MP3 sadness

[Luna]

got home from work/chore running today. Sat down to download some more music to my new MP3 player I got for my birthday. My computer is telling me it doesn't recognize the hardware.

I've followed every help tip I could find, including updating drivers and reinstalling the Creative MP3 player disk, to reinstalling windows media player 10 instead of 11. I went to the creative site where there is a forum where I saw I'm not the only one with this problem. What I don't get is that it worked just fine yesterday. I was able to download all 5 GB of my burned cds onto it. Now I plug it in and it says I don't have anything plugged in.

I know my USB ports work b/c I tried my digi cam and printer in all 4 ports I have and they all work in each. I have to find out how to fix this b/c I'm afraid to tell my husband we paid $300 for something I can't use now.

I've begged him for this player since last summer. He's going to be mighty pissed off when I tell him. I emailed Creatives tech support and am waiting for a response.

I waited so long and paid so much...I want to curl up in a ball and cry now. :cry:

[CRXPanda]

stay away from tech support...go with creative forums and other forums. if its a zen v, they have a lot of quirks and you have to reset the player a lot. (see forums/google search terms) good luck (went thru 3 for my hubby, seems this one is being a good puppy). i have an old zen micro...the mini hdd died in it, so i searched forums and found that CompactFlash cards fit. i now have an 8gb FLASH DRIVE in it now...not the "dont bump me or ill die" 5gb hdd it had.

[NightAngel]

I'm sorry. :( I'd probably go insane without my MP3 player.

My eldest child forgot his MP3 player yesterday and said he had to listen to 20 minutes of the girls sitting in front of him on the bus going, "LIKE! Oh. My. God. My hair is, like, SOooo friiiizzzzy today." etc., etc.

He won't be without it again. :lol:

[Crosshair]

I have never gone with a HD based player, always flash media for me. The climate here will kill a HD too quickly, especialy with the abuse I put them through.

I remember my first MP3 player, probably still have it somewhere. It ran on two AA batteries for about 10 hours of life, had 20 Mb of storage space when I put in a 16 Mb SD card. Ah those were the days.:rolleyes:

[Crazyredhead]

I don't have a MP3 player but am looking for one. Any good advise. I'm not to keen towards an IPOD. I need something tough that can stand up to hard, long distance running, strapped to my arm. Also it has to be waterproof, I sweat like a pig when I run.

[reformedwaitress]

I don't have a MP3 player but am looking for one. Any good advise. I'm not to keen towards an IPOD. I need something tough that can stand up to hard, long distance running, strapped to my arm. Also it has to be waterproof, I sweat like a pig when I run.

In all honesty, my friends and I probably have about every MP3 player made. And most of my friends have had nothing but problems.

My Ipod? It's survived being thrown around, dropped from three stories, living in my bag and being smushed and dropped with stuff on it, getting soaked by rain and puddles and anything else you can think of, including a dog trying to chomp down on it. Never had a single problem with it.

Just my two cents.

[digilight]

CRH, I know my dad has one of those little RCA ones that uses a memory card as well as a 30 gig player he's had for a few years now. He primarily uses the 30 gig one at home (he has a real bad back and fairly bad neuropathy in his legs) so he ends up sleeping in his chair most nights and listens to the MP3 player pretty much all night. The smaller one he takes with him and will listen to it when he's waiting for mom if she's in a store or something or when he's stuck in the hospital.

He prefers the smaller one for when he's out because it runs on a normal AA battery (not sure if its just one or 2) but he claims to get pretty good life out of it.

Since its flash based you don't have the problems using it in situations that you would with a hard drive based one (all the bouncing around can play havoc on the drive heads.

And its quite small compared to his bigger one (I can't remember the brand, want to say its creative but I'm not sure). He is however, on his second one of the RCA players (his first one was a promo giveaway when he bought his old laptop) it finally died (he couldn't get it to load music or be recognized from the computer) I'm not entierly sure that it was the player and not him though :). But he did go right out and replace it with the same exact model.

And with the memory cards you can preload different cards for different type of activities, IE. a workout card, a more relaxing card for sitting at home reading or trying to fall asleep. A card full of Yanni and really really crappy music to torture the kids when they misbehave - oh god I'm evil...

[Luna]

Well Amazon made good with me. They issued a UPS pickup for the defective one and 2nd day aired me a brand new one. As soon as I plugged it in - it worked.

The kicker is if it works tomorrow too - b/c that's what happened to my first one. Cross your fingers, toes and tails!