Windows Media Player 11 with Creative Zen Vision: M

I have a Creative Zen Vision: M portable music player which stores all my
music on and I am running low on disk space on my computer so I want to be
able to have all my music on my Vision: M and have Windows Media Pleyer
connect to that for its Library. Is this possible at all? At the moment it
can't even find the MP3 player when I go to add the music files on the MP3
player to the library.

I had the smae problem. To fix do this. Plug in your Vision:M, go to device
manager/Portable Devices. Right click on the Zen and uninstall it. Unplug
the Zen and plug it back in. It should then reinstall the Zen and should
work.

That fixed it for me, expect the Media Player 11 crashes everytime that the
Zen is connected.

Oh well.

"Judge Amy Host" wrote:

> I have a Creative Zen Vision: M portable music player which stores all my
> music on and I am running low on disk space on my computer so I want to be
> able to have all my music on my Vision: M and have Windows Media Pleyer
> connect to that for its Library. Is this possible at all? At the moment it
> can't even find the MP3 player when I go to add the music files on the MP3
> player to the library.

Have tried this twice but it still wont let me use the media files on the Zen
Vision: M for the media library in WMP11. It wont even play them with WMP11
without importing them onto the computer first which is what I want to avoid
as I am low on disk space.

"hfa3" wrote:

> I had the smae problem. To fix do this. Plug in your Vision:M, go to device
> manager/Portable Devices. Right click on the Zen and uninstall it. Unplug
> the Zen and plug it back in. It should then reinstall the Zen and should
> work.
>
> That fixed it for me, expect the Media Player 11 crashes everytime that the
> Zen is connected.
>
> Oh well.
>
> "Judge Amy Host" wrote:
>
> > I have a Creative Zen Vision: M portable music player which stores all my
> > music on and I am running low on disk space on my computer so I want to be
> > able to have all my music on my Vision: M and have Windows Media Pleyer
> > connect to that for its Library. Is this possible at all? At the moment it
> > can't even find the MP3 player when I go to add the music files on the MP3
> > player to the library.

Someone from the device team could confirm for sure, but as far as I am
aware what you are trying to do is unsupported. WMP can play back local
files or files on standard storage devices, but portable devices aren't
supported for local-computer playback. =)

Regards,
-Zach
--
Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Judge Amy Host" <JudgeAmyHost@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85C7DA13-E7DF-49BA-BEC6-0D5EA7282F12@microsoft.com...
> Have tried this twice but it still wont let me use the media files on the
> Zen
> Vision: M for the media library in WMP11. It wont even play them with
> WMP11
> without importing them onto the computer first which is what I want to
> avoid
> as I am low on disk space.
>
> "hfa3" wrote:
>
>> I had the smae problem. To fix do this. Plug in your Vision:M, go to
>> device
>> manager/Portable Devices. Right click on the Zen and uninstall it.
>> Unplug
>> the Zen and plug it back in. It should then reinstall the Zen and should
>> work.
>>
>> That fixed it for me, expect the Media Player 11 crashes everytime that
>> the
>> Zen is connected.
>>
>> Oh well.
>>
>> "Judge Amy Host" wrote:
>>
>> > I have a Creative Zen Vision: M portable music player which stores all
>> > my
>> > music on and I am running low on disk space on my computer so I want to
>> > be
>> > able to have all my music on my Vision: M and have Windows Media Pleyer
>> > connect to that for its Library. Is this possible at all? At the
>> > moment it
>> > can't even find the MP3 player when I go to add the music files on the
>> > MP3
>> > player to the library.

I think that the team should try to make this feature work for the full
version of WMP11 if possible as I don't like the creative software for this
and really want to stay with WMP.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> Someone from the device team could confirm for sure, but as far as I am
> aware what you are trying to do is unsupported. WMP can play back local
> files or files on standard storage devices, but portable devices aren't
> supported for local-computer playback. =)
>
> Regards,
> -Zach
> --
> Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
> "Judge Amy Host" <JudgeAmyHost@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:85C7DA13-E7DF-49BA-BEC6-0D5EA7282F12@microsoft.com...
> > Have tried this twice but it still wont let me use the media files on the
> > Zen
> > Vision: M for the media library in WMP11. It wont even play them with
> > WMP11
> > without importing them onto the computer first which is what I want to
> > avoid
> > as I am low on disk space.
> >
> > "hfa3" wrote:
> >
> >> I had the smae problem. To fix do this. Plug in your Vision:M, go to
> >> device
> >> manager/Portable Devices. Right click on the Zen and uninstall it.
> >> Unplug
> >> the Zen and plug it back in. It should then reinstall the Zen and should
> >> work.
> >>
> >> That fixed it for me, expect the Media Player 11 crashes everytime that
> >> the
> >> Zen is connected.
> >>
> >> Oh well.
> >>
> >> "Judge Amy Host" wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have a Creative Zen Vision: M portable music player which stores all
> >> > my
> >> > music on and I am running low on disk space on my computer so I want to
> >> > be
> >> > able to have all my music on my Vision: M and have Windows Media Pleyer
> >> > connect to that for its Library. Is this possible at all? At the
> >> > moment it
> >> > can't even find the MP3 player when I go to add the music files on the
> >> > MP3
> >> > player to the library.
>
>
>