How do you load the music?
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The device comes with a cradle which plugs into a USB port. It effectively becomes a 'drive' at that point. I backed up EVERYTHING from the player to its own folder (just in case I needed to reinstall, et.). I then deleted the preloaded music, etc. and then began to add music to the Music folder. You could use Windows Media Player (sorry-am a PC person so can't address the equivalent for Mac!). However, I just used a normal file manager (am old school): I opened my Amazon music folder on my PC (where I keep my MP3s) and copied them over to the mp3 player. As far as playback- it will do so in alphabetical order of artist (I think)- so Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce will play consecutively. To get around that: if you want the equivalent of playlists- you need to 1) create a folder for the files & put the files there, and 2) rename the files with a precursor number to order the airplay in the desired order. A bit tedious on initial setup, but it's not terrible, either. There may be much easier ways to do this! ha! - but this worked for me. I swim laps (3000 yds 3 x week) and this device performs flawlessly. To me, it makes the workouts so much easier that I'm willing to put up with a bit of file management tedium on the initial setup.
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In that issue it is very friendly, much better than using I tunes, because you can just copy and paste your music, from some file of your PC to the music file of the Sony Walkman, and the music is ready to listen
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That has to be done digitally, you would have to convert your files to mp3 then create the play list in whatever application you use. IE itunes.
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How did you upload the music from the Zen to the computer? Any special software required?
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I also have Itunes.. i had to do some fiddling around but i finally got it to first convert the songs into MP3 but then I had to manually add them on to the MP3 player
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We were never even able to load music on it. It said all the music was downloaded on it but it never showed up or was accessible. Not sure if it shuffles
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It is as simple as plug it into your computer via USB cable then drag and drop songs into the music folder, I have almost a gig of music on mine and not half used.... this is probably the best little MP3 player I've seen.
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Thanks.For some reason it took about two weeks to work after doing the exact same steps.The same thing sometimes happens with music. I will rip some music and add it to my library, but will have to sync it several times before it sees it. Doesn't always happen, but I have noticed it.
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Use WMP or Zune, set the rip option to the format you prefer (mp3 is my choice) and pick quality of the rip. Set the directory where the ripped files will be stored (default is the music folder). Once ripped, you can transfer to any connected unit using file explorer.
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You can switch from folder to folder. You have to hit the folder button twice, then the up and down arrows on the remote. You have to actually select a song with in the folder using the folder button to play the song. It is kind of aggravating and takes a few tries though.
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Not directly. Just download the music to your computer and it will be downloadable to your player with the USB cord.
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If you put the music on a memory card then put it into a device like a phone, tablet, etc. you can listen to the music from the device.
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There is a USB. You kind of have to bend it to open it. I'm sure you can use any downloadable MP3 converter to put music in it. I haven't actually done it myself yet because I don't use it that often. I hope this helps! [:
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I currently have them in folders, but it really does not matter. I had them just as files before, but works the same. I listen to my music in shuffle mode, and it shuffles the mp3s from different folders.
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Just plug in the additional song modules into the empty sockets. Very simple.
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No playlist support, so far, and you can't import them. Will show artist, album, genre. But the sound quality makes up for the poor interface.
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A USB to your computer. It works with your music files. I use Windows Media Player. When you plug it in it opens the program and you drag songs onto the sync list, then click sync, and in a few seconds the music is loaded.
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Hi,Once you have downloaded the music to your hard drive, you can just drag the songs or the folder of songs to the Cowon. You can organize the songs on Cowon anyway you like. Hope this helps.