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This thing is amazing! I barely used my phone at all in the morning and all through the afternoon as I went about my business. I got sucked in for the evening onwards, but baby steps.
... I'll need to download more music, and get a bigger SD card. I've already played and replayed every single one of them I had loaded onto my Echo Mini these past 2 days.
Nice!!
I found the Creative Zen at an opshop for £1, but it had no charger. Got one off Amazon for about £8. Turned out it was the 20gig model and the battery still holds a charge for a good week! Couldn't get it accessible with any OS I had (tried Windows 10 and 11 and Linux Mint), but at least it came preloaded with 4,261 songs that I'm still going through (not all are good). Any suggestions to get songs on the Zen would be appreciated lol
Maybe you can try to use Rockbox custom firmware? I learned about this project just the other day watching this video on YouTube: This iPod is built different | @WolfgangsChannel. It made me want to go pick-up my Creative Vision:M at my parents and try to revive it !
Thank! I actually looked into this project when I first got it, but it's not stable-ported, and I'll lose all the songs currently on it (songs I can't back up, because of driver incompatibilities).
Does it work with Winamp? Winamp Just Works with a surprising variety of old media players (still) including the ability to load files onto them. It even works with ancient iPods.
Oh... that's a good point! I haven't tried, since the og winamp died long ago. I need to give this one a try. Maybe the translation layer to get the device recognized plus winamp for transfers... Thanks for the tip!
Yeah...you need a Win XP machine or vm. Then find the software suite online (Internet Archive mainly)
OneCoreAPI is super helpful for using old apps on new windows and vice versa. Dramatically improves compatibility with ReactOS as well.
It is a project to unify the NT ecosystem.
Source: https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries-Canary
Website: http://shorthornproject.com/onecoreapi.html does not support HTTPS, connection not secure to this site
That's what I've been able to find so far, too. I tried a few compatibility layers, but the farthest that got me was to allow the OS to "see" which device was connected, without being able to communicate with it.
I may spin up winXP on my old IBM ThinkPad R21 and make, essentially, a single purpose machine lol
Whatever you do don't put it on the network! I sneakernetted everything to my XP machine.
Oh hell no! That thing won't even know my flat has a network lol!! That is a really good point, though.
Hmm mine was a different model but it could connect as a standard usb storage device
Mine only connects as MTP, and only after the layer installation. : /