What to do with a busted MP3 player
Marc: I have an old Creative MP3 player (30GB) and the screen is busted. I don’t think it’s worth fixing, plus I plan on buying a 160GB widescreen media player soon, so what can I do with it?
- Jill D. From Calgary, Alberta
Marc: I have an old Creative MP3 player (30GB) and the screen is busted. I don’t think it’s worth fixing, plus I plan on buying a 160GB widescreen media player soon, so what can I do with it?
- Jill D. From Calgary, Alberta
Thanks for the email, Jill, and happy new year!
Here’s what I suggest you do with this Creative MP3 player with a busted screen: use it as a back-up external hard drive.
Yep, simply plug it into your computer’s USB port and it’ll show up as a drive letter, such as F: or G:, in a program like Windows Explorer. Now you can drag and drop up to 30 gigabytes of important documents, photos, music or whatever, and keep the MP3 player in a safe place in case anything happens to your computer.
Alternatively, if the screen is cracked but it still works, you can always use it as a backup MP3 player – you just won’t be able to see the track listing on the cracked LCD screen (like the iPod Shuffle).
Hope that helps!
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you could alwayz give it to me
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Get an iPod remember iPod is an Apple product thus not Microsoft, awesome hey! However iPods are backwards compatable and will work with MS Millenium or Vista as its now known and XP.
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dude apple is a terrible company. they make money on a retard proff system. keep as storage. dont listen to this dill hole
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If IPOD was any other product ie., car, stereo,dishwasher, they would be thrown out of the market place… repair by upgrade is criminal.. these things have a meantime between failure of what 6-12 months, no quality control, only one repair depot, terrible statistics.. if you are going to repair by upgrade and replacement you might as well by a no name product. and now the capabilities are in cell phones IPODs are fully redundant and waste of space.
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If IPOD was any other product ie., car, stereo,dishwasher, they would be thrown out of the market place… repair by upgrade is criminal.. these things have a meantime between failure of what 6-12 months, no quality control, only one repair depot, terrible statistics.. if you are going to repair by upgrade and replacement you might as well by a no name product. and now the capabilities are in cell phones IPODs are fully redundant and waste of space.
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hey! anyone know how I can add mp3s to my old version creative zen player. It isn't recognized by vista when i try to connect it to my laptop and the software disc freezes at the beginning of the install when I put it in my drive??? Thanks, david.
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to 'anon' who said "
"apple is a terrible company. they make money on a retard proff system."
The point of technology is to make things easier. Creating an 'easy to use system' is not a bad thing.
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Agreed; there may be more attractive MP3 players out there for those who know how to look, but the average iPod, while slightly over priced, is a pretty respectable product in and of itself. Repair by upgrade is, sadly enough, more a product of dropping technology prices, increasing device capacities and user ADD then some sinister Apple plot.
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Yes ben that's right….dropping technology prices and user ADD causes ipod batteries to crap out after a few months.
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alan is correct in the meantime or 'working life' of the product being only 6 to 12 months. By that time, companies launch the next generation of the device. Manufacturing companies know this. That's how they make money… Through sales, not warranty service.
Even Marc suggested, keeping the device as a back-up. Even he knows it's not worth it to repair it.
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