I had the same problem with my Zen Touch, most of the files would cause no problem, however while FF some of the tracks I downloaded from a radio station website (podcasts)I would get Playback Error, contacted Creative, they replaced my player with Zen Sleek Photo, just got it today. The same problem with this player! Those podcasts are just regular mp3 files, could play them with no trouble on my PC and my pocket pc and my cell phone as well! So there is a problem with creative players.
Help please.
I have a Creative Zen Micro Photo 8GB and recently it has decided to stop playing mid song and display 'Playback Error' Does anyone know whats wrong and how to fix it?
Thanx
Chris

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