| | |  | ZEN X-Fi | Home » » » ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN 32GB | | | | | | | Description: | | The Sound of Perfection Experience your MP3 music as the artist originally intended with ZEN X-Fi - the first player to restore the quality of compressed music with award-winning X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio technology. Indulge in rich audio where you can hear your music in crystal clear clarity. Take in guitar strumming, crisp cymbal clashes and deep pounding bass as detail lost during file compression are now beautifully restored. The built-in X-Fi technology intelligently moves a conventional left/right earphone stereo source away from your ears, virtually expanding it for an audio experience with a breathtakingly realistic depth of field. You'll feel as if you were listening to your music from a pair of high end speakers.  | Built with X-Fi technology
Experience the very essence of music perfection as you listen to audio in crystal clear clarity. Hear your music the way it was always meant to be heard. |  | True mobility
You can now stream music and photos wirelessly from your PC to your player within a home network. With the ZEN X-Fi, experience the sound of perfection wherever you go. |  | Stay in touch on the go
Stay connected with friends on Yahoo Messenger or Windows Live Messenger on the go1. Set up your ZEN X-Fi chat account here. |  | Premium, High-Quality Earphones
The EP-830 earphones give you optimum comfort together with excellent noise-isolation capability. |  | Sleek beauty
A pocket-sized player that weighs a mere 2½ ounces , ZEN X-Fi sports attractive curves with a graceful finish. |  | No need for external speakers
Be the life of the party as you share your music out loud with the powerful built-in speaker. |  | More content, endless enjoyment
Increase the size of your portable media library with an SD or SDHC card. ZEN X-Fi supports a wide variety of SD/SDHC memory cards. |  | Rich pictures, sharp detail
Immerse yourself in the brilliant 2.5" TFT screen with 16.7 million colors as you watch your movies and view your pictures. |  | Switch to radio
Catch the latest hits on the music scene with the integrated FM radio. 32 station presets let you switch stations with ease. |  | Wide audio support
Listen to your music in multiple supported formats such as MP3, WMA and AAC, including non-protected .m4a files from iTunes® Plus. Download Creative Centrale to rip, transfer and manage your media content easily. |  | Get ZENcast
Enjoy the ultimate collection of free video and audio podcast channels on www.zencast.com. Manage all your favorite subscriptions with ZENcast Organizer and experience the best of the free-to-share formats available. |  | Capture important information
Record your important meetings or personal audio memos with the integrated voice recorder. |  | Create the right mood
Set audio effects to enhance your overall music listening experience. Choose from 8 EQ presets or customize your own EQ and enhance it all with bass boost and smart volume controls. |  | Personalized alarm alert
Start the day on the right note with your very own alarm tone. You can even set the alarm for any day of the week. |  | Good listening practices
Creative cares about your hearing. Learn more on how to listen smart. |
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Select optional accessories to enhance your ZEN X-Fi experience. You can take your ZEN to the gym or for a run with an armband. Or protect it with a stylish silicone skin, soft leather case, and a screen protector. Party with a small, but powerful TravelSound ZEN X-Fi portable speaker system. Which ZEN player is right for you?
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| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 3.3 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.2 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 216 reviews |
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 AwesomeFeb 01, 2010
I love creative products. Bought this for my boyfriend for every day use and for work. He loves it. Easy to use.
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 Amazing sound, horrid playerJan 23, 2010
I've been using Creative products for almost twelve years now, and I've finally decided to start looking for audio products from other companies. The Zen X-Fi 32GB is what pushed me over the edge. There are a plethora of issues with this player, and if it weren't for the amazing sound quality, I would have returned it soon after I bought it. Let us count the ways Creative has finally hit rock bottom in the MP3 player department:
*You can use an SD card with the Zen X-Fi, but it does not integrate with the player's menu. In other words, you can't bookmark, create playlists, or continue playback of a track after you shut the player off. How lame is that?
*You can modify acoustics with the built-in X-Fi software, but you can't adjust the equalizer while the software is enabled. It's either X-Fi or EQ, but not both. Depending on you personal audio tastes and the quality of your headphones, this can be good or bad.
*Want to download album art to your X-Fi? Good luck with that. Even using Creative's Centrale software, your chances of getting the album art to display at all is pretty slim. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
*Avoid using the supplied Centrale music software at all costs. It is honestly the buggiest software I've ever had the dishonor of trying to use. It crashes constantly, it can take up to 1/2 hour to load (!), and none of the features work as intended. For the love of God, use MediaMonkey or WMP when you need to transfer files to the X-Fi.
*Speaking of transferring files, you can't do it with drag-and-drop like you could with Creative's older players. It will crash the X-Fi, forcing you to do a hard reset and rebuild your music collection.
*Creative's tech support is horrible, and not just for their players. Probably the worst in the business. Creative only released one firmware update for the X-Fi, which fixed absolutely nothing. Despite a huge uproar from customers (check out their forums), they have no plans to release any more fixes.
*No FLAC support; seriously, in this day and age? Fortunately WMA files sound particularly good on this player.
*The wireless function is useless, unless you're accessing music on your local network via Creative's music server or listening to podcasts. You can't IM or browse the internet. Oh yeah, you can also share files with other X-Fi owners that are nearby, but seeing as how only ten people own an X-Fi, that's pretty much useless too.
Despite all these problems (and there are a ton of minor issues, no room here to list them all), I can easily say the X-Fi is the best sounding player I've ever used. The earbuds supplied with the player are excellent, but I've used several other headphone brands to the same effect. Nice deep bass, crisp tones and crystal-clear sound. It seriously makes the iPod sound like audio sludge in comparison. Buy a pair of Ultrasone Zino headphones if you want a truly surround sound experience with the X-Fi.
In summation, buy the X-Fi only if you're looking for an outstanding audio experience. Other than that, avoid it completely and look at other brands.
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 DIED AFTER A YEAR OF LIGHT USEJan 18, 2010
I've always been a fan of Creative's products. In my prior purchases I always got quality and was overly satisfied, so when I got the Creative Zen X-Fi 32GB in late 2008's my expectations were no different. The player itself is really cool, it's sleek and delivers good (not great) audio quality. The software is awful, but with so many free music transfer programs nowadays it can be looked over. My complaint is that after a year of light use (around 1 hour a day) the thing just died off, it won't turn on at all. I am not very knowledgeable about electronics but my guess is that it's got something to do with the battery. Anyways, I'm sure its going to affect my budget negatively. I wouldn't have bought it if I knew the battery was so badly made.
 Beware if you want to use it for Audio-BooksJan 14, 2010
Only if you dig deep enough will you find the deficiencies regarding using this player for Audio-Books.
1. Setting a "Bookmark". You set a manual "Bookmark" before you stop listening to a book so that you can return to where you left off. The player can hold up to 10 bookmarks at a time. However, when you select that bookmark to return to where you left off there is a problem. The Zen correctly resumes playing where you left off, but it stops playing at the end of the current chapter of the book. It does not continue playing the other chapters of the book in succession. You must return to the Main Menu, browse to the book, and then browse to the desired chapter and begin play there. Many MP3 audio books are broken up into 40-60 chapters. A major PITA. If you listen while driving it is unsafe to do this.
Initially, the player would crash if I selected a bookmark and then hit rewind so that I could be reminded of what was happening in the story at the point where I saved the bookmark. I was able to fix this by using the Zens "Recovery Mode" and running "Clean Up". After doing this there were no more crashes.
2. The auto-bookmarking feature. If you stop listening to your audio-book for a short time, and you don't play anything else, when you turn the Zen back on it will automatically resume where you left off. It will continue from where you stopped listening and it will continue to play all the remaining chapters of the book in succession. Perfect. However there is another problem. If you leave the Zen off for longer (an hour or more?), when you turn it back on it resumes at the BEGINNING of your current chapter, not where you left off in that chapter. Now you must hunt through the chapter until you find the spot where you left off, which can be quite time consuming. Also, unsafe to do while driving.
3. Using an SD Memory Card in the player. When playing a book from a memory card you lose all the bookmarking features built into the player and it becomes totally impractical for books. Additionally, the player does not join the content stored on the card with the content stored in the Zens built in memory and so it does not show up in "Albums", "Genres", etc. It works like this: From the Zen's Main Menu, you browse the cards folder structure and select content to play by file name. Not very convenient or practical.
4. The Zen is compatible with MP3 books, Audible books, and Overdrive Library Books.
It is a shame that the players bookmarking features are so poorly implemented. One can only wonder at the reasons for this. I imagine that the hardware must necesitate the restrictions because only an idiot would choose to implement them in such a crippled manner.
Other than the above, I like the player.
Long Before There Was An IpodJan 14, 2010
Long before I pod existed on anyone's radar or xmas list there were Creative mp3 players. I know, I have owned them since they were released and in each instance never looked back. The XiFi is another in the long line of fine players.
Great sound, great price and super ergonomics.
The downside to these products, though they get better with every release is the software. Sometimes it freezes, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it'll quickly go through all I need to and sometimes you just scratch your head and say rebooting will fix this. Shouldn't happen, not for what it's being asked to do and with so many 3rd party programs like J. River Media Jukebox, a treasure if I have ever seen one for software.
Except for very minor issues including the software issues, this is a compact powerhouse for images, music, videos etc. Also comes with a FM radio and streaming.
Fix the software and this is the audiophile player to get. It's that good...
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