I was looking for as a newbie could play a player who also Flac and have to compare the various Zen X-FI3 a compromise player not from Amazon but online at Creative gray in color, at the time with a free Universal Power Adapter for the price of 79.99 He was bought incl shipping. delivered, black in color. FLAC files (ripped with EAC) copied to the external memory card, are displayed in the folder tree with a question mark and when playing: "Unsupported file format". Then FLAC files converted with XMedia Record in MP3 and files are played, but too quiet and the information from the ID3 tag including image were not displayed. It was clear, the unit returns, however I found right away a total of no really convincing alternative. As mentioned in the reviews, abolished the firmware from America iS volume Remedy. In the following picture formats: FLAC files: converts to the EAC-FLAC files with XMedia Record in Flac \ 16bit by the artist name and an image is not displayed. When converting to FLAC \ 32bit comes a brief display: unsupported file format and then "wundelübelwundel" is image and text display. mp3-files: XMedia Record converts FLAC to MP3 with ID3 tags in version 2.4 to that does not read the player. Formatted to this example with MP3tag in the version 2.3 (Tools \ Options \ Tags \ Mpeg ... Be 2.3+ remove all) they are displayed correctly. That it Creative as I could read so far not managed, this format confusion is to fix rather a joke and is not a recommendation to buy, the way of Zen X-FI3 is not detected stable with me on a Win8 machines, XP does not cause problems. I keep the player despite the inadequacies because he sonically like me has a card slot and I am satisfied with the service.
