Sorry that blogging has been a little light in the last week. Aside from parenting, husbanding, roadtripping with my son, and the copious amounts of overtime I've been putting in at work, I've also been trying to get my new toy - a 20GB Creative Zen Touch MP3 player - to work.
I'm no techie, so I don't know if the issue has been with the player or my computer, but I've reloaded my music library onto the player on three separate occasions, and once it gets to a certain level, usually between 3700 and 4000 songs, I get error messages for the remainder of my library. Also, when the player is loaded with that number of songs, and I hook it up to my computer to try to rip the balance of songs from, my computer essentially freezes up - Task Manager says that CPU usage is at 100%, and I can't access my player on my computer. Ugh!
Part of the issue seems to have been with Windows Media Player 10, which came with the MP3 player. On Attempt #3, I cleared all the songs manually from my player (because I was unable to do so via the jukebox function software that was installed on my computer), then did a system restore on my computer and restored it to a point previous to the purchase of the player, then did not re-install WMP 10. That seems to have helped somewhat; this time, I used MusicMatch to transfer the songs to my player, and got about 4100 out of my 4600 songs to transfer. That's the best I've been able to do, though - what of the other 500 songs that I'd like to have on my player?
All of that being said, the player itself is pretty cool, and when I'm not trying to get it to interface with my computer, I love it, and am very happy with it.
Anyone have any thoughts (besides "you should have gotten an iPod instead")?
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