Comments on: Creative Zen Stone Plus

By: Franklin Rhoads

Franklin Rhoads — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:33:32 +0000

I have a Zen Stone Plus. Is there a download available online so I can use it on my Windows 98?

By: A.C.E.

A.C.E. — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:17:03 +0000

I agree. The moment i bought it, i took it out of the box and i charged it up and i tried turning the stupid thing on and it wouldn’t turn on!!!!!!

By: Mohd Kamran Khan

Mohd Kamran Khan — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:17:49 +0000

my ipod creative zen stone plus is not geeting charge in my computer, its showing “PLUG” sign in the battery sign. plz give me solution, i m worrying

By: Pieter Bruin

Pieter Bruin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:18:30 +0000

Solution for Vista users:

My Zen Stone Plus would only be recognized by my Vista pc after I downloaded and installed version 1.52.01 of Creative’s Media Lite software, which includes the proper Vista driver.
After that Vista recognised the Stone as a hardrive.
Everything seemed to work fine but I was mistaken: the utility was not able to update the firmware of the Stone. It just hung, without an error message.
I decided to see if things worked better on my back-up pc which runs XP.

Everything worked great on this system, including the firmware updater!
Mind you, the firmware update is definately needed because it gets rid of the nasty ‘crack/gap’ at the beginning of every track, which occurred in shuffle mode.

Conclusion: the Zen Stone Plus is not fully compatible with Vista.

My advise:
1. Visit http://support.creative.com to download and install the latest Creative Media Lite software on a pc running XP (connected to the internet) to be able to update the firmware on the Stone to version 1.03.0x. This will NOT work on a Vista machine.
2. Install the same latest software on your Vista machine so it will recognise the Stone. You can use the Creative utility to rip cd’s and add the resulting mp3 files to your player and/or pc hardrive. You might want to use windows explorer to change the names of the added folders because the software uses the cd title (not the name of the artist) as foldername.
If you don’t need to rip anything just simply use windows to drag, drop and rename files and folders on your Stone.

Hope this helps :-)

By: pratik

pratik — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:43:29 +0000

hey nothing wrong with Creative Media Lite software i had 3 zen pm3 player 2 zen stone plus and 1 zune but all got detcted within seconds

Works great

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:01:24 +0000

I had this problem too. The Zen Stone Plus only seemed to want to be on the F: drive and it couldn’t do this if F: was already mapped (to a network drive). Disconnect any other drive currently mapped to F: and the Zen Stone Plus appears there and is then recognized by Creative Media Lite.

Hope this helps,
Ed

By: Swinestaiger

Swinestaiger — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:45:37 +0000

Sorry to bust your bubble bud, but maybe try buying a semi-recent windows program. windows 98 works with mp3s, try getting that… later would be better.
I don’t think trying to syncronise your creative stone to your cardboard laptop with little buttons painted on will work… or maybe it will… if you turn off your firewall..

maybe your trying to put the player in the wrong port.. try the one labled ‘usb.’ your better off not trying the ones labled ‘microphone,’ ‘DVD,’ ‘Monitor’ or your ‘Arse.’

And about going to the creative office personally.. maybe your scared of social interaction with real people, which might, and i sarcastically express, might, try to fix the problem.

In conclusion, i think you are the one with the tiny, ’stone’ brain if you’ve tried and cannot find the telephone support number for creative!!!

By: ramya

ramya — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:03:15 +0000

Hi i too have the same problem.can u help me

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:57:47 +0000

Software fails to install even after clean boot, download decompresses, installshield wizard opens a window to select language… and then just disappears! And the stupid manual is imbedded in the download!
Player works fine though without the software.

By: rui

rui — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:20:28 +0000

Learn how to use a computer, or upgrade your brain.

By: SB

SB — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:59:37 +0000

Just want to say that you must be stupid to turn off your firewall and antivirus to install any product. These kind of MP3 players should be recognised as a drive by windows and you should drop files into it, just like a memory key. Practically all MP3’s get shipped with a software element that is never going to work 100% to your satisfaction, just use whatever music software you already use. Even Media Player can sync with a memory stick!!
Read the manual.
P.S. One of the first things i do whenever i buy new hardware is check the web for new firmware.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:17:36 +0000

I’ve downloaded ‘Creative Media Lite’ but am having trouble getting going. I get the message ‘Creative Player is not detected’. Are you able to offer advice/help please? I can’t figure out how to get round the problem.

By: Stewie

Stewie — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:37:56 +0000

Not sure why Panda had so many problems – mine connected & was immediately recognized. I did not even bother w/ the software as you can just copy files straight to it like any flash memory drive.

The paperwork/manual that came w/ the device is rather lacking & going to the website was not much help either. Luckily, I was able to figure out how to do most of the actions myself after playing w/ it for a while.

By: ReviewZine.com

ReviewZine.com — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:35:43 +0000

Thank you for sharing your opinion..

By: Panda

Panda — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:15:02 +0000

The Zen Stone + is realy a very very stupid product. From the moment I bought it till now (2 weeks +), I’ve been trying to get it to work buty just cannot. I’m no technical idiot – I’ve tried switching off my firewall, switching it back on, shutting down my zone alarm and all sorts.

The software is really really stupid. There’s no info on the packaging that you need a certain software – Creative Media Lite. No CD provided, nothing! Not even instructions. You’d have to navigate through creative website and come to the realisation yourself that you need to download this software.

After downloading and installing, the software just cannot recognise the product. Whenever I hook up my product, the software window says – creative product not detected. How dumb is that. I’ve tried uninstalling, rebooting and re-installing – same end result.

Whenever I try to do a software update, it runs through the motion, then says “some parts are corrupted”. That’s it – there’s no follow up after that.

The best part is whenever I need support from Creative, I would have to go down to their office personally! What the fk! Have they not heard of telephone support??

In conclusion, I would have to say the brains that went behind this product resemble the size of the product as well – tiny.