Creative Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player Pink
by Creative Labs
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Customer Review: Great Player!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had mine for a couple of days. I bought it without the firmware and documentation. I had to download the firmware and try to figure out how to get the music on the player using Creative Media and after a few hours went back to using Windows Media. I wanted my gentle music on one playlist and the other music on another and to randomly play each. You have to have some kind of knowledge on how to do this, although once you figure it out it's not that hard to do. If you have your music on your computer and just want to download it and play it randomly, you can do that with little or no knowledge. It takes some playing around with the unit to figure out how to do playlists etc. My advice is to not buy it without the firmware and documentation no matter what kind of bargain you think your getting. The unit has great sound and plays "play for sure" songs. If you download music from Wal Mart or any other "play for sure" site this is the player for you. Customer Review: It was pretty Iffy.
Summary: 3 Stars
I am 14, and I recieved a Zen Mirco for christmas of 2005. I was thrilled to own it, and even more thrilled to have matching speakers. I quickly uplaoded dozens and dozens of songs, just jamming to my music. I enjoyed being able to shuffle my music. My mom knew how badly I wanted an mp3 player with a touchpad. The Zen is a thousand times better then an iPod, if you ask me. I was in love, but about a week later, when we went out to watch the fireworks for New years, I had a hard drive failure. I wasn't able to turn it back on. Devestated, I sent it back. It look a little longer then they said it would, but I was thrilled when i finally got it back 1 1/2 monthes later.
I still had a problem, though. My Zen would not shut down. I chould charge it completely, turn it on, immeadiatly shut it back down, and it would say "shutting down" for hours, until it finally ran out of batteries. There was no way to turn it off without removing the battery. Soon enough, my dad realized why Iw as taking the battery out, re-did the ahrddrive and firmware, and now, it takes a few seconds to turn it off, that's it.
I highly reccommend this item, but be prepared. There could be a time when it needs to be sent away and fixed. If you are willing to work with a problem, this item is for you. I still love my zen, and I bring it with my everywhere.
Being able to create playlists is totally awesome. I have a playlsit devoted to just gentle music to relax me before bed, and I have another list with vibrant, loud music to dance to. You can create doezens of playlists, for any type of music you are craving at that moment.
The fact that it's all in alphabetical order and is catogorized bo genre, album, song title, and/or artist makes it even better.
Customer Review: Great MP3 Player
Summary: 5 Stars
ok, I have had my Creative Zen Micro for about 1 year. It is definitely far and away then the Ipod. First of all, its not an Ipod like everyone has, its something different. No ITUNES to use, Mediasource and Explorer are so simple to use(drag and drop). Battery life is great, I get at least 9+ hours on a charge. Holdability and colors are nice! Next, USB 2.0 kills Firewire point blank! Transferring data is quick and easy. You can also use the player as a Removable HARD DRIVE!! That isn't true on the Ipod. Lastly the FM radio, recording off of the radio, and outlook sync is cool. Other reviewers don't seem to be careful with their player! Also sensitive can be controlled in the system settings!
Apple is far behind this player in most respects. All they really have is a marketing campaign! What person that uses an Ipod has a Mac computer. I would say 1 in 20 or ever more! Get a windows based player for a windows system!
Keys:
-Price I got mine on sale at the time for $179!
-No Apple to deal with Itunes
-Removable Battery
-Great Layout, Menus, Buttons
-Customer Service- Easy to connect to creative on the phone. Very helpful. Getting a hold of Apple is like pulling teeth.
-Plays Many formats mp3, wav, etc and great software too!
-Firmware updates are easy
Downfall:
-Earbuds are not great. I Recommend a pair of Sennheiser headphones highly.
-Need to buy a skin or case if using heavily
-Creative Doesn't market their products
Thanks!
Customer Review: Great player!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this player, this is my second Mp3 player, first one being the Creative Nomad2. Firmware upgrade is a MUST for Zen micro. It was very tough to 'create' cons for this player.
Con:
I am sort of jealous that 'click wheel' belongs to Ipod, the touch pad of Zen Micro is very good, but since its a vertical bar pad, as your thumb reaches the end, you have to lift the thumb for further browing. so much work! but this is an excuse only for extremely lazy guys like me.
Pro:
1.Good Battery life
2.Good Music Quality
2.Drag-and-drop feature doesnt require any 'seamless integration with a software'
3.Compatible to Subscription music(i use Yahoo unlimited)
Other:
with Flash-based players catching up to 5Gb capacity, this might soon vanish.
Customer Review: Creative Products: Truly poor technical quality
Summary: 1 Stars
After several attempts to own a functional Zen Micro, I give up. It should not be this hard; iPod, here I come. My first Zen Micro broke within three months of opening the box. I returned it (a small but manageable hassle). I received an entirely new one about two weeks later, no charge. Two months later, had power management issues with the new one; Creative recommeded an upgrade to the firmware. OK, fine. Three months later, the thing completely crashes -- no music, no connectivity to my PC, nothing but a permanent splash screen. I tried the restore mode, but none of the restore functions were working. The thing was dead dead dead.
I called Creative to see what they could do. For $25, they could tell me what I already knew: it wasn't working and needed to be fixed. Then, they made it clear that they would be charging me for whatever it took to fix it. All this despite the fact that THEY sent me this lemon and it was less than a year (read: still within warranty) since I had received it. Great customer service, eh?
Bad product + bad customer service = doomed company. Don't buy a Creative Product.