I've got a Creative MuVo (which doesn't fit undyingking's requirements, but I presume the software's the same.
The software's pretty awful. The only reason I use it is because my source mp3s have been ripped at very high quality, and I can only fit about 8 at a time onto the MuVo. The Creative software at least lets me re-encode them quite easily. Other than that, the MuVo is just a USB drive, so if it weren't for the down-sizing of the files, I can just copy them on.
I say "just copy them on", but that isn't true, although the problem might be specific to the MuVo, and not to a Zen: it only handles one level of directory. So when I copy "/mnt/mpeg-3/Pink Floyd/1979 - The Wall/Disk 1/01 - In The Flesh.mp3", I either copy it to my "Pink Floyd" directory (and Disk 1 and Disk 2 get mixed up), or I copy it to my "Disk 1" directory, and mix it up with all the other Disk 1's I've got (which, on the MuVo, is approximately zero, but it's still annoying).
The zen, being simply a chunkier product, may not have this problem.
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Date: 2005-09-01 01:07 pm (UTC)The software's pretty awful. The only reason I use it is because my source mp3s have been ripped at very high quality, and I can only fit about 8 at a time onto the MuVo. The Creative software at least lets me re-encode them quite easily. Other than that, the MuVo is just a USB drive, so if it weren't for the down-sizing of the files, I can just copy them on.
I say "just copy them on", but that isn't true, although the problem might be specific to the MuVo, and not to a Zen: it only handles one level of directory. So when I copy "/mnt/mpeg-3/Pink Floyd/1979 - The Wall/Disk 1/01 - In The Flesh.mp3", I either copy it to my "Pink Floyd" directory (and Disk 1 and Disk 2 get mixed up), or I copy it to my "Disk 1" directory, and mix it up with all the other Disk 1's I've got (which, on the MuVo, is approximately zero, but it's still annoying).
The zen, being simply a chunkier product, may not have this problem.