I recently purchased a Creative ZEN 16GB flash player.
For the most part it works well with MC12. I was pleased to see that the album artwork support works perfectly for this device, and that ratings made on the player are automatically transferred to MC's library when the player is connected. Unfortunately, the ratings transfer doesn't appear to work in the opposite direction. If MC could can out whether a file that is on the player has changed its rating and update its library accordingly, why can't it work out when a rating in its library has changed and apply that to files that are in the player?
My main concern with this device in MC12, though, is that there appear to be two issues with the Handheld details list/queue. The first is that if I connect the player and open the Handheld details view to see a list of files already on the player, every single song is listed twice. The dual listings appear to be identical, except where a track has been rated on the player, in which case the first listing shows the rating, and the second does not. The problem only appears to be aesthetic, since the list apparently still functions as it should... with one exception.
The exception is a problem regarding an inaccuracy in reported free space. Recently, I deleted an EP from the player using MC, fixed a tagging error, and tried to put it back onto the player. Although MC's Handheld details view told me there were 50MB or so of free space - and Windows Explorer agreed - when I tried to queue the EP (which was about 45MB), the Handheld drag-and-drop window told me I had queued files that were about 36MB over the capacity of the player. I appreciate that it might seem like quibbling, to focus on a relatively small amount of space in a 16GB player, but this inaccuracy makes me wonder if MC's integration with this player might have other issues that I may discover later on...
Do any of the problems I've listed have solutions that I have overlooked? Or are they most likely bugs? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated