Creative Zen Mozaic 2 GB MP3 Player (Pink) | List Price: $59.99
Discount Price: $56.04
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Brand: Creative Labs
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - 2 GB capacity for 1,000 WMA or 500 MP3 files
- Up to 32 hours battery life on a single charge
- 1.8-inch TFT color display with 128 x 160 pixel resolution
- Supports AVI video format (must be transcoded with included software); MP3, WMA, WAV (IMA-ADPCM), Audible 4 audio formats; JPEG (BMP/GIF/PNG/TIFF) image formats
- 1-year limited hardware warranty
You want folders? No, you can't have them! [Posted on 2008-12-26]
I just bought it for my mom (8Gb version) - I thought this would be a nice simple cheap player, but in my efforts to load my music and her English lesson mp3s I got nothing but 3 hours of headache.
Forget about your folders on your comp, where your files are neatly arranged. The player will pile all of them into one big hip, and rename them according to who-knows-what rules (some of the files had the same name!!!). Oh, sure, you can rename each and every file (using Properties, but not the actual file name with an extension) and hope that the player will like and use the new names. Didn't help so far.
If you plug the player in to the comp, everything is going fine, until you need to unplug it and plug it again. The comp will not see the player until you restart the computer. The software didn't see half of my mp3 files on my comp until I updated firmware.
The screen will not dim completely. Just to 10% of brightness.
The speaker does not have as loud and clear a sound as I hoped for.
Now, on the somewhat positive side: it's cute and lightweight, the screen is nice, sound is nice (but will not compare to Cowon). I didn't try the videos, or conversion yet. Huge plus: interface language can be changed to a bunch of other languages, including Russian, Polish, Magyar, etc. Powers up and starts playback immediately.
Update:
Spent hours renaming all the files. Uploaded them again. Software didn't read them again. Reinstalled software. Uploaded the files. Ufff. Finally was able to put all the files into playlists. Neither the software, nor the player itself see the folders you create in the player.
I am sticking to Cowon for myself - we have 3 of them, and they are excellent. You get what you pay for. There is no way my mom could figure all of this by herself (for Mosaic) - not very electronics savvy, but she has no problems with Cowon (plug, drag-drog, arrange, enjoy).
Mozaic it's OK. [Posted on 2008-12-26]
This is avery simple to use MP3 player, with many features.
For average poeple (even Ipods user) this is the right mp3 player for you. I found few problems related to this mp3 player:
- Only support windows, you need to work more hours if you are a Linux or Mac user.
- EQ is 5 bands only: 80Hz, 250Hz, 1KKz, 4KHz and 13KHz. So if you are a Xtreme quality music enthusiast this is not the mp3 player for you (you need a expensive headphones to compensate the quality, $40 and up).
- Bass Boost only improves bass levles but distortion occurs often and +db leves up at the same time (medium frequencies getting very high).
- There is no "stop" button, just "pause" or press another function.
- If you are working-out it is complicated to search songs, but you may create a playlist to simplify your 'songs'.
- USB cable is too short 2 inches.
Alarm, clock, calendar are cool features if you have patience to play with those settings.
Battery is 5 stars, long enough for any activity, the little speakers is ideal if you work at your office or cubicle.
3/5 **
Disappointment! [Posted on 2008-12-28]
I bought two of these for family members for Christmas based on all the reviews I read.... Neither one worked! One wouldn't turn on at all, and the other worked for one day, then stopped. I have had to return both of them, much to my disappointment. I wouldn't recommend buying!!!!
Bought 3 of them - 2 broke immediately [Posted on 2009-01-05]
I would be happy to give this product 4 or even 5 stars except I bought 2 of them and one froze up within 2 days and I had to return it. I used the store credit to get another one and it died within 2 days of activation as well. I won't buy another and wanted to get this data out there for you.
Very nice MP3 player without the brand name price [Posted on 2009-01-06]
This 2 GB player will fill the bill for anyone. Lots of space for quality music downloads. More button options than a Zen V or V Plus.
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