Creative Zen X Fi2 User Manual
Introduction
This User Guide details the features of your Creative ZEN® X-Fi2.
Creative ZEN X-Fi2 is a music and video player, alarm clock, recorder, and radio, all rolled into one. To
increase your player's data-storage capacity, insert a memory card in the microSD™ card slot.
For setup and installation instructions, refer to the printed Quick Start leaflet that comes with your
player.
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Your Player at a Glance
This section introduces your player and its parts. Click the numbered labels for more information.
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Turning Your Player On or Off
To turn on your player, press and hold
until the touch screen turns on.
To turn off your player, press and hold
until the "Shutting down..." message appears.
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Navigating Your Player
With the use of the touch screen, you can access almost all the features and functions of your player. In
general, you can tap the screen to select an item. You can also swipe your finger across the screen to
scroll through a list or a series of screens.
To directly return to the main menu at any point, press the Menu button
.
To select an item, tap the corresponding icon. To display the available options for a feature or function,
tap . To return to the previous menu, tap
.
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When you see or
on one or both sides of the screen, you can drag the screen to the right or left. This brings you to the
previous or next screen.
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To scroll through a list, swipe your finger up or down the player's screen.
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Locking Your Player
Locking temporarily disables the touch screen and buttons on your player. This feature is useful when
you do not want to accidentally activate functions on your player, such as when your player is in your
pocket or bag.
To lock your player, press . The Lock
icon appears on the screen header.
To unlock, press either
or the Menu button. On the screen that appears, drag the lock icon towards the edge of the screen.
See also Enabling Auto Lock.
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Playing and Managing Media Files
Ripping Music
Loading Files Into Your player
Creating Playlists
Playing and Managing Music Tracks
Viewing and Managing Photos
Playing and Managing Videos
Listening to FM Radio
Recording with the Built-in Microphone
Hiding a Folder
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Ripping Music
When ripping tracks, make sure that they are
tagged properly. See Tagging Your Audio
Tracks.
If you are connected to the Internet and you have
registered with a music information provider,
album information will automatically be retrieved.
When you rip music, you convert music tracks (often from CDs) into a format suitable for playback on
your computer. You can easily rip music with applications such as Creative Centrale
or Windows Media® Player.
Make sure the audio CD you want to rip from is placed inside your CD drive.
1.
Start Creative Centrale on your computer.
2.
In Creative Centrale, click the Rip button. Follow the instructions on the screen.
3.
For more information, click the Help button.
3.
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Tagging Your Audio Tracks
Every audio track (MP3 or WMA file) has a set of properties that contains information such as song and
album title, artist name and genre. Using these properties, your player organizes your music library into
categories such as albums, artists and genres, enabling you to browse your huge collection of audio
tracks quickly and easily.
If an audio track contains inaccurate properties, such as unrecognized characters or incorrect details, you
may not be able to perform accurate searches on your player.
For a better experience, make sure your audio tracks contain correct properties.
To automatically tag audio tracks
While connected to the Internet, use Creative Centrale to rip audio tracks from audio CDs. Creative
Centrale uses MusicID
from Gracenote® to automatically retrieve information about your audio CDs and create track
properties.
To manually tag audio tracks
You can use Creative Centrale to fill in audio track properties manually. For information , click the Help
button in Creative Centrale.
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Loading Files Into Your
When you connect your player to a computer,
the computer recognizes your player as a
removable disk drive. You can use Windows®
Explorer to perform familiar operations such as
Copy, Cut, or Delete.
If a memory card is inserted in the player's
microSD Card Slot, your computer recognizes
the memory card as another removable disk drive
apart from your player. See also Transferring
Files to and from Your Memory Card.
Player
You can use Creative Centrale to load files to your player. Before loading, make sure that the files are
located in folders that are specified in Creative Centrale's Watch folders
.
For more information, refer to the application's Help file.
Warning!
Avoid disconnecting your player from your computer while file transfer is in progress.
To avoid data loss and damage to your player, disconnect your player properly. Click the Safely
Remove Hardware icon on the Taskbar, click Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device
.
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Creating Playlists
A playlist consists of music tracks that you select from the player's music library.
You can create several playlists, and later on select and play them exclusively. This is very helpful if you
want to listen only to certain songs from a huge collection of music in your player.
Creating a playlist consists of 2 main steps:
Step 1: Adding music tracks to Selected Music list
Make sure that the Selected Music list is initially empty. See Removing Tracks.
1.
On the main menu, tap Music > All Tracks.
2.
Tap and select Add Tracks.
3.
Select the music tracks that you want to be in a playlist, and tap Yes to confirm.
4.
The tracks are added to the Selected Music list.
4.
Step 2: Creating a playlist from the Selected Music screen
Press the Menu button to return to the main menu.
1.
Tap Music > Now Playing.
2.
Swipe your finger towards the left to proceed to the Rating screen.
3.
You should be able to see a row of stars at the bottom part of the screen.
3.
Swipe your finger again towards the left to proceed to the Selected Music screen.
4.
Tap and select Save as Playlist.
5.
Enter a playlist name by using the virtual keyboard that appears.
6.
Tap after you have finished.
7.
To play the playlist, go to the main menu and tap Music > Playlist
, and select the playlist name that you set in the procedure above.
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Playing and Managing Music Tracks
You can play your music by albums, artists, or genres. You can also play a music track individually
based on the track title, or you can create and play personalized playlists that consist of tracks that you
pick.
Press the Menu button to return to the main menu.
1.
Tap Music.
2.
Select a category, such as Albums or Playlists.
3.
If you want to play by track titles, select All Tracks.
3.
Tap the track title to start playing.
4.
Media Toolbar
While a track is playing, tap the screen to display the media toolbar. To immediately hide it again, tap on
an area outside the toolbar.
The media toolbar automatically disappears after a few seconds of inactivity.
Volume Control
Tap
in the media toolbar to display the volume controls. Drag the volume slider up or down to adjust the
volume.
Alternatively, you can press and hold the Menu button to display the volume controls.
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Track Navigation
In the media toolbar, tap to pause the current track. Tap
to resume playback.
To skip to the previous or next track, tap or
.
To fast-forward or rewind, drag the playhead to the left or right.
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Shuffling and Repeating Tracks
Set the Play Mode to specify the playback sequence of your music files.
On the main menu, tap System > Audio Settings > Play Mode.
1.
Select one of the following items:
2.
Normal
Plays your selected tracks in sequential order.
Repeat Track
Repeats the current track.
Repeat All
Repeats all selected tracks.
Shuffle
Plays all selected tracks in random order, once only.
Shuffle Repeat
Plays and repeats all selected tracks, in random order.
Track Once
Stops playing after the current track ends.
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Rating Tracks
Rate how much you like a track, so your player's DJ (see Your Own DJ
) can automatically play your favorite tracks. Choose from one to five stars.
Tap Music > Now Playing.
1.
Swipe your finger towards the left to proceed to the Rating screen.
2.
A row of stars appear at the bottom part of the screen.
2.
Tap the stars to rate the current track, with five stars being the highest.
3.
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Removing Tracks
On your player, this procedure refers to removing tracks from the Selected Music list only. The tracks
are still on the player and can be accessed from submenus like Artists or Albums
.
To permanently remove tracks, use the Delete Track function. See Deleting Tracks
.
On the main menu, tap Music > Now Playing.
1.
Swipe your fingers towards the left to proceed to the Rating screen.
2.
You should be able to see a row of stars at he bottom part of the screen.
2.
Swipe your finger again towards the left to proceed to the Selected Music screen.
3.
Tap and select Remove Tracks.
4.
Select the tracks to be removed and tap Yes to confirm.
5.
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Deleting Tracks
This action permanently deletes tracks from your player.
To remove tracks from the Selected Music view only, see Removing Tracks
.
On the main menu, tap Music > All Tracks.
1.
Tap and select Delete Tracks.
2.
Select the tracks to be deleted and tap Yes to confirm.
3.
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Using Bookmarks
A bookmark marks a point within a track, so you can return to it at a later time.
For example, if you are listening to a lengthy track or recording, you can insert a bookmark if you need
to stop. When you want to continue listening exactly from where you left off, go to this bookmark.
Your player can accommodate up to 10 bookmarks.
To insert a bookmark
Play the track you want to bookmark.
1.
In the Now Playing view, tap and select Set Bookmark.
2.
In the Set Bookmark screen that follows, tap an empty line number.
3.
If all 10 bookmark numbers have been assigned, you can tap an existing bookmark to replace it.
3.
To go to a bookmark
On the main menu, tap Music > Bookmarks.
1.
Select the bookmark that you want.
2.
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Your Own DJ
Instead of selecting tracks yourself, let your player's DJ pick the tracks for you.
On the main menu, select Music > DJ.
1.
Select one of the following:
2.
Album of the Day
o
Plays any album.
o
Random Play All
o
Plays all tracks in random order.
o
Most Popular
o
Plays frequently played tracks.
o
Rarely Heard
o
Plays rarely played tracks.
o
Highly Rated
o
Plays tracks that you have rated highly.
o
Yet to be Rated
o
Plays tracks you have yet to rate.
o
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Viewing and Managing Photos
Start a slideshow. See Viewing Slideshows.
Zoom in on a photo.
Rotate the photo 90° at a time.
Display the volume control.
Access the available options.
To load photos on your player, use Creative Centrale or other programs such as Windows Explorer.
When using Window Explorer however, make sure that you load the files in the Photos
folder in your player.
You can also load photos that are organized in folders and subfolders.
Viewing Photos
On the main menu, tap Photos.
1.
Folders and photos are displayed in thumbnail view.
1.
Tap a photo thumbnail to view in full screen.
2.
If the photo is inside a folder, tap the folder to access the contents.
2.
To see the next or previous photo, swipe your fingers across the screen. The directional arrows
3.
or indicate available screens on the left right side.
Media Toolbar
While viewing a photo, tap the screen to display the media toolbar. To immediately hide it again, tap on
an area outside the toolbar.
The media toolbar automatically disappears after a few seconds of inactivity.
Using this toolbar, you can tap an item to do the following:
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Rating Photos
Rating a photo means that you consider this as one of your favorites, and you can mark the photo with a
. After rating, you have the option to view the rated photos only.
You can rate the currently displayed photo, or you can rate several photos from a list.
To rate the current photo, tap and select Rate Photo
.
To rate several photos, tap Photos from the main menu. If the photos are inside a folder, tap the folder
to access the contents. Tap and select Rate Photos. Select photos and tap Yes
to confirm.
To view your rated photos, select Photos from the main menu. Tap and select View Favorite.
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Setting a Wallpaper
You can set any of the photos in your player as a wallpaper.
On the main menu, tap Photo.
1.
Select the photo that you want.
2.
In the media toolbar, tap and select Set as Wallpaper.
3.
In the photo toolbar that appears, tap the arrows to set the Brightness and Tone .
4.
Tap Yes to confirm.
5.
To remove the wallpaper, see Removing the Wallpaper
.
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Deleting Photos
You can delete the photo that is currently open, or you can select multiple photos and delete them
simultaneously.
To delete the current photo only, tap and select Delete Picture
.
To delete multiple photos
On the main menu, tap Photos.
1.
Your player displays the contents in a thumbnail view.
1.
If the photos you want to delete are located in a subfolder, tap the specific folder to display the
2.
contents.
While in a thumbnail view, tap .
3.
If you want to delete all of the folder's contents (including subfolders and their contents), select
4.
Delete All. The contents are subsequently marked for deletion.
If you want to select specific items only, select Delete Photos. Tap the photos and subfolders
4.
that you want to delete. The selected items are marked with .
Tap Yes to confirm.
5.
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Viewing Slideshows
On the main menu, tap Photo.
1.
Select a photo thumbnail to view it in full screen.
2.
In the media toolbar, tap .
3.
A slideshow starts for the photos inside the current folder only.
3.
To set the display time for each photo, tap in the media toolbar, and select Slide Interval
.
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Display Options
You can select from among predefined thumbnail layouts when you view photos and folders. From the
main menu, tap Photos. Tap either or
to switch from one thumbnail layout to the other.
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Playing and Managing Videos
Loading Videos to Your Player
Playing a Video
Deleting Videos
Playing a Video on TV
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