I have wasted too many hours of my life trying to get Creative products working

[The Sauce]

I think this is pretty much it. No more Creative for me. The sound cards work ok but their MP3 players are the absolute worst. When I got the Zen Micro I spent hours on with customer support trying to get the player recognized in Windows XP. I just built a new PC and bought the new Zen V because I didn't want to go through with that hastle again, figuring they must have fixed the problem...same thing. Spent about 6 hours so far reinstalling software, adding plugins, patches, firmwares... It's too much. As much as I hate to it's time to go ipod. Bye, bye Creative.

 

[Dorkenstein]

I used to have a creative player and while the proprietary software was annoying, it worked fine in XP. Good luck anyway, maybe try JetAudio? They get good reviews.

 

[Auric]

I wouldn't buy a PiMP that required proprietary software. Did the Zen?? That is implied by the iPod though even if that means pay alternatives such as Anapod, is it not? I would just want to copy files over as if betwixt any other storage devices.

 

[VashHT]

I have the iAudio 20Gb player. Theyre the same company as jetaudio and its a really nice player. It shows up as a detachable disk on XP and vista, so if you dont want to you don't even need software to put stuff on it. Plus it can play quite a few different formats. I bought this instead of an ipod and am very happy with it. Anyway just commenting cause the other guy mentioned jetaudio.

 

[Dorkenstein]

Yeah I ended up using something from Redchair and then switched to Sveta Portable.

 

[idiotekniQues]

the only thing ive been happy with from creative has been my zen vision m. actually i did like my audigy 2zs as well, it worked great for years.

but im done with creative products on the pc side of things, as soon as an open AL non-creative card comes out, im done with them. no more money from me.

 

[Captante]

My first MP3 player was a 1db Creative flash-memory model & it didn't require any special software to function effortlessly in XP & it still works fine to this day ... just plug it in & it appears like a normal flash-drive, then drag files to it & they play.

Creative soundcards/drivers however do seem to be getting worse all the time & unless they figure out the Open-AL disaster before I switch to using Vista full-time I'll finally have to give up on them.

 

[The Sauce]

Everything, and I mean everything has been a disaster with this product. Won't install...calls to support... installs then XP won't recognize it...calls to support... then i get XP to recognize it and can't transfer music, then I transfer music and it crashes... then it crashes during firmware update...

Literally every step of the process has been severely bugged. You wonder if anyone has tried using this thing before sending it to market....

 

[xtknight]

People always complain about their sound cards. Personally I love my Audigy 2. It works great.

They didn't credit my ~$20 rebate which pisses me off a tad, but I'd still buy from them if they had a good product. If it was a rebate over $20 I would have been far more angered.

 

[Noema]

I really like my X-Fi, and I'd like it much more if it worked under Linux

I really hate having to go into the BIOS to activate onboard audio every time I boot into Ubuntu :|