Woo, got me Vision:M! (mini rant)

Kainz

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Lovely player. First impressions were "blimey, its a bit FAT", in comparison to my iRiver H10 anyway. [blog mention]

I love the player to bits, but I just can't for the life of me get used to the touchpad which is overly sensitive, even on the Low settings. Half the time when I want to go up or down, I end up selecting the song, which a middle tap is normally required for. It's a PITA and on day 2 of using the player I still can't navigate at all without selecting the wrong song/album/function.

The FM radio which is so essential to me has totally poor reception compared to my H10 which is crystal clear. Boo :(

What else can I whinge about? Oh yes, I thought this thing came with a flamin AC charger? :mad: I had to buy one off the fleabay for £10!

Other then all that, its a great player :D
 
Mine also came with a charger, although plugging in the computer is easy enough for me.

My FM reception is excellent, but I do agree with the touchpad, I find myself having a few problems with it, although I'm used to it now.

As for the size, it's smaller than my old IH140, so I'm happy with it.
 
yeh the touch pad takes some gettin used to but once u get it ull be fine, i think the vision m is the best portable media player on the market, the video quality is loads better than the vid ipod and so is the battery life
 
Hmm something tells me the latest models with the latest firmware like mine possibly don't come with a charger. I've seen quite a few forum posts where new owners like myself all have no charger. The AC one from fleabay works nicely though, it'll be useful at work.

I've already compared it to a mates ipod video and it's miles better. More colorful and vibrant. I just need to wait for a BSE skin to arrive from the states now because the included leather pouch is awful - it leaves little yellow bits of fur all over the player :/
 
haha yeh i know what u mean, same happend with my pouch, i need a pouch that will go on my belt, as theres no room in pockets, what with phone , cigs, money , wallett etc.., so if u know a good case let me know about it
 
Creative dropped the charger recently as the feedback they got was that not many people used it (i.e. just charged through USB). They did drop the price as well though I can't remember how that showed up in the UK. Anyway the 3rd party ones are better as they plug straight into the player rather than needing that plastic connector.
 
boosfuk said:
Anyway the 3rd party ones are better as they plug straight into the player rather than needing that plastic connector.
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Ahh cheers for the info. A charger would have been handy in my case because if my player is low on charge while at work, I'd go hysterical on the bus ride home should my player die on me. Yeah, my new charger has a connector that plugs directly into the player without that pesky dongle :)
 
Kainz said:
Lovely player. First impressions were "blimey, its a bit FAT", in comparison to my iRiver H10 anyway. [blog mention]

I love the player to bits, but I just can't for the life of me get used to the touchpad which is overly sensitive, even on the Low settings. Half the time when I want to go up or down, I end up selecting the song, which a middle tap is normally required for. It's a PITA and on day 2 of using the player I still can't navigate at all without selecting the wrong song/album/function.

The FM radio which is so essential to me has totally poor reception compared to my H10 which is crystal clear. Boo :(

What else can I whinge about? Oh yes, I thought this thing came with a flamin AC charger? :mad: I had to buy one off the fleabay for £10!

Other then all that, its a great player :D
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You didnt get a charger because you must have bought the cheaper zen vision:m lite pack, no charger and a slimmer box.

I have no complaints about the controls and ive left it on default, i havent mis-hit a menu or god knows how long now

My Fm radio works fine :S even on 1 bar
 
Hmm, just had a flash of inspiration, cheers Eliot. No idea about the 'lite' pack, it was a rather small box though...

I've been using the creative labs EP-630 headphones on these which were fine on my H10 for radio use. I wonder if the bundled vision:m headphones give better radio reception? I'll try them later tonight.
 
Is this a drag and drop player and do the video files have to be specially encoded?
What about the volume level? I like my music REALLY LOUD.
 
dmpoole said:
Is this a drag and drop player and do the video files have to be specially encoded?
What about the volume level? I like my music REALLY LOUD.
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Its not drag and drop - creative media explorer has to be installed to transfer stuff (at least as far as I can tell). No special encoding is required - although I think the software can convert videos of some formats.

Its not as loud as I would like it with my ear canal headphones.
 
dmpoole said:
Is this a drag and drop player and do the video files have to be specially encoded?
What about the volume level? I like my music REALLY LOUD.
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Once you open up the Creative Explorer, you can drop and drag. Now that I think of it, I think you can drop and drag in Windows Explorer, I'll check later.

As for the video files, I've only ever had to encode one and that was very easy using their software, but it's played everything else, no problem.

The volume level isn't bad, but if you want it really loud, I think the US firmware will be better.
 
I think I have the US firmware as I have no volume cap that the European fw apparently has...

I couldn't drag and drop upon plugging in my ZVM for the first time. XP wanted to install some drivers but I couldn't find any on the cd let alone the webby. So I installed the software (creative media explorer) which isn't for once bloated - it's an extension that works in XP's explorer and you can see the ZVM as another drive.

I find the ZVM can handle most of my mpg/divx files without any hassle. I just right click a file in explorer to bring up the context menu, and then I chose the newly added 'copy to creative zen vision:m' option and it transfers the file across to the right dir on the player, depending on file type.
 
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