20 Most Recent Creative Labs Zen Digital Media Player Questions & Answers

the device software that came with it should have an option under edit or file where it says create new playlist. however if it doesn't you can use winamp free from winamp.com to create one

I used MediaMonkey I have successfully encoded over 1000 mp3 with the album artwork interlaced in the ID3 tag. The only issue I have now is that some of the artwork shows up and some doesn't? If I open the same music in a media player that supports album artwork it shows up fine?

First check the connection lead is good. Any fault on that will make any item become "unknown". If you still have problem get Windows to search fr the drivers for it and install them with the disc provided with the Zen.

I switched the hide protection to show and then when i hit menu on the folder i wanted to protected it gave me the option to hide it. Then i went back and choose hide protected and it was gone, works perfectly

I don't understand

I have a feeling your only option is to dismantle and try disconnecting the internal battery. You may lose the data.

you can go to a mp3 website and download or if you have music on your mp3 just simply go to where you play your music and hit sync from mp3 or the device

MP3 players can only play music files in mp3 file format. You can download mp3 music files from the Internet to your computer and then copy them to your MP3 player using the USB cable. For your CD collection, you need to convert your CDs to mp3 music files onto your computer or download them from the Internet and then copy them to your MP3 player after you have connected the USB cable to the MP3 player and the computer. You can do this using Windows Media player and Rip the CDs - Media Player will create a MP3 music file for each music track. Click on this link for instruction on converting music files to mp3 file format :- http://www.fixya.com/support/r5798418-creating_transferring_mp3_music_files