Creative Zen MX 8GB Comments

Typo p1: "allowing you to easily double the 8MB or 16MB of storage already included" - you meant GB!

I have one of the original 8GB ones. Now scratched all over but still almost as intuitive to use as an iPod. Happy with it. I use the full version of Media Monkey to fill it. This will convert my FLAC collection to MP3 on the fly, deals well with podcasts etc. Well worth the tenner and I believe it will also sync 3G iPhones and thus remove the iTunes stranglehold.

My sister has been through 2 Zens. Build quality is awful. Both just stopped working, I think its a bad link with the battery but cant open the bugger to check

"easily double the 8MB or 16MB"

A whole 32mb?!? I may as well through out my iPod straight away :P

My old flatmate had this and it still works well. Just needs a screen protector as the screen is very scratchy.

had 2. 4GB was a scratch magnet and stopped working. changed it for a 8GB. brilliant player, the custom button worked a beaut, used it to auto shuffle.

just a question, does the memory card integrate with the main memory, or are they both separate (like the old one annoyingly was)

@ Thomas

"through out your iPod"? Peaple in glass houses...

@ Shi An De, "Peaple in glass houses..."

So much fail...

I have had the Zen for 20 months ago and have found it a great performer on all counts.....except one which I would have expected to correct in the new MX. That is, the media on the SD SDHC card does not sync with the basic core songs management software. Most of the desirable features dont work with the cards and as such the utilization of the card media is clunky and very primitive at best.
Creative got lots of complaints on this and they never addressed it in any upgrades that I know of.
Unless they have fixed this in the MX, it is like buying two players.

Plays a proprietary video format only? Obviously Creative ignored all customer suggestions when they designed this "updated" model. Zen users wanted MORE codecs, not less. That was the great thing about Creative players, they were far less picky about the formats they would play. Now all of a sudden they are taking the choice away from their customers and forcing them to use some unknown format.
I understand some people will not have the knowledge to convert their videos to a portable format, so they need a simple bundled app - and thats fine. But what about the users who use ATI Stream or Nvidia Cuda apps to quickly transcode their videos to an MP4 format? My idea of an upgraded product is one that gives me more features - not less.
Sorry Creative, but you just lost a customer.