A mate had a Creative Zen MP3 player a while back and I must admit I was pretty impressed with it.

I think he had one of the early Zen models, so went off to see what offering creative had.

Saw this with 120 GB marked as 60GB, but the rest of the spec mentioned less.

WTF do I believe.  :-/

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Creative-Nomad-Jukebox-Zen-Extra-With-120GB-Drive_W0QQitemZ270477151992QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_AudioTVElectronics_PortableAudio_MP3Players?hash=item3ef9b1cef8

Has anyone got one of the latest /current models.  Thinking of one for the car and looking at these plus other options (Anythng BUT APPLE)

Any recommendations.

Maybe refurbed with a larger disk in it?

Guffer wrote on 13. Nov 2009 at 20:43:

Maybe refurbed with a larger disk in it?

Am starting to wonder.  :-/

I would walk away from that one, although the Zen players are ok to use it is a bit of fun converting files but there are converters out there on the net for free :y

Plomien wrote on 13. Nov 2009 at 23:27:

I would walk away from that one, although the Zen players are ok to use it is a bit of fun converting files but there are converters out there on the net for free :y

No probs

Any recommendations.

I have a Zen X-Fi 16Gb flash-based player and I'm very happy with it. Battery life is excellent, sound quality is excellent, user interface is OK. Video playback is even pretty good. I didn't buy it for video but I watched a couple of feature films on a flight once just for sh1ts and giggles and I was surprised how good it was.

The wireless LAN functionality is a bit wasted. Seems mostly to allow teenagers to social network using some cryptic way of entering text using 9 buttons. Don't expect it to do anything useful like transfer music files.

Software that's bundled with any player is pretty ropey, TBH. At least you don't have to use GayTunes. I wouldn't use it to rip / encode CDs. There is a windows explorer drag-and-drop interface that means I can just dump the files onto the device without ever having to launch the bundled software.

I keep all my collection in FLAC these days and just use a shell script to rip through the whole lot converting it to MP3 at whatever bit rate I fancy.

Not sure I'd bother with a hard drive player. Flash players are getting big enough that you don't need to worry about fragile mechanical bits and the high power consumption that comes with them IMHO.

Kevin

Mr Skrunts wrote on 13. Nov 2009 at 23:28:

Plomien wrote on 13. Nov 2009 at 23:27: I would walk away from that one, although the Zen players are ok to use it is a bit of fun converting files but there are converters out there on the net for free :y No probs Any recommendations.

I can't remember which one he ended up using but I have seen one on http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ just sign up for their email and grab it when it comes around again :y