Creative Zen Nano Plus MP3 player review
Bad stuff:
This is an excellent product and the only negative comments I have are quite superficial and it should be noted that we computer science geeks seem to have a genetic propensity for pointless trivialities!
1) From power up takes up to 15 seconds to load and become operational, depending on the capacity;
2) The bundled headphones are good enough, but not sufficiently so to do justice to the sound quality;
3) As a flash based player, it might have been nice to have a direct USB plug - now that retractable ones are appearing there would seem to be no reason not to;
4) The rocker switch/scroll wheel is a little fiddly, over-sensitive and can lock;
5) When browsing by folders the first song in the folder is played, rather than offering a chance to browse without playing;
6) I have noticed the odd random 0.3 second 'skip' during playback - this seems to occur about every 6 hours of use;
7) I would have liked this to have come with a rechargeable battery that could be charged using the USB cable;
8) The device can not be connected to a computer to provide power while recording from the microphone or direct encoding;
9a) Folders and tracks being organised by descending alphabetic order according to file names only, and the device displays the file name only for a second then switches to the encoded track title which could be completely different. This can seem quote disorienting with large volumes of files organised with real file names;
9b) While a computer is not required, except for the ability to delete files, there is no interface to organise or name directly captured files which are written respectively to an ‘encoded tracks’ folder and named EN001 incrementally up to EN999, and to a “recorded files’ folder named VOIC001 to VC999;
10) Voice recordings are encoded as WAV files, I would have liked the option to use MP3 encoding;
11) There is a 1.8 second delay when starting and ending a direct recording;
12) The device directly encodes at a maximum of 160bkps, I don't consider this a real issue but users are becoming accustomed to better quality encoding.
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Added: December 11th 2006
Product reviewed: Creative Zen Nano Plus MP3 player
Reviewer: Michael Hart
Score: 10/10
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