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 | Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black)
Good product, bad earphones -- 2010-03-09
This is my first MP3 player. I decided on the Creative Zen because of the bookmarking capability and the SD card. I'm disappointed that there isn't more flexibility in the interaction between the Zen and the SD card. Other than that, I like everything about the player except the earphones. They're very big and uncomfortable.
Stopped Working -- 2010-03-08
Stopped working after just two months. Took battery out and tried to reboot, this didn't help. I can't recommend this product.
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 | Creative Zen Mozaic 16 GB MP3 Player (Black)
Creative Zen Mozaic -- 2010-03-04
This is a great little MP3 player. I listen to books when commuting to work, when exercising, or on long trips. It works with many formats, including Audible and WMA. This increases its usefulness. It is also cheaper than an ipod.
I use it exclusively for recorded sound reproduction. I cannot rate the video or radio features.
Can not replace battery. Contains permanent battery only. -- 2010-03-03
This is my first MP3 player so maybe I don't know what others know, but I am astonished to find out that the battery can not be replaced when it no longer holds a charge. Sure I can re-charge the battery now, but I know from past experience that rechargables can only be charged so many times before they no longer hold a charge and must be replaced. In this case, Creative Labs has built in PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE by making sure there is no way to get into the unit to replace the battery and making sure there are NO replacement batteries available. So this $90.00 player can last 6 months or less (??) before I have to throw it into the trash and buy a new one.
Why do we put up with such blatant scamming? I strongly suggest folks buy ONLY players with changable batteries. That is unless folks out there like to support these shyster companies AND have money to throw away.
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 | Creative Labs Zen MX 16 GB MP3 Player (Black)
as good as it gets -- 2010-03-09
So glad I bought this item , so easy to load , and so easy to use , bigger than most mp3 players , but I like the size. Sounds better than previous player , good picture quality , have not tried the video yet . Really like the option of adding memory card to unit .
flawed design -- 2010-03-06
As an mp3 player, the MX is okay except it keeps the screen on using up battery life.
In addition, after two months white lines started appearing on the screen. Support is weak on site and the firmware upgrade does not recognize my mz. We will see how Creative responds to my e-mail.
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 | Creative Zen MX 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)
as good as it gets -- 2010-03-09
So glad I bought this item , so easy to load , and so easy to use , bigger than most mp3 players , but I like the size. Sounds better than previous player , good picture quality , have not tried the video yet . Really like the option of adding memory card to unit .
flawed design -- 2010-03-06
As an mp3 player, the MX is okay except it keeps the screen on using up battery life.
In addition, after two months white lines started appearing on the screen. Support is weak on site and the firmware upgrade does not recognize my mz. We will see how Creative responds to my e-mail.
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 | Creative Labs Zen Mozaic EZ300 4 GB MP3 Player (Black)
It's a decent mp3 player -- 2010-03-06
My zen micro photo just died on me last month and I needed a new mp3 player, I tried out the sansa product line... None of them can drive my headphones(sennheiser HD280's)loud enough to produce any bass(especially the sansa clip). I was rather dissappointed with all of them. I wanted something that JUST plays mp3s that has excellent soud quality an no touch screen. This is the only new mp3 player on the market that qualifies. I plugged it in, linux detected it, I copied my collection over and it plays just fine. The user interface is a little weird compared to the micro photo, and it tends to collect lent in the speaker cavity, otherwise a great player for walking around with headphones on all day. I haven't tried to use the video functionality, but the screen is so small i don't know why anybody would bother.
DO NOT BUY FOR SUBSCRIPTION MUSIC SERVICES -- 2010-03-03
I purchased this to replace my lost Zen Mozaic I purchased last year. This "newer" version (Zen Mozaic EZ300) totally changes the way it is identified by the PC. They stripped out the MTP protocol and replaced it with MSC/UMS protocol. This means the device simply looks like a flash drive when plugged into the computer. It no longer supports DRM so subscription music services WILL NOT WORK with it.
I find this stripping out of the core functionality while labeling it a "newer" version to be very deceptive by Creative. It should absolutely state in the description that this version does not work like the version it replaced. Quite a shame, because the older version was the only one I could find with a built in speaker that worked with services like Rhapsody and Napster. To make matters worse, this version even includes a poorly worded advertisement for Napster (subscription music service) that is really only good for obtaining a handful of unprotected MP3 files.
Bottom line - do not buy this product if you intend to use it for subscription based music services.
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 | Creative Labs Zen X-Fi 2 32 GB MP3 and Video Player with Touchscreen and Built-In Speaker (Black and Silver)
Not as good as it looks -- 2010-03-03
Ok so...for those of us who hate ipods because we don't have i tunes which will not play all of our music this seems like a good alternative but, be warned. The design of the unit is great but it has some really, really annoying qualities about it. For instance, if you want to play an artist's songs, all of them, it plays one and then you have to keep tapping it to play the next one. You are allowed to create a play list from the player but your not allowed to add additional songs to it other than that one song you selected to create the play list in the first place. Annoying.. also the alarm function is cool but it keeps going off even if you've selected a one time alarm. Compatability with the computer is also a nuisance, after I synced all of my songs from windows media player I tried to sync my playlist and it wouldn't do it. I had to use their creative centrale software which is not very user friendly. The menus are disconnected and the there is no ease to this software. The radio function does not work, I get nothing but static and an error message. And finally, for those of you who like ebooks and love to listen to their tunes while reading you should know that this player supports audio books not ebooks. It will play an audio book just fine but you cannot actually read. This was really dissapointing to me because I actually love reading. This was also not very clearly explained in the description of the item on line, it simply said "enjoy books." All in all if I had to do it over again, I would not buy this product nor would I recommend this product its too much of a hassle. My sandisk played better any day and was much more user friendly, too bad I dropped it in the pool. I'm returning it and getting my old sansa with a bigger memory at least I know what I'm getting there.
Don't buy this. -- 2010-03-02
This product does not work as advertised. And it is impossible to get a useful response from their customer service people. Don't buy it!
I have tried for over 2 months to get help from customer service. All I get is generic responses to my specific issues. Finally, after months of frustration trying to deal with the malfunctioning product as well as customer service, their customer service basically admitted to an internal problem and asked me to be patient and wait for a firmware update. There was no estimate about when the firmware update would be issued nor whether or not it would fix my specific problem. Don't expect reasonable responses from Creative Customer service.
I gave up and sent the unit back to Amazon for credit.
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| Creative Labs Zen X-Fi 2 8 GB MP3 and Video Player with Touchscreen and Built-In Speaker (Black and Silver)
Not as good as it looks -- 2010-03-03
Ok so...for those of us who hate ipods because we don't have i tunes which will not play all of our music this seems like a good alternative but, be warned. The design of the unit is great but it has some really, really annoying qualities about it. For instance, if you want to play an artist's songs, all of them, it plays one and then you have to keep tapping it to play the next one. You are allowed to create a play list from the player but your not allowed to add additional songs to it other than that one song you selected to create the play list in the first place. Annoying.. also the alarm function is cool but it keeps going off even if you've selected a one time alarm. Compatability with the computer is also a nuisance, after I synced all of my songs from windows media player I tried to sync my playlist and it wouldn't do it. I had to use their creative centrale software which is not very user friendly. The menus are disconnected and the there is no ease to this software. The radio function does not work, I get nothing but static and an error message. And finally, for those of you who like ebooks and love to listen to their tunes while reading you should know that this player supports audio books not ebooks. It will play an audio book just fine but you cannot actually read. This was really dissapointing to me because I actually love reading. This was also not very clearly explained in the description of the item on line, it simply said "enjoy books." All in all if I had to do it over again, I would not buy this product nor would I recommend this product its too much of a hassle. My sandisk played better any day and was much more user friendly, too bad I dropped it in the pool. I'm returning it and getting my old sansa with a bigger memory at least I know what I'm getting there.
Don't buy this. -- 2010-03-02
This product does not work as advertised. And it is impossible to get a useful response from their customer service people. Don't buy it!
I have tried for over 2 months to get help from customer service. All I get is generic responses to my specific issues. Finally, after months of frustration trying to deal with the malfunctioning product as well as customer service, their customer service basically admitted to an internal problem and asked me to be patient and wait for a firmware update. There was no estimate about when the firmware update would be issued nor whether or not it would fix my specific problem. Don't expect reasonable responses from Creative Customer service.
I gave up and sent the unit back to Amazon for credit.
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| Creative Labs Zen X-Fi 2 16 GB MP3 and Video Player with Touchscreen and Built-In Speaker (Black and Silver)
Not as good as it looks -- 2010-03-03
Ok so...for those of us who hate ipods because we don't have i tunes which will not play all of our music this seems like a good alternative but, be warned. The design of the unit is great but it has some really, really annoying qualities about it. For instance, if you want to play an artist's songs, all of them, it plays one and then you have to keep tapping it to play the next one. You are allowed to create a play list from the player but your not allowed to add additional songs to it other than that one song you selected to create the play list in the first place. Annoying.. also the alarm function is cool but it keeps going off even if you've selected a one time alarm. Compatability with the computer is also a nuisance, after I synced all of my songs from windows media player I tried to sync my playlist and it wouldn't do it. I had to use their creative centrale software which is not very user friendly. The menus are disconnected and the there is no ease to this software. The radio function does not work, I get nothing but static and an error message. And finally, for those of you who like ebooks and love to listen to their tunes while reading you should know that this player supports audio books not ebooks. It will play an audio book just fine but you cannot actually read. This was really dissapointing to me because I actually love reading. This was also not very clearly explained in the description of the item on line, it simply said "enjoy books." All in all if I had to do it over again, I would not buy this product nor would I recommend this product its too much of a hassle. My sandisk played better any day and was much more user friendly, too bad I dropped it in the pool. I'm returning it and getting my old sansa with a bigger memory at least I know what I'm getting there.
Don't buy this. -- 2010-03-02
This product does not work as advertised. And it is impossible to get a useful response from their customer service people. Don't buy it!
I have tried for over 2 months to get help from customer service. All I get is generic responses to my specific issues. Finally, after months of frustration trying to deal with the malfunctioning product as well as customer service, their customer service basically admitted to an internal problem and asked me to be patient and wait for a firmware update. There was no estimate about when the firmware update would be issued nor whether or not it would fix my specific problem. Don't expect reasonable responses from Creative Customer service.
I gave up and sent the unit back to Amazon for credit.
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 | Creative Labs Zen Mozaic EZ300 8 GB MP3 Player (Black)
It's a decent mp3 player -- 2010-03-06
My zen micro photo just died on me last month and I needed a new mp3 player, I tried out the sansa product line... None of them can drive my headphones(sennheiser HD280's)loud enough to produce any bass(especially the sansa clip). I was rather dissappointed with all of them. I wanted something that JUST plays mp3s that has excellent soud quality an no touch screen. This is the only new mp3 player on the market that qualifies. I plugged it in, linux detected it, I copied my collection over and it plays just fine. The user interface is a little weird compared to the micro photo, and it tends to collect lent in the speaker cavity, otherwise a great player for walking around with headphones on all day. I haven't tried to use the video functionality, but the screen is so small i don't know why anybody would bother.
DO NOT BUY FOR SUBSCRIPTION MUSIC SERVICES -- 2010-03-03
I purchased this to replace my lost Zen Mozaic I purchased last year. This "newer" version (Zen Mozaic EZ300) totally changes the way it is identified by the PC. They stripped out the MTP protocol and replaced it with MSC/UMS protocol. This means the device simply looks like a flash drive when plugged into the computer. It no longer supports DRM so subscription music services WILL NOT WORK with it.
I find this stripping out of the core functionality while labeling it a "newer" version to be very deceptive by Creative. It should absolutely state in the description that this version does not work like the version it replaced. Quite a shame, because the older version was the only one I could find with a built in speaker that worked with services like Rhapsody and Napster. To make matters worse, this version even includes a poorly worded advertisement for Napster (subscription music service) that is really only good for obtaining a handful of unprotected MP3 files.
Bottom line - do not buy this product if you intend to use it for subscription based music services.
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 | Creative EP-630 In Ear Noise Isolating Headphones (Black)
Tinny -- 2010-02-27
I bought this since the reviews said it was a good for the price and I had a Creative 830 that I loved. However, I have to increase the volume level over the 830's and the sound is very tinny.
These are good in-ear headphones! -- 2010-02-12
I can't complain about these headphones. They sound great, but I haven't listened to the Sennheiser CX300's. I am curious!
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