Creative Labs Zen Nano Plus Review
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Wonder all the excitement and fun with the new creative - Zen Nano Plus. Enjoy the beat of music and feel the greatness of life. Reasonable price but high quality!
Features
The Creative Zen Nano Plus is incredibly thin in design and packed with the latest features. The Zen Nano Plus comes complete with a FM tuner, Voice/FM recording, and Line-In encoding for direct connection and recording from any audio source. Meaning songs can directly download to it from CD player without involving PC. Auto Synchronization makes it easy to transfer your favorite songs and albums from CDs through the line-in connector. 10 fun, vibrant colors and is available in 512MB of flash memory to store up to 250 songs and 1GB of flash memory to store up to 500 songs for you to choose from.
| Storage Capacity | 512MB and 1GB |
| Music Format | MP3 / WMA |
| Play Duration |
250 WMA songs / 125 MP3 songs (512MB) 500 WMA songs / 250 MP3 songs (1GB) |
| Power Source | 1 x AAA battery |
| Battery Life | Up to 18 hours playtime |
| USB Interface | USB 2.0 |
| FM Radio | Yes |
| FM Recording | Yes |
| Voice Recording | Yes |
| Others | - Ultra-light (0.8 oz without battery) - 4 Band EQ (Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock) - Simple drag-and-drop music and data files, no software needed - Reversible LCD for left or right handed operation - Available in 10 electrifying colours |
Pros
- Easy to use
- High quality sound
- Multifunctionality (recorder, radio FM, flash drive)
Cons
- Earbuds can be better
- Non-rechargeable battery
- No Stop button
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January 7th, 2006 at 12:24 am
i luv it but i dont knw how to get to the FM radio, good job i luv creative!
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:16 pm
This is a great little device, but it is let down a little by crappy software and truly bad documentation. After a lot of trial and error I eventually figured out the tracks will play only in alphabetic filename order. Also, if you use WMA format, and the track is “copy protected”, it will appear on the Nano but it can’t be played. This appears to be partly Microsoft’s fault, their DRM is very user-unfriendly. I recommend you use MP3 format only, even though it uses up more disk space, to avoid this problem. Creative, or anyone else, if you’re listening, surely you can build some better software that lets you create playlists and simply move them to the player?
For simplicity, I created different folders on the player and used each folder as a “playlist”. But even then it’s cumbersome to move between folders. And I used up huge amounts of disk space ripping the CD’s to the computer, and then even more when I duplicated the tracks to build my “playlists”. The various menu options on the player are also needlessly complicated.
With all that said, the player is very light and the sound quality is great. Battery life is excellent. I recommend the Nano, but be prepared for some effort to get it to do what you want.