Creative Zen Stone Plus 2 GB MP3 Player with Built-in Speaker and Clip (Black) | List Price: $79.90
Discount Price: $49.99
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Brand: Creative Labs
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Product Type - MP3 Player
- Connectivity - USB
- Memory - 2GB
- - Voice Recorder
- - Shortcut Button
Amazon sent me wrong ZEN twice! [Posted on 2008-10-11]
I ordered a black zen stone. I recieved a white zen from amazon. I go to the post office return the white one. So finally my next package comes white again! Impossible to get any one on the phone. Thanks amazon. Next time Ill go to best buy. Love the zen even thou its white!
Very Cool MP3 [Posted on 2008-10-13]
This MP3 is very good. It is small, light yet heavy enough so that when you are holding it, you could feel that it is there. However the MP3 suddenly shuts off sometimes for mine. It has a lot of memory space. The speaker is quite good. The sound quality is very very good. Mine came with a sporty strap with sporty headphones and I am quite happy with it.
DON'T BUY CREATIVE! [Posted on 2008-10-31]
The first mp3 player I bought was by Sony and it has worked pretty well, but since I didn't care for the design or the menu, I thought I'd buy a different brand this time around. The Stone really appealed because of its price, looks, and features. So I spent a lot of time reading reviews and despite the number of people that said theirs randomly stopped working, I still ending up ordering a Stone because of the price.
WHAT A MISTAKE! I started using the Stone right away and everything was going well. I laughed at myself for worrying. THE VERY NEXT DAY, my FULLY CHARGED Stone WOULD NOT TURN ON! I couldn't use the recovery tool that I downloaded from Creative either because when I connected the Stone, it wouldn't show up on the computer. MY STONE WAS DEAD WITHIN TWO DAYS OF USE!
So, there goes fifty bucks. (I bought the 2GB plus with speaker.)
Other reasons not to buy the Stone:
It is ridiculously hard to turn on and off and you have to press for way too long. The middle button isn't big enough or something. Whenever I try to turn it off, I end up turning up the volume super loud instead.
When you reach the end of a list, it doesn't go back up to the first one.
You can't choose individual songs in a folder.
Changing the mode it's playing (in one folder, on repeat, shuffle, etc.) takes way too long. I have to press the middle button, right towards options, down to play mode, and then up and down.
You can't browse music and listen to music at the same time. So let's say I want to go from my Carnival Ride folder to my Some Hearts folder. Well, as soon as I switch over to Some Hearts, Flat On the Floor is cut off because Wasted interrupts it and starts playing.
The clock doesn't work. When you connect the stone to your computer, it asks if you want to sync the time to your computer time and I said yes. Like an hour later, I checked the clock on the Stone and it reset. O_o Before my Stone died, I had synced it twice and both times this happened.
I think I've made my point. THE STONE IS A BAD BUY! So don't buy it.
Awful for Audio Books [Posted on 2008-11-03]
My iPod doesn't allow me to transfer audio books downloaded from my library's website due to digital rights management. This is why I bought this additional MP3 player.
I like the price and form.
But for audio books, this is terrible. It has extremely limited bookmarking. If you turn it off, you can continue where you last left off. But if you switch to another track and then return to the audio book you lose your place. If you connect the Zen Stone to recharge, you also lose your place.
And in the event that you mentally remember the track and time where you last left off, it may take you minutes to get back there. By holding down the forward button, you can scan within a track, but it just jumps forward about 5 seconds for every second that you hold the button down. My old VCR has more advanced searching features than this. At least my VCR speeds up when I hold down the forward button.
Finally, if you intend to listen to this when attached to your car stereo, be very careful about the buttons. I accidentally switched it to play through it's built-in speaker instead of the car speaker by pressing the pause button on top of the MP3 player. It's a pause button ... why should it also switch to the built-in speaker?
UPDATE: If you accidentally leave this MP3 player in the car during a cold night, you will lose all battery power.
cancer causing MP3 [Posted on 2008-12-22]
I just purches two Zen stone MP3 players for my kids. I have one of my own and for my limited use the player is fine. However, I just opened the box to charge them up and the first thing I see is the warning "HANDLING THIS PRODUCT MAY EXPOSE YOU TO CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER AND BIRTH DEFECTS OR OTHER REPRODUCTIVE HARM"!! What the... Ok, so you can argue that everything causes cancer these days, but really do you think I'm going to wrap these up and give them to my kids now? I don't think so.
UPDATE....
In fairness to Creative, I contacted them about their warning and here is their response. They replied to my E-mail in about 2 hours, so no complaints with customer service!
Dear Customer,
Thank you for contacting Creative Labs.
The cables have a small amount of lead in them. Any time lead is used in a product, California law (where our warehouse is located) requires we place a warning label on them because of the possibility of traces being on the outside as well. There is the possibility of very small traces being on the cable, however, I can assure you all of our cables are washed after production to ensure your safety.
Please retain all the previous correspondence when replying to this email.
Best Regards ,
***Got to thank California for this law. Makes you wonder how many items there are out there that don't require this disclaimer.
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