just got me a 20GB Creative Zen Touch

[Elevz]

I used to be an iPod user, but the battery of my iPod died in a few months so I was like... FUCK these damn iPods, I'm never buying anything from apple again. Now I'm a user of the Creative Zen Xtra 30Gb which was actually kinda cheap ( € 200 / $ 250 ) and still a pretty good mp3 player. I love it. It's not the best looking mp3 player, but it's not like that's a reason for me to buy another. This one is about perfect.

[Twentytwofifty]

How much u pay homie ?

US$384.99
About $15 cheaper than the iPod.

no offense guys, but both of those mp3 players you posted are really ugly.

No offense taken.  Appearance was not something I really cared about when I was looking at which player to purchase.  But the (colour) screen on my player does look better than any of the other players IMO.

[Jome]

Imo, Creative Zen Touch looks better than the 1-dimensional Ipod, but it's not a big difference.

I just bought a Creative Zen Touch 40GB and a Monster CarPlay FM transmitter for playing in the car. 




I'm pretty satisified with the Zen, except a few things:

* There's no option to browse music by folders, it's all based on ID3 tags. (Same as Ipod) Annoying when you have a folder with misc. tracks.
* A colour screen for viewing album covers would be dope, I guess Iriver got this.
* The touchpad is a little too sensitive.

As for the Monster CarPlay FM transmitter, it works good in certain areas, and not so good in others.
My city have 20+ radio stations on the FM band, so it's hard to find a frequency without noise, but it works cool for the most time.

[Twentytwofifty]

* There's no option to browse music by folders, it's all based on ID3 tags. (Same as Ipod) Annoying when you have a folder with misc. tracks.

Browsing by folders a good feature to have when you have a lot of music.  I use that instead of just searching by album or artist.

[Jome]

Browsing by folders a good feature to have when you have a lot of music.  I use that instead of just searching by album or artist.

Word, I have 2 folders called "New Albums" and "Old albums", and additional "Misc. singles", "New Shit", etc..
I had to tag all the albums, and give the "New shit" and "Misc. singles" folders a album name so Zen Touch could sort it proper.
Thank god for MEXP for Winamp, you can change tags for whole albums or whole folders in one go, and give them "1-xxx" numbers by just highlighting them.

Does the Iriver handle folders like the computer.. ?
And does it show the album cover if there's a album cover in the folder.. ?
How good is the color quality on the screen, can it be compared to a good mobile.. ?

[white Boy]

yea it took me like 16 hours to tag all my shit..

[Rampant]

yea it took me like 16 hours to tag all my shit..

hell yeah, that takes forever.

I hook my ipod up to the stereo via RCA wires in my head unit's AUX.  FM transmitters dont have as good of quality as hard wiring it

[*Jamal*]

Download a program called MediaTagger.... use the filename to tag songs, or vice versa.... it's really dope & easy to use...

[Sikotic™]

It took me about a week to tag everything before i uploaded the songs to my ipod.

[Twentytwofifty]

Does the Iriver handle folders like the computer.. ?
And does it show the album cover if there's a album cover in the folder.. ?
How good is the color quality on the screen, can it be compared to a good mobile.. ?

Yes, you have the option of searching your files that way or by artists, album or genre.
No, as of right now you can't view photos and listen to music at the same time but that might be possible in a future firmware upgrade.
It very good quality I'd say.  Better than my cell phone (Samsung SPH-n300).


I search thru the file tree and once the song is selected it displays the tag (you have that option).  So I can have the Thug Life album under 2Pac and when I select a song it will read "Volume One" "Thug Life" "Pour Out A Litte Liquor".
I used Musicmatch Plus to tag the music I download and I use Audiograbber to rip CDs and you can set it up so it tags them the way you want.  So once I rip a CD it's ready to go.

[Eddie G.]

Yea I bought the 20 gig Zen Touch, but those fucks at buy.com have taken over 2 weeks to send me it