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It looks like the Creative Zen player is gaining popularity with the release of the Zen Xtra (sorry, I have a huge backlog in reading other blogs). I have been using the older Zen 2 for some time now and I find Red Chair Software's Notmad Explorer is the tool to take the pain out of getting your data onto the device by simply dragging it from one explorer window to another - eliminating the need to build (yet) another media library.

My current problem with the Zen is as follows: My Japanese albums, when ripped, automatically get named (file- and folder-names) in Kanji, when album info is downloaded from the internet. This works great in Windows Media Player and on the Windows Media Center when the East-Asian language support is installed, but transferring them to the Zen is impossible as the Japanese file-/folder-names are not recognized properly...