Creative Zen

[Macky]

Creative zen vision:m 30Gb anybody have one of these?
Was thinking of treating myself for Xmas, any opinions?

 

[Durham Fox]

Creative zen vision:m 30Gb anybody have one of these?
Was thinking of treating myself for Xmas, any opinions?

Get an iPod

 

[Macky]

Get an iPod

gimme a good reason to & I might :icon_wink

 

[MHS]

I don't own or have never owned an iPod or a Zen, but I have used both before.

The iPod is easier to navigate, but uploading songs is easier on the Zen.

 

[Durham Fox]

Id love to know how uploading songs is easier than plugging your ipod in to the USB socket

 

[Macky]

I can't see what benefits the iPod has over it apart from it being slightly thinner.
The zen has better specs & supports more formats than the iPod.

 

[Durham Fox]

I can't see what benefits the iPod has over it apart from it being slightly thinner.
The zen has better specs & supports more formats than the iPod.

Thinner, easier to use and reliability generally.

 

[Ox Fox]

All the Zen products look like the sort of thing they would have on sale at Tandy.

 

[Macky]

Thinner, easier to use and reliability generally.

All the Zen products look like the sort of thing they would have on sale at Tandy.

I agree, the Zen is definitely the one to go for then.

 

[joe501]

I sold my 20GB Ipod to buy a Creative Zen Sleek last year. It is slightly uglier and thicker but the battery life is much better and, more importantly, it is immensely more durable, I have dropped it a number of occasions and it has a dent on the corner but still works perfectly.

The zen seems to be much better made technically, it has only crashed twice compared to the countless times my Ipod crashed!

It also features an FM Radio, although this only works well in cities, as well as other features like microphone and a "DJ" who will select an album of the day or shuffle all your songs among others.

The only fault I can really find is that becuase I used to have an Ipod, I had ripped all of my CDs using itunes, which automatically converted the music files to a different format. This meant I had to rip all of my CDs again in the inferior Creative software. But I think that if you use Windows Media Player already you can simply plug in the zen and choose an option which is something like "transfer all files from windows media library onto zen"!

Overall I would highly reccomend getting a Creative Zen over an Ipod, after owning both products the Zen is surely the way to go.

 

[Macky]

I sold my 20GB Ipod to buy a Creative Zen Sleek last year. It is slightly uglier and thicker but the battery life is much better and, more importantly, it is immensely more durable, I have dropped it a number of occasions and it has a dent on the corner but still works perfectly.

The zen seems to be much better made technically, it has only crashed twice compared to the countless times my Ipod crashed!

It also features an FM Radio, although this only works well in cities, as well as other features like microphone and a "DJ" who will select an album of the day or shuffle all your songs among others.

The only fault I can really find is that becuase I used to have an Ipod, I had ripped all of my CDs using itunes, which automatically converted the music files to a different format. This meant I had to rip all of my CDs again in the inferior Creative software. But I think that if you use Windows Media Player already you can simply plug in the zen and choose an option which is something like "transfer all files from windows media library onto zen"!

Overall I would highly reccomend getting a Creative Zen over an Ipod, after owning both products the Zen is surely the way to go.

good stuff joe, do you have to use the creative software to transfer files or will it just show up as a removeable drive when you connect it to the PC?

 

[joe501]

Yes, it can be used as a removable disk to transfer files as well as the software or wmp.

 

[Macky]

I will check...

good lad :icon_wink

 

[drummindefender]

im getting a new iPod for christmas after mine has broke (mainly due to the fact i dropped it!)-iPod and itunes are ridiculously easy to use-you either let it put the songs on for you automatically or drag and drop! plus iPods support mp3, aac, wav, aiff and theres also apple lossless and any track that is in wma can be converted in aac format using itunes-wheres the problem??????????

 

[drummindefender]

plus th ipod battery is decpetive-it may be on the lowest setting very quickly, but it stays there for ages

 

[Real Sharapova]

I use an old Zen, and it has never let me down, and has been said before it is durable. BTW, did you see Apple came to an out of court settlement with Zen a couple of months back, as the Apple ripped off a lot of the features from Zen, Zen were first on the market, but didn't have the marketing oomph that Apple have.

 

[Macky]

im getting a new iPod for christmas after mine has broke (mainly due to the fact i dropped it!)-iPod and itunes are ridiculously easy to use-you either let it put the songs on for you automatically or drag and drop! plus iPods support mp3, aac, wav, aiff and theres also apple lossless and any track that is in wma can be converted in aac format using itunes-wheres the problem??????????

• your iPod is unusable after you dropped it
• it's limited in the formats that it can handle
• I'd feel like a sheep with those wanky white earphones

 

[Willlow]

All the cool kids have Zens :icon_wink :icon_lol:

 

[homer]

I don't think Zen was very creative at all

The decision to play Rooney up front on his own meant that any real creativity was stifled completely

I'm glad he's gone for good

 

[Willlow]

I don't think Zen was very creative at all

The decision to play Rooney up front on his own meant that any real creativity was stifled completely

I'm glad he's gone for good

That is really bad, far worse the a MK joke :icon_wink