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new case/buttons for mp3 player

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JonnyK

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I have this 20gb nomad zen jukebox that is pretty much shot. it just died after a year or 2 of use, but i paid 250 dollars for the thing and i'd like to get some use out of it. it will still play songs fine, but i cannot get the computer to fully recognize it with a usb cable, it can tell that something is there, but it can't transfer data to it at all. lots of times when i push buttons on the sides of the player, to skip track, play, pause, etc. it will do the function of a different button for a few presses and then do what it is supposed to do. usually if i push the enter button to go into a menu or something, it will function like the play/pause button the first two times i push it, and then it will do the enter button function, stuff like that makes it pretty much un-usable.

what i would like to do is make a new case for it, or leave it out of the case, leave it in the case, whatever, but just make it work. If it can be a removable hard drive without the mp3 player function, that's fine. if i can set it up in a little box and leave it on top of my stereo as a jukebox, that's great, something. so what do you guys think might be causing it to not be recognized by the computer, why are my buttons going haywire, and what can i do to fix it?
 
Hey Johnny,
I've had a couple of Creative's HD-based players, and it sound like you might want to update the firmware on the Zen, and probably the drivers on the computer.

The sticky buttons might be as simple as dirty contacts - a q-tip and some alcohol should get any schmutz off.

To use it as an external drive, you could get around the bad USB connection with an IDE/USB adaptor, but it'd have to be pretty thin. I know such things exist, but most come with a separate power adaptor. If you could get one that ran off the USB, that'd be sleeker, and you could toss the battery.

As long as the adaptor wasn't too thick, you could probably keep the mini-usb plug in the Zen, and use the same cable, or you could just run a cable out the port, and add a strain-relief.

The Zen Xtra I have probably sees more use as a drive than an MP3 player - no broadband at home, but T1 lines at work. It also stores a backup of all my music...

Jon
 
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