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Summary: Pretty cool...
Review: An excellent player.Pros: -60gb at $350.
-Nice windows explorer integration (to copy files back and forth)
-Comes with a case.
-Long battery life. Cons: -Feels a bit big. With the case on, fits in front pocket uncomfortably. I wish it was about 1/2" less in width. The case really makes it huge.
-Case covers LCD window when closed, but all controls are accessible.
-Headphones did not fit my ears at all! Well, it's a nice player..but I think Ipod's design is far better. The Nomad Xen is a Lexus, the IPOD is a BMW. If Ipod had a 60gb model with long battery life, I'd rather have the Ipod.
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Summary: Excellent product, excellent value
Review: HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED PROS: 60GB storage. I have almost 900 CDs. No other product currently available will hold this capacity without seriously compromising sound quality. Size/weight. This unit is only very slightly larger and heavier than the iPod, and you get 50% more storage capacity (for $100 less!) When I look at my huge shelf of CDs, which is about 7 feet high and 3 feet wide, I literally can't believe all this music fits on this little unit, about the size of a deck of cards! But it does! (With plenty of room to spare for future additions to my CD collection.) Great sound quality. I am saving my tracks in WMA format, as side-by-side comparison between MP3 and WMA at various bitrates consistently rendered better results (although slightly larger file sizes) with WMA format. Even with the cheap little earbuds Creative includes with this player, all genres of music sound crisp and rich. Bright LCD, menu easy to navigate. Everything is right where you'd put it if you were designing this product yourself. Easy to also plug this into my home stereo system or car stereo, so I can have my entire CD collection literally anywhere I go. Price. I got this direct from Creative Labs for $399. (And Amazon currently has it for $350!) A 40GB iPod costs $499. By extrapolation, if they ever come out with a 60GB iPod, it will cost $650-750. What a deal from Creative! Summary: I have literally been waiting for years for a product like this, and now I am SO glad I waited instead of settling for a lesser 20- or 40-GB product. If you have a ridiculously huge CD collection like I do, I cannot recommend this product highly enough. This is the best electronics purchase I have made since I got a Sony CyberShot digital camera. CONS: The earbuds don't fit well in my ears. Either the buds are too big, or my ear holes are too small. The carrying case should have a clear plastic window so you can see the LCD even when the unit is in the case. Instead, it has a solid black flap that covers the LCD, so if you actually want to look at the screen you have to un-snap the case. Stupid design. Software takes a little while to learn, but once you figure out all the options & preferences it is pretty solid. No resets or crashes yet! Summary: a couple of nitpicky problems, but overall this unit far surpasses anything else in this product category.
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Summary: amazing machine
Review: This is a great device. I do, however recommend it to the computer literate person. You have to be able to have enough patience to read through the manual and experiment with the software before you rush into downloading everything. So take your time and you will be rewarded. The best feature is its sound. I hooked it up to some bose earphones and fantastic. The usb2 port is fast and accurate. You can do everything with the fantastic software. I have just scratched the surface and have over 1000 songs. I love downloading them from the web. I create my playlists and have a great time. I like the random feature which lets you basically have the machine cut loose and play your tracks at random. I think it is the best machine on the market and highly recommend it to the serious music buff. I warn you that you will have to download a new operating system and I was a little frightened at installing it but it works great. One word of warning don't create a blank playlist and try to play it. This causes the player to hang but only until you use a paper clip to hit the reset button. And I havent lost anything yet. So get one and have fun. By the way the battery is inserted so no problems when you need a new one and you can download everything just using windows media player. A fantastic deal.
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Summary: Its a five next to the Ipod
Review: As of the year 2004 and your looking for a jukebox you can play with I highly recommend this product.Its more attractive than your girlfriend or boyfriend. BIG storage, fast transfer, palm size,amazing suround sound with many different soundmodes,14 hr battery life, and many many many more features.The software it comes with easy and organized.The earbuds it comes with is awesome,fits me perfectly and again it sounds great, best sound quality earbuds produced. At times I transfer about 500 or more mp3's and it takes like 7-12 minutes and I have a SLOW computer.Only thing you should be AWARE of that all recharchable batteries-if charging while being used or over charging or charging when there is plenty left can damage it and it will slim the battery life down in half.One last thing-since the faceplate is deattachable, CREATIVE LABS should design alteranative faceplates.RED,BLUE,GREEN...ANd DOnt Drop it,its like any other baby or jukebox, it can die.
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Summary: Total Trash
Review: I bought one of these and it worked olny ok i had trouble with importing tracks + at tis point the thing is usless at 6 mo old.
This unit has not been dropped my most major problem occured when I had decided to fix my id3 tags which the player uses for its catalog, so i removed the MP3s with the supplied software and reloaded the same MP3s with correct id3 tages and now you cannot hear the vocals and some portions of the music.
Creatives responce was to want to charge me to send it to them to look at and from my understanding I am not the olny person with this problem, buy another brand player do yourself a favor.
Befor this problem player had great sound
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Summary: Best
Review: If your tyring to compare this or an ipod, defintally go for this, It can hold up to more songs than you know, great features, great quality and long lasting battery.
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Summary: It's Simply the Best
Review: One of the reason's I buy the Nomad is the hard drive capacity and beacause it's made by Creative labs so I realy like great sound.
Also my brother borrow me his 20GB IPOD for A weekend and I realy get an auful experience for example you only can install the IPOD on 1 computer an that's all so you need the 20GB in your computer (that'a a lot of space) for the music, another thing the batery life of the IPOD suck it only works 6 hours whitout the sound efects.
Maybe the ZEN have a funky software but after 10 minutes you will be O.K. , also the fact that can I go whit my friends and download their songs, videos and all that stuff it's realy cool, another great feature is the sound efects they are great and realy cool and I can use it all the time and the batery will last about 9 hours (12 normal), you can also put a startup picture (a simple one of 160x104).
It's the best player some body can buy.
Say Hello to my new best friend.
I really Love it.
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Summary: Great MP3 Player, Amazing Hard Drive space!
Review: As any Hard Drive based system this one:
1. Is somewhat heavy
2. If you drop it it might get damaged.
3. Is not as small as the Flash players.
4. Requires software to transfer songs and files.
The Mediasource software is problematic for some people, because won't let you create folders to storage your MP3 Tracks. Well, the concept of this sofware is more like database oriented where you have only 1 huge database file and then you can create playlists with the tracks you choose.
To create playlists and understand how your player organize its music doesn't take long if you are a regular computer user. For the rest of the people there are other type of products to choose from. Zen Xtra is not a good option for them.
The leather case is great, The quality is OK and protects the player really good.
My only complain goes to the battery compartment. Sometimes, if I press hard my player (Jogging) the battery moves inside and then the player stops, restarts and rebuilds the database. Mine has 18 Gb of music only and takes about 2 minutes to rebuild. Not too bad. I put some tape on the battery and that solved the problem because is not loose anymore.
And believe me... The battery life is one of the best features of this gadget. I haven't run out of power yet!
The sound is superb, with all those preset settings that you can choose from, like: Smart volume, Time-scale, Custom, etc.
The find music feature works good when you have thousands of songs in your player. Once you find the song you want to hear you only have to wait about 2 seconds... That's fast enough for me if in my database I have around 4200 songs!
You can play your music by genre, artist, playlist, by album.
The screen is so big. You can see the name of the screen and style (List or Tab), title of the song, album, singer, genre, total time, elapsed time, playmode, equalization mode and battery indicator. The stylish blue backlight let you see the screen at night.
I haven't change or actualize the firmware, no need to yet, because I haven't had any problems requiring me to do so.
I recommend this player to people that are willing to take some out of the box measures (Like fixing the battery problem or the way you store your music on your PC), for people that want things to work exactely the way they want, well this is not the right toy for them.
My score for this gadget is 4 out of 5.
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Summary: Broke in 72 days (Firmware Problem)
Review: Like many, I read as much as I could before purchasing my 60 GB Zen Xtra. People either loved it or hated it, but isn't that always the case? Why would someone waste their time to say it's ok. The negative reviews were not enough to stop me from making the purchase. I spent weeks going though my CDs and making MP3s sampled at a higher rate since I had the space. Yesterday I was up to 43 GB full and while adding a song to a playlist the player stopped working and reported a "Firmware Problem". I got out a pin and pressed the reset button, but it didn't help. I then spent all night on the web searching for some help. I was able to read up on how to get to a special menu to run a scan disk, but that didn't help either. I even downloaded the latest firmware from Creative's website, but again no luck. Today I went to the store where I purchased the player and was able to get a store credit. I wasn't about to ask for an exchange or deal with going through the warranty process. The only good news is that it failed early enough that I didn't have much trouble getting a store credit.
Positives: 60 GB of storage. Can be used as a hard drive. Can copy MP3s off the player.
Negatives: Somewhat large in size and of course the Firmware Problem
Overall: Don't take the chance that the player will fail after a few months of use. Also search the web for Creative Nomad Firmware Problem for more information.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: I just got this today and I will be shipping it back tomorrow. PLEASE READ: YOU CAN NOT CREATE YOUR OWN FOLDERS!!! ALL FILES ARE STORED IN ONE DIRECTORY! THAT IS REDICULOUS FOR A 60GB DEVICE.
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