Creative Zen Stone Plus 2 GB MP3 Player with Built-in Speaker and Clip (Champagne White) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 23931
Color: Champagne
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.9 x 1.2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: ZSPS2GBCH
Model: ZSPS2GBCH
UPC: 054651152489
EAN: 0054651152489
ASIN: B0013FYODU
Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
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| Features:
| • | 2GB MP3 Player with up to 500 songs | | • | Skip-free MP3/WMA player | | • | Built-in speaker | | • | FM radio with 32 preset stations | | • | Voice Recorder & flash drive features |
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Product Description
The Creative ZEN Stone Plus with Speaker is powered with a built-in speaker, this means that now you can share your music out loud at the touch of a button. The perfect companion to avid sportsmen, the player captures personal bests with its stopwatch function, while letting you run to the invigorating beat of the music. Simply switch to radio anytime you fancy a change.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Creative Zen Stone Plus Sinks Like a Rock November 27, 2008
This is the fifth and LAST thing that I will ever purchase from Creative Labs. I bought it to play Audible books. The player does not play audible content. Although Creative told me that Audible content could only be downloaded through the Audible Manager, the Audible Manager does not even detect that the Zen Stone Plus is connected. I have spent months trying to get this MP3 player to work. I even asked Creative for a new player or for a refund. I stupidly didn't order this one from Amazon but directly from the Creative site. They told me to read two articles on their site (I already have them memorized) and that since 30 days was up, I would get no refund. A replacement was never mentioned in their response. In total I sent 5 messages to Creative trying to resolve this problem. Don't throw your money away - BUY AN IPOD!!!
DON'T BUY CREATIVE! October 31, 2008
The first mp3 player I bought was by Sony and it has worked pretty well, but since I didn't care for the design or the menu, I thought I'd buy a different brand this time around. The Stone really appealed because of its price, looks, and features. So I spent a lot of time reading reviews and despite the number of people that said theirs randomly stopped working, I still ending up ordering a Stone because of the price.
WHAT A MISTAKE! I started using the Stone right away and everything was going well. I laughed at myself for worrying. THE VERY NEXT DAY, my FULLY CHARGED Stone WOULD NOT TURN ON! I couldn't use the recovery tool that I downloaded from Creative either because when I connected the Stone, it wouldn't show up on the computer. MY STONE WAS DEAD WITHIN TWO DAYS OF USE!
So, there goes fifty bucks. (I bought the 2GB plus with speaker.)
Other reasons not to buy the Stone:
It is ridiculously hard to turn on and off and you have to press for way too long. The middle button isn't big enough or something. Whenever I try to turn it off, I end up turning up the volume super loud instead.
When you reach the end of a list, it doesn't go back up to the first one.
You can't choose individual songs in a folder.
Changing the mode it's playing (in one folder, on repeat, shuffle, etc.) takes way too long. I have to press the middle button, right towards options, down to play mode, and then up and down.
You can't browse music and listen to music at the same time. So let's say I want to go from my Carnival Ride folder to my Some Hearts folder. Well, as soon as I switch over to Some Hearts, Flat On the Floor is cut off because Wasted interrupts it and starts playing.
The clock doesn't work. When you connect the stone to your computer, it asks if you want to sync the time to your computer time and I said yes. Like an hour later, I checked the clock on the Stone and it reset. O_o Before my Stone died, I had synced it twice and both times this happened.
I think I've made my point. THE STONE IS A BAD BUY! So don't buy it.
The display did not work October 6, 2008
As I expected, but couldn't make the display to work and by that not the radio either
 everything but good sound September 17, 2008
absolutely worthless over fifty mph on a motorcycle with full face helmet - it's ok if you're just sitting around the house and aren't concerned about sound quality - not even close to a zen (which I broke and couldn't afford to replace). You gets what you pay for. Gave it to the Frau who listens to books on tape without earbuds (speaker) and she likes it.
 Bargain podcast player September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only listen to podcasts on an mp3 player. I bought this player because it was the cheapest one I could find where someone reviewed it and confirmed that it had Resume. By Resume I mean, if you shut it off entirely, when you turn it back on, it starts at the exact place you left off within whatever track it was playing. This feature is essential in a spoken word player.
Good
- Has Resume
- No batteries! It charges off of the USB connection. So far mine has charged itself to 100% every time I have connected it, just in the time it takes to refresh its podcast list.
- Charge lasts longer than a typical AAA battery did on my old, prematurely deceased, Sansa players.
- Tiny, about 1.5 x 2.5 inches, and almost weightless. If the clip falls off and it falls, which has already happened, it still works.
Bad
- No indicator for what track number you are on, just the track title. Since I have mine filled with podcasts I can't tell when I'm on the last one. Have to wait until they start sounding familiar.
- To open the clip you have to put your thumb on the clip and your opposing finger on the other side of the player right where the controls are, which often results in advancing to the next track by accident.
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