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The Creative Zen Portable Media Center is the ultimate portable player for audio and visual entertainment. Watch up to 85 hours of video, listen to over 9,000 songs and view tens of thousands of photos. Its intuitive Microsoft interface offers familiar, fast and easy access to all your favorite digital media and gives you the freedom to take it with you anywhere. Watch it, listen to it, share it or show it off - As the flag ship of the Zen family of portable media products, the Zen Portable ...
Numerous firmware updates were released very soon after the player's launch, fixing a variety of bugs, but Creative did not add features to the SD Card functionality. The SD card functionality is considered to be poor by many people who own a Creative Zen because these people had expected the SD card to function more along the lines of a RAM expansion pack or additional non-volatile RAM instead of a separate drive with limited functionality, which is how Creative designed it to act. The ZEN MX requires an entirely different firmware.
Creative states that the ZEN supports the AAC audio format. However, only iTunes-encoded files can be played by the player hardware. iTunes's implementation has been licensed by Apple from Dolby and is proprietary. These files are in the .m4a format, which is the same as the Apple Lossless Audio Codec. The Zen does not play true AAC files (Low complexity and High Efficiency profiles) having the .aac suffix encoded by some other applications such as earlier version of Nero, Winamp etc. Creative has acknowledged this issue in a support article.[13]
The good: The Creative Zen sounds fantastic and features a brilliant color screen capable of displaying photos and video. The player offers a smorgasbord of desirable extras such as an SD card expansion slot, an FM radio, a voice recorder, and a user-definable EQ. It has a slim, pocket-friendly design; is very user-friendly; supports subscription music; and sports a reasonable price tag.
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