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The battery life is extremely short. Anyone who would pay $100 for this device is seriously not in their right frame of mind. Sound quality is average at best.I now realize why Apple has the brand loyalty it has. It doesn't charge as it's supposed to. Anyone who would actually pay the MSRP of $200 is an outright sucker.Here goes: My player constantly crashes. The library deletes itself whenever it wants.
I hadn't used it for about two or three months, and, like I mentioned, suddenly it had lines in the screen.Beside that, It's wonderful. I was so upset. I think it won't die if you use it everyday. But it works fine, but I can't bear to think that in any moment it will die.
When I got this MP3, it worked great, I got it playing music the first day. You can change the background that's cool. My dad uses it everyday and it's perfect. But, a few years later, I think they were two, it started to get lines in the screen.
My dad has one and has had no problem with it. I really enjoyed it but I don't like that it's dying. My big brother told me that means its dying. I loved it.
I tried to follow their trouble shooting suggestions on their site but I still can't get my player to return back to the original screen. And you will get no help from the good folks at Creative. I bought my Creative Zen V Plus 4 GB a year ago. Did not have any problems until about two weeks ago. So buyers please beware that if you buy this product save your information because you may very well lose it after a year. My son suggested I hit the reset button and my zen came back to life. I contacted the good folks at Creative only to be told that my warranty ran out and in order to get any help from them I would have to buy telephone time at $12 a half hour.
I can get back the music but I had other information that cannot be replaced. Had I known the player would go ballistic after a year I would have saved everything I put on there.
It went blank on me. I lost all my data.
Worked fine. I guess it was only good for a year.
I am left with a worthless piece of junk on my hands. Just about the time the warranty ran out.
A few days ago after charging my zen overnight I turned it on and found a screen that said recovery mode.
It won't leave Recovery Mode: I've reset it with the tiny internal button, I've reinstalled the latest firmware from Creative's website.nothing. Then it *really* crashed. It doesn't come with an a/c adapter (just the mini USB for your computer), and it won't charge with non-Creative brand adapters.More importantly, it crashes. It's still under warranty, just barely, and I am sending it back. I'd look at the player and it would say "Rebuilding Library". The Zen V Plus is a nice size.
I wasn't crazy about the shuffle function; it seemed to "shuffle" the same way every time, so you'd find yourself listening to some songs repeatedly and others not at all. One day it went into "Recovery Mode" (a function that gives you the opportunity to reformat, reinstall firmware, etc). The menu system isn't perfect, but it's fairly easy to navigate. When it was done (sometimes this takes several minutes) it would have forgotten certain settings I had recently changed. If/when it dies again, I will be reluctant to choose another Creative product. The player's controls are intuitive enough that you can easily play/pause/skip without looking at it.
Several times--especially after about the six month mark--the music would suddenly stop.
PRO's:Plays mp3 fine, audio quality decentNavigationals are pretty straightfoward Small, cute, decent battery lifeCON'sFor video you can only play AVI files, wish you could convert to smaller sized video files with decent quality but that's ok.Screen bit tiny if you're wanting to playback lot of video but it's supposed to be a mp3 player at heart isn't it.Overall not a bad gadget but I should've picked up a different model [same item but with a larger storage space :)]
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