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Summary: Great Player! Just read the instructions.
Review: The player is great. I've had it for 2 months. I use it with my Dell laptop and both of them are having no problem swapping songs. I use Windows Media and Music Match to put songs on the Dell first then swap. I feel this is the fastest way. With USB cable, songs are placed on the player in seconds. I think the headphones work great. People around me can hear exactly what song I'm listening too. The EAX does allow you to make your own bass and treble level when you select the Custom EQ selection. It would be great if they had a preset for extra bass or something else but you can't have everything. It does have a shuffle setting and a shuffle repeat setting so you can listen to your list over and over. This is a great player if you read the instructions on how to use it.
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Summary: Features don't work, have fun downloading updates
Review: 1st and foremost: Creative's tech support .... After 6 times contacting them, I received the same response and did exactly what they told me to do. I'm rather computer literate and have never had a problem with any computers/software/periphals like this .... I'm sure it will be nice if I ever get it to work, but after spending nearly 5 hours uninstalling and reinstalling, downloading and installing updates, the stupid thing still doesn't work right. Be on the lookout, I'll be selling it on Ebay, NR.
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Summary: Not durable.
Review: Don't even look to hard at this thing or it will break. And creative labs doesn't care.... they only have a 3 month warrentee.
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Summary: Good and Bad
Review: On the good side, it does sound good. I haven't put enough into it to flex it's capacity, but time will tell.On the Bad side (this is why I wrote the review): 1. They DESPERATELY need a shuffle or random play feature. I am getting tired of hear tunes in the same order. 2. I could not get the CDDB to work with the Playcenter software. I click on it and nothing happens. I spent several weeks trading e-mails with Creative Labs. They ignored my information and sent me canned responses that had nothing to do with my symptoms. They finally won the battle of wills and I am typing in all my track info. I am a manager of an IT support staff and I would advise Creative Labs to review their procedures and trim the problem managers or face a severe loss of market share. Be warned if you try to use their support. It is way below what I expect of a company like this.
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Summary: A Perfect MP3 Playet
Review: I've had this mp3 player for over three months and I still can't find anything bad about it! For those who don't know, 20 Gigabytes is an endless amount of space, if you can fill it up I'm quite impressed. The player's software is incredibly easy to use and can be mastered in under ten minutes, and the optional Firewire transfers are lightning fast. I usually transfers two songs per second when using Firewire, and one song every two seconds with the USB. I've heard people say that it's too big and heavy, but who can complain about something that's two-thirds the size of a CD-Player and will hold your entire music collection? The rechargeable batteries are great, at eleven hours each, I highly recommend buying the extra battery for a total of 22 hours of usage, they charge up reasonably fast as well. If you're thinking of buying an mp3 player, why spend a hundred dollars more for an iPod that holds half the music? Get a Nomad 3!!
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Summary: Piece of [junk]
Review: The software stinks. The player hangs all the time. The reset is buried so deep you need a three foot long needle to get to it, and you do need to get to it all the time. I must say even with a real positive attitude and a willingness to stick it out and try new firmware upgrades, cleanups, reloads of firmware, reformatting and reloading music, what a huge waste of time.
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Summary: An awesome player.
Review: Most of the quirks or shortcomings noted in the negative reviews are actually not problems, if you just read the manual. For example, some people have written that the player "has EQ presets but no user-customizable EQ". Incorrect. You can adjust a graphic equalizer to your liking, quite easily. A few user reviews here state that if you search by artist, you can't see the various albums by that artist, just all the tracks. This is true in the initial firmware that comes preloaded on the player. But a free download from Creative's website fixes this problem. So now, when you pick "U2," you get YOUR CHOICE of a list of the albums by U2 that are on your player OR a list of all the tracks by U2 on your player. General comments about this player: I knew nothing about MP3s before getting this player. Within 20 minutes of opening the box, I was ripping and transferring music from my CD collection to the player. I found the interface very easy to learn, very intuitive (though doing some things takes a few more steps than I'd like). The sound quality is amazing, whether through good headphones or plugged into an expensive stereo. I wish it had USB 2.0, but USB 1.1 is just fine. The bottleneck in getting CDs onto the player is NOT the USB 1.1 interface, but the time it takes to rip and encode tracks from CDs into MP3 files. So don't let the lack of USB 2.0 stop you. Yes, I wish the player was a bit smaller and lighter. (I have the 2nd battery installed, which adds an ounce or so to the weight). But to get a smaller/lighter machine, you'd have to make sacrifices. The Ipod costs twice as much and most reviews say doesn't sound quite as good as Creative Jukeboxes. The Creative Jukebox Zen is smaller and doesn't cost much more, but its battery is NOT REPLACEABLE, not even by Creative's own factory service. So, when the battery dies, your Zen is essentially worthless (this is what a Creative Labs tech support guy reluctantly told me over the phone.) (update: More recently, another Creative tech support person told me that they do have the ability to replace the Zen's internal battery when it dies - for a hefty charge, of course. I do not know which tech support person is correct, and I would rather not take any chances!) If you buy the Creative Jukebox 3, don't waste your money on the "home kit." The docking station it includes does not add much functionality (actually, none), and DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CABLE YOU'LL NEED TO PLUG IT INTO YOUR HOME STEREO!!! The wireless remote has only a few functions. You CANNOT use it to select albums or tracks that you have not previously added to the "now playing" list.
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Summary: Great MP3 Player!!!!
Review: This My first MP3 player and I have had nothing BUT a great time with it. Super fast with the firewire connection (Also took it to a friend's and used the USB and was very fast also). VERY easy to use software (If You know anything about media player this is a snap). I was a little leary at first because of some of the negitive reviews. Some of the things complained about was buggy software slowing down their system (I have an older system and it has been a breeze). The player locking up during transfer (Not a single problem here). The headphones ARE NOT top notch but are not horriable. There also is custom EQ setting in the EAX menu (I notice alot of people having a problem with that). There is one at the bottom of the list. It DOES have random, repeat, etc...I don't know how people missed these things. Another thing is the hard drive crashing. My advice is if you are going to shell out 300 bucks shell out a little extra and get the extended warenty. All in all for the price and features and great sound You can't beat it! There are lemons with everything... But don't let the bad reviews scare You off. GREAT PRODUCT!!
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Summary: planned obsolescence?
Review: I purchased this item for my teenaged son for the holidays. He used it for exactly two months, and since it was his most prized possession he was very careful with it. By yesterday, January 31st, the power button (to turn it off and on) broke and will no longer do anything but shakily move up and down when you press it. Unfortunately, I ordered it well in advance of Christmas so the warrenty (90 days only) expired a month ago. I should have known better than to purchase an expensive electronics item that only came with a 3 month warranty. While it worked it was great. But it has cost me $150.00 a month for my son to listen to music and now it is useless. I suggest you wait until Creative offers a better warranty and stands behind its products before purchasing this. Everyone who has been shafted should complain to Creative. Maybe eventually they will listen. Shame on Creative for not caring more about its customers.
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Summary: I ran out of CD's
Review: I decided on the Creative for the features it offered. More than any other I looked at, and for a better price. I was drawn to it's ability to speed up or slow down tracks without distorting the pitch of the song. I play drums and keyboard, and it's a great feature to be able to slow things down to see how "they" actually played it. Very cool ! I also like that you can record live from a microphone or other sources. But the best and the worst part of the thing is that you can organize and customize your music CD's in many ways. You are able to rename song titles, album names, artists and genres to suit your needs. The major problem I found with this was a software/firmware flaw that took me THREE very long conversations with the Creative Tech Support folks... both via email and by long distance phone calls. The bug was that if you changed the name of the album (CD) it changed the play order so your CD's would play in reverse order. Talk about stupid. Now after hours and hours of removing and reloading my CDs into the player, it works as it said it would. So...be warned, if you buy this product: Before you rip your entire colection of CDs (which I ran out of CD's long before the unit was even HALF filled) try a couple... play with the CD names and tracks and genre... Organize a few CD's and make sure they are playing how they're supposed to... THEN you can rip the rest. To be sure.. check the website and make sure you have the most current driver and firmware installed. THIS is what solved the problem. Overall, I would highly recommend it. I can take my entire collection of music with me anywhere and play anything I want at any time. Now my CD collection has become very organized and archived... i.e. I never touch them!
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