Following the negative review in a previous post, i suspected that the problem was from the battery / I did a search and bought one new battery via the ebay. The battery costed me abt 12 Euros !
I tried to open the case but it was quit tricky to me . dfo this reason i given it to a tecjnicain to do the 'dirty job' IN just 2 minutes he opened the player unscrew a screw and change the battery . And Player is now working properly.
Now the player after the welcome screen it shows a menu this way:
At fist i thought that the red cycle was the navigation knob. but could nt do anything... readin a bit in the user's guide the navigation is amde from the middle button that worls as joystick
The menu consists of the music library , recordings , the just playing photos (ie very small sizes , some extras and system settings )
Teh recordings menu shows all recordings . microphone and inline recs / for all files as well as the tansfered files the screen shows the filename as scrolled . Pressing the joystick for several seconds i shows a quick menu for adding the file to playlist
Now playing shwos the current and the previous song
Photos shows the directory in a form as of Windows 7
Extrasmenu include date/time MIc rec Line in rec Organizer (calendar tasks contacts )propviding that you alerady have installed the provided CD in the packing
The player is recognized as a portable device . not as a removable disk.More on the end of this article
Settings: for audio - including level limitation , player settings (serial random play , one dir all dirs etc ) clock settings (adjsut time and date) - , language (abt 15 including tai chinese etc )and reset to default
Audio settings : play mode (serial , random , repeat , 9 equalizer modes and volume smart or excess compression )
Here is how a file is played. Special additions are available wth prolongd push on button as add to favs , add to playlists etc
Recording
Recording is the main reason i bought this player . Not only for shortwave logs but also for recording audio tapes , vinyls etc
This is the reason that this part is more dedicated . I very sparingly use it for playback
Here is a photo during recording. recording is made by pressing the REC button int he right part of the player .In contast to Nano plus , Zen V has the ability to adjust the earphone level during recording
Tere are 3 ways to use it for recording
1. use the special button at the middle of right side of the palyer
2. naviagate from the extras menu
3. from the quick menu
The quick menu shows :
In silent mode (is when is not recording ) you can also make these ajustmensts :
Maximum recording time is 10 hours (still wondering if that means ).If part of the memory is filled with files it shows the remain recording time
I have bought this player only for this reason . I think that its memory is quite small. Nevertheless 900 MB are enough for making recordings up to 980 minutes
Testing recording differences between V and Nano : As noticed in my audio test site on ipernity severeal people found that V has a bassier and richer audio than Plus
And a few more on the generated files:
In contast to Creative Zen Plus (PLus files are generated as in series ie ENC001 etc ) the files have the format LINE-2014-04-13 17h10m14s .wma ie showing date and time the file is saved
Audio : Creative was the leader on computer audio systems . Therefore their fidelity is surely the best among computer audio equipment . The same applies to this player . Using the tracks provided with the player the sound is superb . I have tested with the Sennheiser headphones which have the flatter audio response among my headphones. The highest possible level is still not very strong with these headphones
Instead of being recognized asa typical external media storage it has the format of a device as printer or external device ..
The player can be synchronized with the computer's media player . Drag and drop can work only for file transfer from and to computer but cannot be directly applauded to any site via the browser. The files have fist to be transferred to computer and then posted !
I found that in Win XP the files have registry format numbers etc that means as a peculiar string format esp the directories produced by the install shield or any other installation proram in the /temp directory
Once i have changed a recorded file via computer but the player still shown the recorded name !
MY verdict: 4/5
Zen V is an excellent recorder and player with a rich sound. The only awkward is with the connectivity and bevhaviour of its files ...
I tried to open the case but it was quit tricky to me . dfo this reason i given it to a tecjnicain to do the 'dirty job' IN just 2 minutes he opened the player unscrew a screw and change the battery . And Player is now working properly.
Now the player after the welcome screen it shows a menu this way:
At fist i thought that the red cycle was the navigation knob. but could nt do anything... readin a bit in the user's guide the navigation is amde from the middle button that worls as joystick
The menu consists of the music library , recordings , the just playing photos (ie very small sizes , some extras and system settings )
Teh recordings menu shows all recordings . microphone and inline recs / for all files as well as the tansfered files the screen shows the filename as scrolled . Pressing the joystick for several seconds i shows a quick menu for adding the file to playlist
Now playing shwos the current and the previous song
Photos shows the directory in a form as of Windows 7
Extrasmenu include date/time MIc rec Line in rec Organizer (calendar tasks contacts )propviding that you alerady have installed the provided CD in the packing
The player is recognized as a portable device . not as a removable disk.More on the end of this article
Settings: for audio - including level limitation , player settings (serial random play , one dir all dirs etc ) clock settings (adjsut time and date) - , language (abt 15 including tai chinese etc )and reset to default
Audio settings : play mode (serial , random , repeat , 9 equalizer modes and volume smart or excess compression )
Here is how a file is played. Special additions are available wth prolongd push on button as add to favs , add to playlists etc
Recording
Recording is the main reason i bought this player . Not only for shortwave logs but also for recording audio tapes , vinyls etc
This is the reason that this part is more dedicated . I very sparingly use it for playback
Tere are 3 ways to use it for recording
1. use the special button at the middle of right side of the palyer
2. naviagate from the extras menu
3. from the quick menu
The quick menu shows :
In silent mode (is when is not recording ) you can also make these ajustmensts :
- start recording
- delete recording
- review
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- bitrate [WMA only 128 and 160 ]
- synch [That means once the player finds audio gaps to immediately stop this is achieved by pressing for more than 2 secs the back button (bottom right ) ]
Maximum recording time is 10 hours (still wondering if that means ).If part of the memory is filled with files it shows the remain recording time
I have bought this player only for this reason . I think that its memory is quite small. Nevertheless 900 MB are enough for making recordings up to 980 minutes
Testing recording differences between V and Nano : As noticed in my audio test site on ipernity severeal people found that V has a bassier and richer audio than Plus
And a few more on the generated files:
In contast to Creative Zen Plus (PLus files are generated as in series ie ENC001 etc ) the files have the format LINE-2014-04-13 17h10m14s .wma ie showing date and time the file is saved
Audio : Creative was the leader on computer audio systems . Therefore their fidelity is surely the best among computer audio equipment . The same applies to this player . Using the tracks provided with the player the sound is superb . I have tested with the Sennheiser headphones which have the flatter audio response among my headphones. The highest possible level is still not very strong with these headphones
Comparison with Zen Nano: Using the Sennheiser headphones ,the sound is nearly the same with V being a little bassier . I used the audio files provided in V for this test
Computer connectivity:
The player can be synchronized with the computer's media player . Drag and drop can work only for file transfer from and to computer but cannot be directly applauded to any site via the browser. The files have fist to be transferred to computer and then posted !
I found that in Win XP the files have registry format numbers etc that means as a peculiar string format esp the directories produced by the install shield or any other installation proram in the /temp directory
Once i have changed a recorded file via computer but the player still shown the recorded name !
MY verdict: 4/5
Zen V is an excellent recorder and player with a rich sound. The only awkward is with the connectivity and bevhaviour of its files ...
