Creative Zen question

19-04-2005, 12:16

Hey!

A friend of mine has purchased a Creative Zen, and is having difficulty with the software...

In iTunes, it shows:

Lie Detector | Sleeper | The It Girl | Alternative & Punk

With the CZ SW, it shows:

01 Lie Detector | Unknown | C:\Jimbo Jones\My Documents\My Music

What a PITA, the only way he could get it back to how it was, was to pop all of the music back on to the HDD; every time he uses the SW, it screws up the track naming.

And when you click on a track back in iTunes, it claims it cannot find it, so all of the music needs re-importing and it screws up the track titling to the same as the Creative Zen's SW!

Cheers,
Alex

Richard_T · 19-04-2005, 19:02

Ipods, Zens, and almost all other mp3 players out there use ID tags to identify the tracks storeed on them into Artist, album, Track name, track number, and Genre
from what i understand, Itunes uses a slightly different version of ID3 Tags, that are called ver2.2 9 orsomething like that) somewhere in Itunes there should be an option to change them to standard Ver1 or ver2 tags.

More help can be found on some creative forums, such as the ones at http://wwwnomadness.net, as well as the official creative labs website.

20-04-2005, 11:38

Hey,

I'll look into it - thanks.

Alex

kev · 20-04-2005, 12:22

I don't use the full creative software, only the NOMAD Explorer application in "My Computer".

Don't delete the files from the PC as when you copy them back the file structure and names are lost (damn annoying that one!)

19-04-2005, 12:16	#1
kentboy Posts: n/a	Creative Zen question Hey! A friend of mine has purchased a Creative Zen, and is having difficulty with the software... In iTunes, it shows: Lie Detector \| Sleeper \| The It Girl \| Alternative & Punk With the CZ SW, it shows: 01 Lie Detector \| Unknown \| C:\Jimbo Jones\My Documents\My Music What a PITA, the only way he could get it back to how it was, was to pop all of the music back on to the HDD; every time he uses the SW, it screws up the track naming. And when you click on a track back in iTunes, it claims it cannot find it, so all of the music needs re-importing and it screws up the track titling to the same as the Creative Zen's SW! Cheers, Alex

19-04-2005, 19:02	#2
Richard_T Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: East Midlands Posts: 3,842	Ipods, Zens, and almost all other mp3 players out there use ID tags to identify the tracks storeed on them into Artist, album, Track name, track number, and Genre from what i understand, Itunes uses a slightly different version of ID3 Tags, that are called ver2.2 9 orsomething like that) somewhere in Itunes there should be an option to change them to standard Ver1 or ver2 tags. More help can be found on some creative forums, such as the ones at http://wwwnomadness.net, as well as the official creative labs website.

20-04-2005, 11:38	#3
kentboy Posts: n/a	Hey, I'll look into it - thanks. Alex

20-04-2005, 12:22	#4
kev Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: South Notts (Waltham TV TX) Posts: 20,200	I don't use the full creative software, only the NOMAD Explorer application in "My Computer". Don't delete the files from the PC as when you copy them back the file structure and names are lost (damn annoying that one!)

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