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Summary: Great -- if its works; purchase at your own risk
Review: The wide disparity in reviews illustrates that this is a great product -- if it works. Unfortunately, it quit working for me after the short 90-day warranty expired, as it apparently has for a number of others. The player would hang after a few minutes of playing. Creative tech support was worthless -- did little more than read the support faqs and put me through hours of clean-ups, reinstalling firmware, reformatting -- and finally advising me that the problem must be my MP3s. If you're lucky, like many of the reviewers, this unit is outstanding. If you're not, you'll end up spending many frustrating hours fiddling with this thing and ultimately you'll have an expensive paperweight. Like many other computer products, the Nomad Jukebox III isn't reliable enough for a consumer product.
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Summary: Nomad Jukebox III
Review: I'm thrilled with the Nomad Jukebox III. My only criticism is with the software. I had almost 1400 tracks stored on my computer, most of which had artist, album, genre, etc. and somehow in the transfer, one artist was substituted on about half of the transfers. Then when I did the audiosync after making endless corrections, I ended up with two copies of the song, one with the correct artist, one with the wrong one. Also, the Audio sync DOES NOT syncronize the Jukebox with your computer files. If you make a change, say change the artist, on the jukebox and then do Auto sync,or vice versa it doesn't just change the artist on your computer, it writes a whole new track with the new info, and leaves the old, incorrect info on another track. You end up with hundreds of duplicates after a whle, half correct, half wrong, grrrrrrrr. They should use the same type of syncronization as my palm pilot, there's no problem there. I agree, find some new software. But now, after many many hours of correcting files, I have huge playlists and lots of choices, including shuffle or random play, and repeat certain tracks. We go RV'ing and drive a lot. Now I can start a playlist and it will last all day. No more hunting for CD's while I drive!! Oh, one more thing, 20 Gigs may seem endless, but I filled 8 gigs the first day, so don't skimp and get a smaller one, you'll regret it.
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Summary: crash over and over
Review: Very unhappy. Requires lots of re-sets. always carry a paper clip to reset (I do!).The upgraded firmware seems to help, but does not solve completely. Creative still has some problems to figure out. Works fine between crashes.
Rating: 
Summary: Definitely 5 star...so far!
Review: Well I got my Nomad JB3 yesterday. I haven't received my FireWire card yet, so I was stuck with USB 1.1 speeds. After opening the box, which had that stupid sealed plastic. BTW, I think that stuff is dangerous & very sharp. Well I got the Nomad out & hooked up in minutes. I then played around for a few minutes and it worked well. Then I went to nomadworld.com & got all the latest drivers and firmware upgrades. I knew some of the issues people reported were fixed in these, so I went right there. I plopped about 10 CDs in the Nomad with no problem. I have some issues with the software, but then again I haven't followed the tutorial completely. I just wanted to start. And it seems very easy. Definitely worth the price & time you will put into it! And as for the USB speeds, it really isn't that slow, because I was only doing 1 CD at a time. But that won't matter once I get the FireWire adapter.
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Summary: Finally, the search is over
Review: I spend a year compiling info on mp3 hard drive players. Magazines, cnet, reviews......ect. I have had the Nomad for 2 weeks now. I can happy say it was a good choice. The software is easy, especially when it comes to rip cds. I am still playing with the many options. So far nothing to complain about.
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Summary: Spend 10 mins on instructions AND READ THIS REVEIW
Review: A HONEST REVIEW PROS AND CONSI partly bought this player because my cd draw broke on my house stereo, and the though of having to just plug this into it to get all my songs was a good idea. This player does work on my stereo but while using the AUX (analoge) lead it only plays thu one speaker...there is a digital option but my stereo doesnt allow that...seein as the MP3's are in stereo format certain instuments, backing vocals, drum beats which would of come from the other speaker arent heard at all. So check your stereo will work with this player before you buy. WHICH IS WHAT I SHOULD OF DONE! But now iv got it and cant take it back so heres a review of the product. First off iv only had this product a week...alot of the negitive reviews have been because the player has completly died. SO I WRITE THIS AS MINE (still) WORKS. OTHER negative comments have been about the lack of features such as no random play or bass boost. This player DOES have random play(as well as repeat, play all play one...)Its selectable from "play mode" options when your songs have been added to the current playlist. Although you would think the "play mode" options would be available when just clickin play on any album. SO IGNORE ALL BAD REVEIWS THAT BLAME NO REPEAT FUNCTIONS, IT IS THERE. One thing that does slighty bother me is the EAX this is the sound feature that lets u listen to ur music in the style of Disco, Jazz, Pop, Arthouse... aswell as from your Lounge, Bathroom, Thearte, Small room... and many more BS places. This IS a con each settin adds a slighty different echo to your music.
And having names such as the ones above as well as car, plane, bus it isnt very helpful if you are looking to make the bass guitars louder basically all these options are usless. A bass boost button is all that was needed (and most probably wanted by customers) This is all very well you can simply turn EAX off but the lack of a simple 3 level BASS BUTTON lets the player down.
The headphones are big and as they go on via your neck if u lean back or rest ur head on anything like a seat head rest or pillow the headphones WILL come off. All leads to connect to stereos have to be bought seprately and the headphones dont have a controller on them. You do get a remote control that allows you to play stop skip tracks that are on you current playlist when hooked up to the house stereo this is a good feature. The size of the disk drive is ridiculasly large 8000 songs the box claims and by the amount of songs to space used by me 8000 doesnt seem like an exaduration. overall a first class personnal stereo but if you are buyin it to use in home then make sure its fully compatable.
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Summary: I've had it for eight months now, and I love it!
Review: I have had this player for quite a while now and I love it! I have had only a few problems with it, but nothing that a good firmware update or software patch couldn't fix. So many of the features in the JB3 are truely unriveled(outside of the Creative Company), such as the EAX, the optical/line-in, and so many others that I'm forgetting about. I really don't know what's up with all of these people having so many problems with the player and the software. I guess my take on the whole thing is that if you're not a complete electronics retard (like my mom, who couldn't operate a household stereo if her life depended on it) then you should be just fine. The player comes with decent firmware, but new and awesome firmware is available with no cost, just go to www.....com and download new firmware or software patches that fix just about any problem that you might have with the player or software. Also, I guess, (by reading all of the reviews), that it wounldn't hurt to have a decently new computer too. I love my player and I have no regrets, and I totally got my money's worth.
--Thanks,
Tommy Taylor
Rating:
Summary: Fantastic player, so-so software
Review: Pros:
1.The battery charges fast and lasts long (90 min charge/9 hour use with one batt. in the player, it holds two but I haven't bought the extra one yet)
2. You can shake the hell out of it and it wont skip.
3. IT HOLDS A LOT OF MUSIC. I have 2900+ songs on it, many of them 20+ minute long live jams, all ripped at cd quality, and I still have 8GB free on the player.
4. Firewire transfer is superfast! I sent 250 songs to the player in about 3 minutes.
5. Ability to make playlists on the fly is great. You can throw together a mix with as many songs as you want in no time. Plus it DOES allow random play of albums, playlists or the whole player no matter what other reviewers say (I have it playing on random as I write this). Cons:
1. Size. Though it is smaller than any CD player ever made, it is also larger than most other 20GB MP3 players. My friend who has an Ipod makes fun of the size of this player but in return I make fun of the size of his wallet since he paid almost twice as much as me for a player with fewer features.
2. The software which is good when it works, DOES NOT WORK AT ALL on my desktop (Windows ME). It worked fine for about a week and then just crashed one day. Now the program freezes everytime I start it; even after I uninstalled it and put it back on it won't start. To be fair I haven't called Creative about the problem yet as the program works just fine on my laptop (Windows XP).
3. The warranty is short (90 Days). ... All in all, I love this player and highly recommend it...
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Summary: I'm SO happy with this...
Review: I've had the Nomad Jukebox III for 5 months now. I love it. No problems with it. It installed and ran easily - I was using it within minutes. Lots of storage, interface took some getting used to, sound quality is great, battery life is good...(the additional battery pack is extremely helpful - I find I only charge every 10-14 days) It's quite durable - In fact, several months ago, I tripped on a sidewalk and my precious Jukebox crashed and went skidding (face down) across the road! I thought for sure this would be the end of it. There were a couple of ugly scratches on it, but it started right up and there hasn't been any side effects. I do have one complaint: you can't search for a song in a playlist while it's playing. Hitting the search button brings you back to the main "music library" search. This is a great MP3 player if you're looking for lots of storage. I can't recommend it enough. This was my first MP3 player, and it's been a great experience.
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Summary: Cool Player/Recorder But It does Freeze Up!
Review: First and foremost,
People, please take some time with this item before you
review what it has and what it doesn't! It has shuffle/
random play, and if you download the current firmware
1.32.02, it has a user's EQ under advanced EAX. Curiously
though, if you use random play it frequently freezes up
if you press forward >>) which is not good. There is a
clearly marked hole for the user to put a paper clip through
to reset the unit. It's not hard or unreachable! No need to
take out the battery. The nomad is bulky but not necessarily
heavier than carrying a cd player. I have ripped about 12 gig
using the creative play center and have had no problem but I
also have notmad explorer and will experiment with it soon.
All in all I may buy another 40 gig nomad soon. I would prefer
a unit with no gliches but life has GLICHES!
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