Kage
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Yeah, Creative and I-River have made a new for themselves to producing solid and performing sound jukeboxes. If I had to choose, I'd still go with Creative, though I-River models tend to have more customisation with recording on other devices and such.
As for sizes, you can get them all with 20gig hard drives and 40gb models too.
The Rio Carbon I tihnk only holds 5GB, and so if you want one as big as the I-Pod (20gb), then get the Rio Karma. I've heard good reviews from this.
Delta? What do you mean by the Creative Zen? There are loads. Do you mean the original?
Or do you mean the Creative Zen Xtra? Zen Touch? Zen Micro?... Any are good, though the original Creative Zens are seeming a bit clunky now and big, but the Creative Xtra (though rather big) can hold 60Gb of music at its highest hard drive limit. Not bad really, plus houses a 14 hour removable battery. This is the only player made by Creative that still has the Enviromental Audio plugin to allow for echos and other advanced effects seen on their Sound cards. People didn't seem to use them, so Creative got rid of it on later versions of Zens :|
As to answer the question, that seems like some kind of memory fault within the program itself. Open task manager after closing it, (control, alt, and delete) and then check in Processes that it still isn't secretly running.
If it is, stop the process and see if you can load it again.
Windows Media Player has done this a few times to me, and you have to close it down from here to make it open again, otherwise it just sits there. Sometimes I've closed it while music is playing and the music carries on, and at first I was like...what? Only happened a slight few times though. Overall, I am very happy with the new Media Player.
I've heard good things about I-Tunes too, though it seems to me more of a place to buy songs on the net rather than a music player as such. Though they've done a good job, I have to admit of setting it up, and all the EQ's and such. It would never replace Media Player for me though...I've never needed it.
As for sizes, you can get them all with 20gig hard drives and 40gb models too.
The Rio Carbon I tihnk only holds 5GB, and so if you want one as big as the I-Pod (20gb), then get the Rio Karma. I've heard good reviews from this.
Delta? What do you mean by the Creative Zen? There are loads. Do you mean the original?
Or do you mean the Creative Zen Xtra? Zen Touch? Zen Micro?... Any are good, though the original Creative Zens are seeming a bit clunky now and big, but the Creative Xtra (though rather big) can hold 60Gb of music at its highest hard drive limit. Not bad really, plus houses a 14 hour removable battery. This is the only player made by Creative that still has the Enviromental Audio plugin to allow for echos and other advanced effects seen on their Sound cards. People didn't seem to use them, so Creative got rid of it on later versions of Zens :|
As to answer the question, that seems like some kind of memory fault within the program itself. Open task manager after closing it, (control, alt, and delete) and then check in Processes that it still isn't secretly running.
If it is, stop the process and see if you can load it again.
Windows Media Player has done this a few times to me, and you have to close it down from here to make it open again, otherwise it just sits there. Sometimes I've closed it while music is playing and the music carries on, and at first I was like...what? Only happened a slight few times though. Overall, I am very happy with the new Media Player.
I've heard good things about I-Tunes too, though it seems to me more of a place to buy songs on the net rather than a music player as such. Though they've done a good job, I have to admit of setting it up, and all the EQ's and such. It would never replace Media Player for me though...I've never needed it.
I personally like the Micro...but because of the space issue, i wish they brought one out just like it (same design and features) but 20gb and/or 40gb.
