be validated online for the computer that you were storing the songs on. Being the more technical person, I must have ended up transferring about 40 cds on the player over 5 times, and it became very frustrating. When the battery died on the Vaio, I decided to look for a Christmas present for her. I do a lot of research and read through a lot of reviews when it comes to buying electronics. I was interested on hard-drive based players only. I was not a fan of the iPod to begin with since everyone and their mom has it nowadays but I wanted to be thorough and give it the benefit of the doubt. My friends have iPods too so I considered that as well and in the end I decided to go for the 30GB Creative Zen M. Here are some of the pros and cons: Pros: *Zen M has plenty of storage space. Perhaps not 80 GBs or more like the ipod, but you can go up to 60 GB. That is a LOT of space. If you're lying down in a hospital with every bone in your body broken and you're wrapped in gauze like a mummy while watching movies on an mp3 player suspended from the ceiling for hours, chances are you will not end up using all the space. So why pay for it. *The screen quality on the Zen (over 220k colors) is superior to that of the ipod (64k). The Zen can play MP3, WAV, WMA, ADPCM, Protected WMA (DRM) audio formats whereas the ipod can play AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, Audible and Apple Lossless. The Zen screen is bigger too. As far as video formats go, the Zen is amazing. It can play DivX 4, DivX 5, XviD5, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9 and MPEG. Compare that to just being able to play MPEG-4 on the iPod. No need for transcoding either. *With the Zen M you don't need software like iTunes. Actually, you don't need any software to transfer the files. Just plug it in a usb port and it will show up as a removable drive. It's all drag and drop from there. I have also found out to my amazement, that Windows Media Player 11 does a great job in finding the album art. I was surprised since some of the third party software I tried out, cost $ and cannot even find half the albums correctly. *The Zen has a built in FM tuner. iPod does not. *The Zen M has a customizable wallpaper. iPod does not. *You can record voice on the Zen directly without the need for third party accessories as is the case with the iPod. *You can search for songs on the Zen a bit easier than on the iPod. You do a text search or browse by first letter of the artist's name. Cons: *A little bit bulkier than the iPod. Whatever. More bang for the buck that way. *The navigational pad is sensitive and takes a little bit getting used to. The iPod seems to be slightly better. *Also, iTunes has a wider selection of downloadable music. My girlfriend loves her new mp3 player and so do I. We love discovering new features on it. And was a bit cheaper than an iPod.Read full review