Creative Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player Black by Creative Labs

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Creative Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player Black

by Creative Labs

$119.00

$179.99

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Sales Rank:	22656 (lower is better)
Price as of:	11/30/2008 1:19:33 AM MST
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Label:	Creative Labs
UPC:	054651078345
Binding:	Electronics
Published By:	Creative Labs
ASIN:	B00067TTZY
Category:	Electronics

Creative Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player Black Features

Micro-sized 5 GB digital-music player stores up to 1,250 songs at 128 kbps or 2,500 songs at 64 kbps (MP3/WMA)
Vertical touch pad simplifies navigation; body is curved to fit your hand
FM radio with 32 station presets for listening and recording; 10-hour voice recording through built-in microphone
12 hours continuous playtime using the supplied rechargeable lithium-ion battery; extend your listening using multiple batteries (sold separately)
Includes headphones

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Product Description

Introducing the most imaginative and eye-catching MP3 player to date! The exciting new Zen Micro carries 2,500 songs in a micro sized player and treats you to 10 electrifying colors to choose from, all with a captivating luminescent blue glow that will set you apart from the crowd.The size of your player shouldn't compromise the thousands of songs you want to listen to. Zen Micro's incredibly tiny size holds up to 2,500 songs, that's a whole weeks worth of music to enjoy and never hear the same song twice.And, with USB 2.0, you'll be able to transfer songs in a flash, spending less time at your computer and more time enraptured in your music.Only 3.3" high, this micro sized player stands tall against any other player. In such a tiny space Creative Technology has filled it with everything you'd want in an MP3 player and more!Zen Micro's contoured shape feels great when you hold it in your hand, scrolling through thousands of your favorite songs. The smooth round edges also let it slip effortlessly into your pocket. However, its stunning looks will probably make you want to keep it out where everyone can see it.Zen Micro, trimmed with a luminescent blue glow and back-lit buttons, boasts the most imaginative design of an MP3 player to date.

Amazon.com Product Description

The Zen Micro digital music player from Creative Labs packs an incredible 5 GB of storage capacity into a shell small enough to sit comfortably in your jeans pocket. It also rides nicely in your hand, with a palm-fitting profile and thumb-friendly front-panel controls. It's a bit shorter than an Apple iPod Mini, yet its rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides 12 hours of continuous playback--50 percent more than iPod Mini's. The Zen Micro is compatible not merely with MP3s and WAV files, but with WMA as well. Toss in USB 2.0 connectivity and you're looking at one spiffy portable music player.

But playing isn't all the Zen Micro does. You can use it to receive FM radio (with 32 station presets to keep your favorites at the ready), and to record, either from the radio or from live sources such as voice dictation or lectures using the Zen Micro's built-in condenser microphone.

Trimmed in a luminescent blue glow and with easily visible backlit buttons, this stylish black player holds up to 1,250 songs (83 hours) at 128 kbps or 2,500 songs (166 hours) at lower-fidelity 64 kbps (MP3/WMA)--that's a solid week's worth of music listening, never playing the same song twice. Compatibility with Microsoft's WMA compressed-audio format grants access to over 2 million downloadable songs offered promotionally or for sale online.

Perhaps the Zen Micro's coolest attribute is its DJ feature, which will shuffle not only all the songs you've loaded or all the songs in a given album, but also, at your discretion, only the tracks you listen to most, or only those you rarely hear, taking the work out of selecting your favorites or hunting out all the music you're still getting to know.

Zen Micro's rechargeable battery is easy to replace.
For navigation, the device features a vertical, linear touchpad designed to make searching through songs or playlists easy, quick, and fun. The unit's blue, 160 x 104-pixel, electroluminescent LCD shows key functions and song details at a glance, and you can even customize the main menu to keep right at your fingertips the features that matter most to you.

Another of the Zen Micro's handy features is its personal organizer. You'll never forget an important anniversary with the onboard calendar, and it also includes a to-do list and a contacts list, all of which sync seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook (Outlook thus required for use of these features). In addition, the device offers a sleep timer and alarm so you can drift off to sleep to the strains of one playlist and wake to a completely different one.

The Zen Micro's removable battery is easy to swap with another fully charged battery (additional batteries sold separately), extending your listening by a half-day per swap.

What's in the Box
The Zen Micro player, stereo earbud headphones, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, a USB 2.0 cable, an installation CD, a quick-start guide, and Creative MediaSource software.

Customer Reviews

The Negative reviewers are wrong! - Reviewed on 2008-08-06

This is quite possibly the coolest mp3 player out. How it is true I haven't tried all the new players out lately I remembered this one that I used to have and boy do I miss it. Touch scroll is nice, Glowing Blue lights adds to the nice coolness factor. Not super tiny but is not clunky by any means. You really need to see it in person to see just how high the quality actually is . 10/10 Seriously

it was nice, and then it wasn't - Reviewed on 2008-02-27

after about a month it started freezing regularly when I tried to turn it off. The only way to unfreeze the thing was to take the battery out.
Then, about a week later, it just completely froze, and the screen showed a picture of an unhappy zen micro...

Well, obviously this wasn't normal, so I called Creative and they said normally they would replace it, but they discontinued the product. Oh well, I did get my money back, and the customer service was good, so 4 stars.
I really liked it, and I would recommend it, I just hope it doesn't break.

JUNK! - Reviewed on 2007-11-28

I bought a 6gb Micro in 4/06..after several months the screen locked up...I tried everything including a new battery...$200 bucks in the trash!
Don't buy Creative anything..terrible product....... terrible company..

Programs not clear - Reviewed on 2007-11-27

1 customer found this review helpful.

Have had the unit only a day, and figured out how to load the mp3s after an hour or so of loading program and reading the manual. Although pretty much Windows drag and drop, there is some setup to do beforehand, so don't rush things and read the pdf manual. The paper manual has instructions for installing the drivers and playing the files. You'll have to go online or read the pdf manual to really work this thing.

I think I am pretty satisfied with the quality and oompf of the player itself, but Creative's "MediaSource Organzier" interface (along with the simpler "Media Explorer" and their capabilities--or not--caused many wasted hours here on Day Two. The Explorer offers a task list to easily rip audio CD to the device, with a box to check whether you wanted to also rip the mp3s to the Music Library on the C drive. I didn't want to waste my precious space on C drive, so unchecked the option. Later when I wanted to burn an MP3 CD (rather than an audio CD), I found could do this only with access to the harddrive's version of the Music Library. When I finally figured that out (and I reripped the album I was interested in), then the mp3 burn list would import the tracks only in alphabetical order. I tried via a custom playlist and bringing over a clearly numbered Album, and they tracks jumped to the burnlist in alphabetical order. Through the forums on Creative's website, I discovered that is the only option. No way to have the mp3s be "tracked" on an mp3 CD burn. And that's it. Phooey.

And for some reason, I could not after the fact move my many ripped albums of mp3s from the Zen player to the c drive's Music Library. If this had been explained beforehand or at all somewhere, I would have saved hours of time. But their manuals and tutorials make it all seem so easy..select tracks, place them in order with my named playlist, click a few buttons...and presto, it's stalled or a mess with no means to figure what happened.

I eventually worked around the whole thing using other programs, and now have a cd that will play my tracks in order on a CD player. Now I'm just going to make straight copies of it. Too many hours where a few sentences in the manual would have helped.

Not that great... - Reviewed on 2007-09-13

1 customer found this review helpful.

We bought one of these for my daughter and within a month the thing would freeze up. She sent it back for repairs and left the battery in. They fixed it and sent it back without the battery and told her it would cost $40 dollars for a new battery. I was mad and wrote the head of their public relations department a letter and Creative called me the next morning and had a battery overnighted to my daughter. (hint: go to the public relations for fastest results). Then it happened again and they would send a new one (didn't have to call their PR after the first one). This happend 3 more times till my daughter quit using her sony sport headphones. Then after about 3 months the headphone jack started having problems, so she brought it to me and I fixed it. And it has worked fine since then. The same thing happened to my video zen:m using the sony headphones. Evidently there something with sony headphones and creatives MP3 players. Now my daughter has a ipod nano and seems really happy with it.

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