non-zen zen-ness: oh heck

October 27, 2006 5:44 PM

I just got a new Creative Zen Nano Plus 1gb mp3 player as a surprise gift from a friend. The trick is that I'm a Mac user, and by all official accounts the two are incompatible. Help, please.

No amount of googling seems to turn up info on hacks/workarounds that make it Mac-compatible, though I did find a mention (as part of a review on amazon.com) of someone using the 512mb player with iTunes on a Mac. When I connect this one to my computer neither one recognizes the other. I'm not exceptionally tech-savvy so I wonder if there's something crucial I'm missing.

posted by soviet sleepover to Technology (4 answers total)

Does it not show up in the same way a flash USB drive would when you connect it? Mine does, and I transfer songs that way.
posted by needs more cowbell at 6:38 PM on October 27, 2006

Best answer: Also: you have to push the USB cord into the player very very firmly, and to turn it on you have to hold the on button on for awhile.
posted by needs more cowbell at 6:39 PM on October 27, 2006

Response by poster: Oh heck, Cowbell, problem solved, if extremely sheepishly.
posted by soviet sleepover at 6:56 PM on October 27, 2006

I learned those things the hard way, after several minutes of being angry that I'd gotten a defective one :)
posted by needs more cowbell at 7:00 PM on October 27, 2006