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Say you have a list of songs and want to move one up higher in the list, you can't connect your Zen and do it that way. I bought some blue tooth headphones to have cordless. I bought this as my first MP3 player. I'm not sure exactly how the bookmark works, but when I'm listening and turn it off, it saves where I was. Oh, another thing. Cons: it won't upload information. You can only add and delete.
But, other than that I've been happy with it. If you want a lot of books or a few long books, you need more.
I like that. It also doesn't have that much memory.
I did the research and wanted one good for audiobooks. I've only found you have to make the changes to the playlist in the computer and re-upload the playlist to the Zen.
Well, it doesn't have an internal transmitter for that function so they don't work. I turn it back on and I'm at the same spot.
So, you can download to it, but you can't manage the info or change it through your computer.
Re-setting didn't help the problem, so I am once again sending it in. I mailed it in for repair through my service contract, and the company sent me back a refurbished product. Within the first month, it conked out. I will probably just buy a completely new product (from a different company). Throughout the next 10 months it would often freeze (most noticably if I was fast-forwarding through a track) but came back to life after re-setting. I originally purchased this product from a big box store in October '07, despite reviews saying that problems were common.
Luckily I purchased the service plan because I've had to put it to good use. It worked fine for 6 weeks until the beginning of November, when it would freeze and display "Playback error" on the product's screen. I do a lot of commuting, so I planned to use it for music and audiobook files. In August '08 it completely froze; re-setting didn't help. but figured I may as well get this repaired since I've paid for the service. I really liked the functionality of the product (simple to use, easy menus/navigation, easy importing) but the inconvenience of common breakdowns is not worth it.
The store replaced it on the spot because I was within 30 days.
I had no trouble initially getting songs on the player, the playlist feature worked well. My second unit, I only maybe used a MAXIMUM of 10 times before the screen went black.
In lieu of sending back a third time, I cut my losses and purchased another brand.I had no problem with the sound quality or ease of use of this player -- actually my new player's sound isn't quite as good as this was. I was able to remember how to "navigate in the dark" to get to my playlists, but obviously not very ideal.
This was my first MP3 player. Because there's a tiny piece which connects inside the player, there was no way to reattach and have work --- so I had pay $30 plus shipping to send and have a new unit sent out.
Based on my own experience, I can't recommend this player. Unfortunately didn't work out so well.
Unfortunately, after about 20 uses, the sliding power/on off button came off.
They are a little less expensive, and you don't have to worry about music rights attached to music files that prohibit the number of times a music file is transferred. Overall, I like Creative products and I like them much better than IPods. This is good if you're looking for a player with not a lot of space to store files or view videos. The only problem I've run into is that sometimes it stops playing for a second or two for no apparent reason.
I really did enjoy the Zen V when it was working properly (great for audio books except for Netlibrary's long files), but it's freezing problems and short life make it a poor value. I would urge anyone considering buying this product to go to eBay and do a search for "Zen V as is", and then search under completed items to see all of the non-functioning Zens that are for sale for parts. It looks like there will be a Cowon D2 in my future, no more Creative. I purchased a Zen V 4 GB In February, it has now died in October. So I have had 9 months of use for my money, all the time carrying a paper clip in my wallet to reset this buggy player.
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