If you own a pair of headphones that have an inline volume control then you can change the volume through them. You can also access the volume control from anywhere, there's just no specific volume button (no plus minus buttons but if you press "Options" on any menu you can access the volume from there. To answere your second question, I upgraded to the v2 firmware and I think I had about 4600 MB left after the upgrade. However I downgraded the firmware (yes you can do that) to the version 1.01.03 firmware as the MTP firmware would randomly freeze WMP (it would get to 100% transfer then freeze). The v1 firmware is much better as it works with MediaSource (the Creative software) and Zen Micro Media Explorer (the syncing program) without having to upgrade any of them.
I had a Rio Forge that died after two days and this player beats it hands down. If you're just needing the extra "go for it", well......GO FOR IT!!! I own this player and it is excellent. Sound quality, portability, size, everything. Hope this helps.
I am thinking seriously about buying a Zen Micro player from creative but as i did know from other people that one of its minuses is that it does not have a dedicated volume controller on it, i wanna ask: can i still get volume low and high thru a certain brand of ear buds that have a dedicatd wheel for its wire ???
1 more question plz - ok ?!!:
After reading the remarks on the firmware upgrade for that player and which makes it a "PlaysForSure/MTP" enabled device, Creative labs made a remark on this on this page: http://www.nomadworld.com/downloads/firmware/wma-getfw.asp?nProdID=556&sProd=Creative+Zen+Micro saying that:
PlaysForSure/MTP-enabled devices may reduce the maximum number of media files because of additional memory requirements.
Does that mean the 5GB will not become so after upgrading ? and how much i will really get ? 4 GB ?!! or how much ? and is it possible 2 flash with an old firmware if the new firmware didn't satisfy me ?
Thanks in advance and sorry 4 the too many questions but i just wanna understand the player defects/minuses b4 i burn my hard earned money.

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