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Creative Zen MP3 Player / out of room???

Feb 21, 2009 4:20AM PST

I have a Creative Zen MP3 Player VPlus / 2 GB.
In only have 246 songs stored and I am getting the message that the device is full. I have no videos and no pictures loaded and the songs are all of average length.
How many songs on the average can I expect from 2 GB? Can I increase the storage without deleting songs?
I appreciate any feedback.
Thank you.

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depends
Feb 21, 2009 7:23AM PST

The average length song, about 4 minutes, should be about 4MB, if they were ripped at 128 kbps. That should take up approx 1GB. However, you actually have a little less than 2GB actual capacity on the player. However, that doesn't explain the discrepancy...unless your songs are at a higher bitrate.

I also have a 2GB Zen V Plus. I have 264 songs on it, half the songs purchased from Amazon's mp3 download store, which is at 256 kbps. the rest ripped at 128 kbps. I have 350 MB left. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to increase the storage on your player. When I mean easy, it isn't expandable by adding an sd/micro sd card like some of Creative's newer players.

If your songs were indeed ripped at a higher bitrate, you could rip the songs again at a lower bitrate. Delete the higher bitrate songs and replace them with the lower bitrate ones. That should gain you some space. Of course, this assumes that all those songs are from cds.

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MP3 or WAV ?
Feb 21, 2009 5:37PM PST

Check you haven't inadvertently copied some WAVs over to the player instead of MP3s -- I've done this occasionally and wondered why space suddenly got short.

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How to recover apparently lost space....
Feb 25, 2009 3:20AM PST

If you delete a file on the Zen the space is not immediately re-usable. You have to turn it off,then swith on while holding Play. Then select Clean Up. After this completes you can Reboot.
When it comes back on it will show as Rebuilding. When this completes you will have all the free space available. Why they made it like this I cannot say. But at least its fixable.