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Creative restores FM recording to MP3 players

Creative has restored the ability to record FM radio on some of its MP3 players. Last month, Creative shipped an “update” to its FM-recording players that disabled the record-from-radio feature (they hid this information in the fine-print on the update, focusing instead on the fact that they’d added new languages to the interface). Now, about a month later, they’ve restored the feature, after great outcry from their customers.

The newest firmware for the Vision:M is now up and we have FM recording again. This is a great move by Creative as many people here were really losing faith in them, and the MP3 player industry as a whole because of this removal. Creative weren’t even adding the FM recording feature to their newest players (Zen Vision W, Zen V Plus, etc..) so hopefully that will also change. I congratulate Creative in making their wrong a right.

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(Thanks, Futwick!)

See also Creative Labs shafts MP3 player owners with feature revocation

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