Creative Zen Vision M
And now a pretty detailed review.
This thing is awesome. I picked mine up at Buy.com if you are looking for one. If you’re too lazy to read the above review then I’ll summarize my experience so far.
CREATIVE ZEN VISION M ROCKS!
Interface and Ease of Use:
The iPod has a really cool scroll wheel that most people love. It is very cool and easy to use. My Zen (aka Dave) has a touch pad thingy in the center of the player. It allows you to scroll up and down and is also “tap” sensitive. Rawr that’s hawt! You can adjust the sensitivity on it too. Too bad you can’t adjust the sensitivity of women or men that act like women. There are also navigation buttons to the left and right of the touchie pad. They work great. They just do. Nuff said.
Music:
Creative Zen plays music just as well as any other player out there. (iPod) It will play .wav, .mp3 and .wma files so you have a wide varitey of choices. There are a few ways of placing music on the player. You can use the good ole “Windows Explorer”. Pretty simple drag and drop. This is good for files you already have *cough downloaded cough* on your computer. If you have a CD you want ripped to the Zen, you just open Widows Media Player 10 (wmp10) and choose the “Rip” tab. You can choose the quality of the rip (turns in to MP3 files even) and it will show you the size the CD will take up. When you are finished ripping that CD goodness, you then click on Sync tab. Guess what that does? I’ve found this way easier and faster myself. I’m sure there’s another way, but I’m to lazy to test anymore. Why mess with something that works oh so well? WMP10 will automatically download the track info and album cover to display while a song is playing. This is MUCH better than having to add them yourself. However, you do have that option if you want. Some people are communists about letting WMP10 download stuff on their PC. You are probably the type that puts A1 sauce on your steak! Freaking Commie! This thing is great for music. Unlike some players, you can listen to music while you go back to the main menu screen and mess with other stuff. Very nice Creative.
Video: (Because that’s the whole reason for having this over just some plain jane music player)
What can it play? How about MPEG-1/2/4, DivX 4/5, XviD5, WMV9. Oh yeah baby! (What can the iPod video play? How abou