Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black)

The Creative Zen is a fantastic little gadget. I bought two for my kids for Christmas and they can't put them down. The 4 gb holds plenty of music and the graphics are great. It hold over 30 hours of media and their website is easy to use. When they arrived I took them both out of the package to have them charged, download some of their favorite music and have them ready to go. I had so much fun with the Zen, I was disappointed I did not get myself one. Definately a great buy, well worth the money. I am glad I made this purchase instead of spending a fortune on the iPod. I highly recommend this product.

Each year I ask my sons to give me a list of things they would like to get for Christmas. The Zen mp3 was at the top of my son's list. It was easy to find on Amazon.com. The price was better than any I have seen and free shipped made it the choice for me. The Zen is a cool MP3 player. It has a nice screen and feels like a quality product. My son is very happy with it and so am I. I will get a case for it so it will stay nice and new looking. Amazon.com is where I will go to find it. It really is one stop shopping when it comes to things like this. Thanks for making my job as Santa easier.

3 month warranty... Dead after 4 months. Do not buy this product. One day it froze up when trying to copy songs to it. Had no other option but to disconnect it from the computer. It never started again or took a charge. When it worked it was great, but obviously the quality of this product is complete crap. There's a reason you're finding it on sale.

Santa brought a Red (available at Walmart.com) Creative Zen 4G, for our 7 year old for Christmas. She LOVES it and I have to say it's pretty awesome. She has her own music on there (only a few of our songs from Itunes transferred)but all of her music off cd's can be played on it and we can purchase music off Walmart or Amazon as well. Also, we downloaded an Alvin and the Chipmunks music video for free from Amazon Unbox (really easy to do) and then we also put a couple movies we had on DVD on it, although you need some other software to do so. The picture is clear and the sound is great. It's very sturdy and she LOVES it. The only thing that would have made it better is if you could play a few little games on it. There isn't solitaire or anything and you can't play any games whatsoever on it, but overall this is a GREAT product, especially for a 7 year old!

This is a good device. Very small and lightweight, nice interface, great battery life.
That said, if your intention is to use the SD slot to give it a larger effective capacity, you might want to rethink that. The capability exists, but it's hacked on in the clumsiest manner possible. Media on an SD card can't be searched by artist, album, genre, etc. the way media stored natively is. Neither can that media be incorporated into playlists. It's just a collection of files that can be accessed directly.