Was looking for something to replace my Nomad Jukebox as I wanted something to play video to keep my little one occupied on long journeys. Decided to go for this one, due to the SD memory expansion slot, which I have found really useful. I keep videos and my audio books on different SD cards, keeping the main player for the music. Screen is pretty small, but excellent picture.
I work nights, so it is constantly on. I normally have it plugged it into the PC, via the USB slot.

I knew about it freezing before buying it. Does it maybe once a couple of months, but I have a paperclip handy that I push into the reset button and we're back up and running again. I have been lucky and it has not wiped all of my stuff when I reset it, yet.......

I would recommend that if you are going to buy one, to get a case for it. My colleague, who bought one after seeing mine, got the leather case. It didn't have a screen protector, so she had to improvise. I got the Zen clear case and it… more »

Was looking for something to replace my Nomad Jukebox as I wanted something to play video to keep my little one occupied on long journeys. Decided to go for this one, due to the SD memory expansion slot, which I have found really useful. I keep videos and my audio books on different SD cards, keeping the main player for the music. Screen is pretty small, but excellent picture.
I work nights, so it is constantly on. I normally have it plugged it into the PC, via the USB slot.

I knew about it freezing before buying it. Does it maybe once a couple of months, but I have a paperclip handy that I push into the reset button and we're back up and running again. I have been lucky and it has not wiped all of my stuff when I reset it, yet.......

I would recommend that if you are going to buy one, to get a case for it. My colleague, who bought one after seeing mine, got the leather case. It didn't have a screen protector, so she had to improvise. I got the Zen clear case and it is great. Have dropped it a few times and protects it well.

The software is not the greatest. It is very slow at converting video. It is meant to support lots of different formats, but it always says the format is not compatible and has to convert it. This can take hours depending.

Apart from the software and the occasional freezing, I love it and would recommend it to anyone. I have had mine for over a year now.

Purchased one of these elsewhere but thought I'd add my review to Play's site.

Firstly this was purchased as an intended update to several MP3 players which I currently own ranging from Zen Stones, to a Nomad Jukebox to an Aigo Multi Function MP3 player which is essentially the double of this player but without the quality and experience which Creative add to their products.

The player itself is literally the same size as a credit card with the exception of the thickness obviously, I would say its around 1-2 cm thick.

Upon starting the player I was somewhat disappointed the menu seemed like a pain to navigate and I gave up for a few days. When I finally got round to playing with it a little more I was well impressed.

My recommendations would be to firstly use Windows Media Players Sync option in tandem with their find album info option to automatically clean up your mp3 files add album art and transfer too your player. Then switch the allbum view to show album… more »

Purchased one of these elsewhere but thought I'd add my review to Play's site.

Firstly this was purchased as an intended update to several MP3 players which I currently own ranging from Zen Stones, to a Nomad Jukebox to an Aigo Multi Function MP3 player which is essentially the double of this player but without the quality and experience which Creative add to their products.

The player itself is literally the same size as a credit card with the exception of the thickness obviously, I would say its around 1-2 cm thick.

Upon starting the player I was somewhat disappointed the menu seemed like a pain to navigate and I gave up for a few days. When I finally got round to playing with it a little more I was well impressed.

My recommendations would be to firstly use Windows Media Players Sync option in tandem with their find album info option to automatically clean up your mp3 files add album art and transfer too your player. Then switch the allbum view to show album covers, trust me when I say it makes navigating so much more pleasant than Creatives text based default option.

I then changed up the menus placing them in the order which I would use each function the most i.e. replacing the Microphone menu with Music, Video and Photo menus at the top of the tree - this is how Creative should have set them up by default in my opinion. I also changed the shortcut button from "album of the day" to go straight to "my albums" which is a lot more desirable in my opinion and less frustrating if you accidentally hit that button and get some random album playing out.

Also changed the wallpaper to something more suitable. I believe the player uses a specific size of image file for wallpapers but it also gives the option to use larger images with the player either resizing them/cropping them or adding black bars depending on your selection, which is a nice touch.

As for the actual sound/video/screen quality I was well impressed although I did purchase a set of Creative EP-630 In Ear Headphones for £6 at the time of purchase as I was told they far exceed the standard Creative headphones packaged with this player which is true.

All in all you could say im very happy with the player just wish the accessories didn't cost the earth, £15-20 for a leather wallet or silicon skin pack is a little excessive in my opinion but cest la vie.