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| Creative Zen 16 GB Portable Media Player (Black) | 
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| Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $269.00
Buy New: $162.95
You Save: $106.05 (39%)
New (37) Used (3) from $145.36
Avg. Customer Rating:  172 reviews
Sales Rank: 216
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 2.5
Size: 16 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 1.5 x 6.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 70PF216100111
Model: 70PF216100111
UPC: 054651143852
EAN: 0054651143852
ASIN: B000UVBDRS
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Cool August 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wow, I bought this to upgrade from my 4 GB iPod nano (2gen) I love it! It works perfectly (so far). Hopefully reading this you know about the promoted features but here are some things I would've loved to know before I bought it.
It has this awesome advanced shuffle feature. You start playing something then simply navigate to any category and you can add it to the list of what to listen too. (like adding a single artist or cd or song) If you have it on shuffle you can listen to any selection of music shuffled together. You can save this list as a playlist as well. This is a feature I use constantly.
Also, I read a lot of complaints about the SD card slot. I find it useful, if only for videos or pictures. I was on vacation and my memory card on my camera was full, I simply put the SD card into my player, imported all the pictures and then cleared it, so I would be free to take more pictures.
This player also has some handy little features that are well integrated. I can change the play mode right from the song menu (it's impossibly annoying on the iPod). The My Shortcut button is also immensely useful, I have it set to go to Date and Time. Navigating through long lists is so much easier than even the brilliant design of the iPod. I have 2010 songs on here and I can find them twice as quick as on the iPod. My last little feature is that you can zoom in on a portion of a picture and set that portion as your wallpaper. (very useful for moving the center of the picture so it isn't covered by the icons on the main menu)
I'm not going to mention the sound quality because even though it is great, it depends heavily on the headphones (I have some Sony's that work well).
The software is also good, fast, effective and very easy to use. One thing I did notice is that it cut off the end of some information, like my artists, songs or album information. It's a little weird but easily fixed. This only happened about five times and is such a minor bug I almost didn't mention it.
I will warn you, it's thicker than it looks in that isometric view they have on the page. Also the placement of the headphone jack is a bit annoying when trying to operate one handed. I will give the designers credit that it was the only place they could've put it without it being even more annoying.
Overall, an excellent mp3 player that I would (and have) highly reccommed to anyone who will listen. It has a very well thought out design and it works perfectly.
Great value for a great player August 15, 2008
This player is completely customizable. The customizable shortcut button is very nice. It also syncs with Outlook for schedule managment, one of my favorite features.
great product August 13, 2008
I have had this player for a little over a month now, and am still learning about it. I really enjoy everything this MP3 player has to offer.
I am giving it only 4 out of 5 stars only because I am not entirely impressed with the radio reception. If you're in a gym, I am certain it works well, but it you want to use it as a walkman and listen to the radio outdoors, you might not get stations as well-unless you live in a large metro area.
Otherwise- terrific! Long battery life, great graphics, and easy to use.
Good, but maybe don't update the firmware August 11, 2008
I have owned a Creative ZEN Micro for a few years, but it was getting full and the earphone jack was no longer functional. I wanted to stick with Creative because I have always found their products to be pretty sound and went with this item.
When I received it, I figured I'd check for software/firmware updates. Since I hadn't done anything with it yet, I decided to update the firmware. Probably a bad idea (caveat: since I never used it before the update, I don't know if this caused my problem). Now it freezes constantly to the point that I carry a paper clip with it just so I can reset it. Oddly, the freezing only happens when using earphones. When plugged into my PC with the USB cable, I never have an issue. I bought this thing back in Feb.
I am either sending it back to Amazon or doing an RMA with Creative for this (not sure which). I ordered a new one from Amazon as well and I may just leave the bad one at work where I often use it just via USB cable connected to my PC.
I like the unit alot, so I am willing to give a new one a try, without doing any updates. I bought one for my wife and she has no problems at all, and she never did any updates (and now is afraid to because of my issues).
I also don't like how it imports CD's - for example mix CD's I have burned at home. It seems to sort these by artist, but I prefer by album. I have actually found a way to work around this, though a bit cumbersome.
Anyway, It's a pretty solid unit from a company who makes pretty decent products. If my new one doesn't work, I'll find a another brand.
 Not the greatest... August 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just bought my Creative Zen about a month ago, and it's not a bad mp3 player. Nice size, attractive design, good font choice, plays well, good battery life, etc. Decent player.
One of the major flaws of the Zen is that it organizes everything by how your songs are tagged. I would prefer if it went by the file name itself, since that's how I have my music organized on my computer (I consistently name my files as "Artist - Track", but I've never paid much attention to how the files are tagged). It's not a huge deal though; as long as I can find the song I'm looking for, that's good enough.
However, it's NOT okay that I'm only able to shuffle my music within an album, not within an artist. For example, say I'm in the mood to listen to only Ben Folds. You would think that the Zen would allow you to shuffle all the songs where the artist is tagged as Ben Folds, right? It doesn't work like that though. If I want to listen to Ben Folds, I have to choose whether I want to shuffle within Whatever and Ever Amen, or within Songs For Silverman, etc. It's not going to let me hear "Trusted" followed by "Selfless, Cold, and Composed" because those two songs are from different albums. That's unacceptable to me. The only solution I can come up with is to re-tag all my music so that every file's album name is tagged as "Album". That way, all the tracks for an artist would be listed under the same album name, thus allowing me to shuffle within a specific artist. What a colossal waste of time that would be though, considering the size of my music library.
I think it's pretty common for people to want to shuffle their music within a certain artist every once in a while. The fact that the Zen can't do this is a major drawback, and I'm regretting having bought this player for that reason alone.
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