2020. 3. 11. 07:12ㆍ카테고리 없음
Like you, I am highly impressed with the Creative Labs Zen Vision:W see but it’s darn frustrating that Creative only makes its software available for Windows computers, not Mac. I know about the application that lets me add photos and audio, but it won’t let me work with movies.
So is there some sort of solution? Since Creative appears to be afraid of going head-to-head with Apple and its blockbuster iPod on the Macintosh, generally we Mac users are stuck. But on the other hand there’s always, which lets you run Windows XP on your Intel-based Mac quite speedily, and since the Creative Labs software is designed for Windows and since Parallels lets you access any USB device, well The first step was to install a fully functional version of Windows XP within the Parallels world (as documented here: ), then you’ll want to pop over to the and specify that you’re looking for software for a Portable Media Player.
Creative Zen 1gb Drivers For Mac Windows 10
You’ll end up here: Now there’s a ton of different software you can download, but the key elements are the PlaysForSure Firmware, and the Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer. If you’re running Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11), then you should also grab the Creative Media Explorer Update for Creative Zen Vision W to ensure it all works well. Download them and hopefully you’ll end up with the two (or three) install applications on the desktop. You need to start with the Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer, which immediately unpacks its data files when you start it up: Now you should plug in your Zen Vision:W or Vision:M into the USB port of your Mac and, after a few seconds, check the Devices menu in Parallels. If you have it automatically connect USB devices, it’ll look like this: If not, select the Creative Zen Vision to ensure it’s connected. And here’s where I get to a wall I can’t jump over. Regardless of what I try, I can’t get the Creative software to see the Zen Vision: So that’s where things stand at this juncture.
You can use XNJB to access much of the functionality of the Zen Vision but there’s no way that I can see to use your Mac to get this working properly. You might be able to get it working with Boot Camp, but after various problems I have had with Boot Camp, I junked it in favor of Parallels 3.0, which now runs both Vista and Windows XP.
If you have a solution, or, for that matter, if anyone from Creative Labs can explain a smart workaround for us, it’d be great to know! Sort of, Tom. I have figured out that I can copy the AVI files onto the unit with XNJB, but the problem is that the PC software from Creative does some sort of encoding / translation of the movie files (and sometimes converts them to WMV, from what I have seen), something that XNJB doesn’t do. The result is that the movies don’t have a duration on the Vision W, you can’t fast forward or otherwise move around, and sometimes they just don’t play, as I had happen with a movie last night, a movie in AVI format just like the many that have copied properly. Got the answer for creative Zen to work on intel macs without XNJB!!! I did just what ‘Dave” did, then ran into the same problemnone of the softwardes recognized the Zen player.
It didn’t appear as an external device (on the desktop or in the hardware) either. So, I went into the control panel (viewed in classic mode) under system, then hardware. I clicked on the player listed under unknown devices. 1st of all it may not show up right away, so unplug the player, plug it into a different usb port.
Then within the paralells menu go to devices, then usb, then select your creative player. You should move quic, because it may drop in a few minutes. Then the device showed up in unknown devices within the control panels’ system, hardware menu. There is something within the menu that allows you to search for drivers for the unkown device.
I let it search, it found the creative software I installed, then voille!! Please pass this along. Happy to contribute. Please refer to a visual detailed ‘what to do’ on this link:obj(26732). I just got a Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB. I have a new MacBook Intel with Mac OS 10.4. I am running Windows XP SP2 under Parallels.
Using Windows, I followed your procedure above and received the results you detailed. However, then I downloaded the latest firmware update and the Zen woke up. It took the latest update without trouble. The Creative software would not find my Zen. It kept saying “You do not have the correct version” or some such thing. However, then I tried Windows Media Player 10, and lo & behold, it worked! However, I am a Mac user now, and all my tunes are over in iTunes.
So, here’s my solution: I’m using the latest XNJB in Mac OS for the music uploads, and then for the odd video, I use Windows Media Player in Parallels. It’s messy, but it’s getting the job done.