This download contains an improved version of the firmware found on your Creative ZEN® Style M100 player. For more details, read the rest of this Web release note.

What’s New:

• Fixes time display error
• Improves error message when playing unsupported audio format
• Improves sorting order of untagged songs (Please perform a "cleanup" in recovery mode after the firmware upgrade for this feature to take effect)

Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later
• USB port
• Creative ZEN Style M100 player

Notes:

To install this firmware, do the following:

1. Download the firmware file to your computer’s local hard disk.
2. Close all application windows that are currently running on your computer.
3. Connect your player to your computer.
4. Backup your player's content before proceeding with this firmware update.
5. Double-click the downloaded file and follow the instructions on the screen.

This download contains an improved version of the firmware found on your Creative ZEN® Style M100 player. For more details, read the rest of this Web release note.

What’s New: 

• Improved compatibility and support for wider range of Class 4 16GB/32GB microSD cards 
• Fixed play mode issues after playing recorded files
• Allows setting of sensitivity level
• Fixed recording issues
• Improvement in displaying long dates
• Improvement in general messaging  

Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later
• USB port
• Creative ZEN Style M100 player 

Notes:

To install this firmware, do the following:

1. Download the firmware file to your computer’s local hard disk.
2. Close all application windows that are currently running on your computer.
3. Connect your player to your computer.
4. Backup your player's content before proceeding with this firmware update.
5. Double-click the downloaded file and follow the instructions on the screen.

This download contains the video converter utility, SMV Transcoder, that can be used to convert videos from the WMV format to the SMV format which can be played back on the ZEN Style M300 and ZEN Style M100 players.

• Microsoft® Windows® XP (Service Pack 2)/XP 64-bit, Windows Vista®, Windows 7®
• USB port

Notes:

To install SMV Transcoder onto your computer, do the following:

1. Unzip the file, Video2smv Transcoder.zip to a folder on your hard disk.
2. Double-click the file, video2smv.exe, in the folder to launch this utility.
3. Refer to the file, Readme Video2SMV Transcoder.txt, for instructions on how to use this utility.

This SMV Transcoder (version 4.5.0.0) is developed by SigmaTel Inc. It is not part of the ZEN Style M300/M100 product and is not supported by Creative Technology Ltd and/or any of its related companies. This software is distributed AS IS in the hope that will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.