Creative Zen Stone 1 GB MP3 Player (Lime Green)

What a piece of junk. It will not play any downloaded music purchased legally. The first one I ordered did the same thing and I just thought it was a malfunction, but the second one does it to. I can add downloaded songs through Windows Media and it will play, but if I do it that way I can't set up folders for my music. If I go through Creative Media Lite I can set up folders, but it won't play music. Should have never switched from my sansa.

We have four of these little stones in our family, mainly for use while exercising, and they are incredible. For about $20 you would expect a cheap product. But they have good sound, an ok battery life (~8 hours total use, lose very little charge when off, and they charge quite fast), decent sized memory, very small size, VERY light (you really don't even need an armband, just shove it in your shirt, the headphones are almost heavier than the stone itself), and virtually indestructible!We had one accidentally go through the clothes washer (check your pockets) and then drier and it still worked! About a month later, it took another whirl through the washing machine. This time it looked like it had had it, so we bought another inexpensive brand player to replace it.After a few weeks the new player fell apart. Decided to check the now very clean stone to see if the weeks of drying had done anything, and...worked great and is still going strong months later.

I bought this item because I've owned several other creative zen products and never had trouble with them (plus i have a vendetta against apple, ugh) but this is the first creative device I've owned that DIDNT SYNC WITH NAPSTER!!!! Maybe they will update this feature in the coming months, but until then, NAPSTER USERS BEWARE!!!!

I have not used this very much yet, but here's what I can tell you. For the price it is a good value, but I miss not having some digital readout that tells you what song is playing. Also miss that you can't just put in a battery when this one goes dead (something I never liked about the ipod) Also, the major limitation is the volume--it just doesn't get loud enough (I use earbuds) to rock out to the fullest extent. The good thing is it is tiny--like REALLY tiny. The battery seems to hold for a while. You can create subfolders within the file structure and you can skip from file to file (like playlists but not quite as handy because you have to shuffle through them blind)

I received this to replace a creative zen nano I had that someone smashed at work.. It's a nice little player, just like the nano, it's very easy to transfer files from pc to the player. This is a good, no frills type of unit, battery life (rechargable through usb) is pretty good lasting almost two days with practically continual play. It's great to not have to worry about batteries. If you have music in your car, music on your phone but want this as a beat around to carry your music, it's pretty good. No display, no speaker, no led. Pretty straight forward, does what it was intended to do, not bad.. I don't like what apple has done, This IMHO is just as good as the ipod shuffle and not as restricted.

I bought a Zen Nano (no longer sold) and it had a glitch and would no longer allow you to upload files even though the player was empty. Technical support told me to reformat the player and when I did, it never turned on again. This happened with BOTH my Nano players. When I went to customer support they told me I was out of luck. I do not recommend buying from this company Creative Labs.

This is the first mp3 player I purchased. I chose this one because it's inexpensive, and since you just plug it in your USB drive w/o the use of a program, it works with Linux. I've owned it since August and I use it ALL the time, especially while working out. It's a nice small size, any smaller and I would probably lose it for good. It's really simple to use. Basically, I could have just tossed the directions. The battery seems to last about 10 hours, I don't shuffle much and I use the earbuds that came with it (I think they sound fine). I haven't even filled it to the capacity with music yet. I tend to get bored with certain songs then just remove them and add new ones so the 1 gb is perfect size. I've also found I can charge it using my Verizon phone charger. Definitely recommend this to someone who wants music on the go and not their entire cd catalog.

It didn't cost much, and holds plenty of material.Navigation is difficult without some sort of display. And I can't get the controls to work the way I think they ought to work. I downloaded a 30-minute podcast, and found something interesting in the last 5 minutes. When I went back to find it, I wanted to skip to the end, and then scan backwards to the interesting part. But, from the end of a recording, holding down the "back" key seems to take it to the beginning of the first file in the directory.Also, it's really, really, quiet. I've got it plugged into the Aux channel of my Scion's stereo, which was designed to accept an MP3 player. With the radio at max and the headset volume at max, I can usually hear the recordings fairly well. But, of course, when I put a CD in the player, I'm blasted out.