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Summary: A "expensive" paper weight!
Review: Yes..don't get me wrong, I was so excited to get my first MP3 player. When I finally did I spent all my free time compiling albums upon album.. Only thing is, 2 gigs out of 20 later and after two week and only a few hours a day my Nomad decided to just keel over and die like it had sudden infant death syndrome. I barely got 2 gigs into it and listened to it about 4 times. This seems to be a common problem and Creative could care less. Most people find these problems a little after 3 months...and oh what a surprise...whats is creative warrenty for there Nomad? 90 days? well... you put two and two together, then think twice about buying anything from a company like this... Personally, when I get mine fixed and sell it, I'll do the smart thing, I'll wait for Phillips or Sony to come out with one. If that one breaks, at least I'll have a billion customer support lines and people to complain to if something happens to it. I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER CREATIVE so called PRODUCT again! ...
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Summary: Very Good Product from a Good Company
Review: This is my third nomad product. I bought the original nomad, and the original jukebox shortly after it came out with its then astonishing 6 gig drive. I gave the original jukebox 5 stars for easily being the best on the market. (It has proven reliable too, as I still have and use it with a hard drive upgraded to 30 gigs). I like the new jukebox III and, in the version I have, its 40 gig hard drive, but it no longer is clearly head and shoulders above the competition and has some minor difficulties, so I now give it four and one half stars, which, in light of some of the partisan one star reviews, I rounded up.The decreased size and weight of the new player is a definite plus because I can now easily slip the player into a coat pocket, although there now are even smaller hard drive players on the market (including the Zen player that is also made by Creative Labs). I have a large CD collection and numerous audiobooks, so I do need more than 20 gigs, and that is not an option with other hard drive players. Still, I was tempted to wait for a smaller player with a larger drive. The sound quality is excellent. Until DVD audio becomes compact and portable en masse, this is it. I do not think anything else on the market meets it. Using high bit rate recordings, I can plug the player in to a quality stereo without being overly distracted by the drop in quality from my much more expensive CD player. (A jack is needed and not supplied). I have not used it yet, and may never, but the player has the ability to record directly from the optical line output of other audio equipment such as a CD player. The player produces significantly more volume than the original jukebox. Others complain of the lack of high volume, as I did with the original, but with a good pair of headphones I can absolutely drown out all noise I have encountered thus far. I wonder whether the complaints are made by those who have not yet learned how to use the EAX software, which has settings for various levels of environmental noise. Perhaps this is also more of an issue for those who listen to more rock than I do. Fast transfers with the firewire and the excellent battery life of a lithium ion battery are the other major upgrades. (USB and firewire cables are included). With the supplied battery plus an after market battery, the player is good for an entire day or, even most of a weekend. As others have noted, Creative ships the player with a stylish but inadequate set of headphones, and this time no case is supplied, though such accessories as cases, adapters to car stereos, and an extra battery are available online. The software has some drawbacks, which hopefully Creative will fix. (The player is upgradeable). I became quite proficient using the latest releases of software for the old jukebox. I knew how to find songs and navigate the player database with speed and ease. However, the latest software is much slower for two reasons. One is the inability to see all albums by an artist. I must have a dozen versions of some jazz songs by various artists, and even have numerous versions of the same song by the same artist, so the former software allowed me to select the right song by going to the artist and viewing all the CDs by that artist. Now, I am limited to looking for the song title from among all songs or all songs by an artist without division into the CDs they originate from. This is also slow because, for example, I have nearly two hundred Miles Davis songs to sort through. The player does have a useful alphabetical search function, but it is certainly not quicker than navigating on my old player, and it does not address all the sources of slowness such as the problem of multiple versions of a song by the same artist. Tag carefully. You will need to. The other software slow down is the inability to add songs, remove songs, and perform other functions with single pressings of a button. Now, one must press a button and select from a menu. It is helpful that the menu defaults to the last item chosen from the menu, such as "add song to playlist", but even this is two button pushes and I'm sometimes both adding and deleting things at the same times, as well as checking versions of songs. However, there are also some noteworthy software improvements, such as the ability to delete songs from the database without erasing the current playlist. The player boots up much more rapidly, and above all, the handy feature of all features is the ability to synchronize the content of the player to a computer, a computer to a player, or selected directories to the player. Also, in my opinion, the older EAX environmental effects software was cheesy. The new EAX software includes the same ability to imitate various sounds like concert halls, jazz clubs, and living rooms, but also has some much more meaningful capacities as well as equalization capacities. As for the software that resides on the computer, I still use MusicMatch because I believe it rips better mp3s. However, the Creative software is fine for such management functions as renaming albums and songs on either the player or the computer.
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Summary: This thing rocks
Review: I've been wanting one of these for a long and I finaly got one on x-mas. Since then I've put about 40 cds on it and i still have about 17,000 MB of storage left. Plus It doesnt take batteries. It comes with 1 lion battery and if you want another its $. I have put some aftermarket things on it like a leather case and a new faceplate. which you can get off Creativelabs.com. I highly dought that I will ever get this thig packed full of MP3s. It has a realy easy to use menu with hella options and the grapgic equelizer rocks. you can hook it up in your car and get crystal clear sound anywhere. The headphones that came with it are great I thought they would be cheap but they rock. You can get a nice 11 hours of playtime and it only takes 4 hours to charge. If your thinking about buying this DO IT it is so worth itif you have $ layin around. I can't see how i can live without it i never have to carry around CD's anymore and this thing is a high quality durable custimizeable machine thats on a Godly level.
Rating: 
Summary: somewhat deciving
Review: over all this nomad is a great little toy. how ever there are some let downs. 1) for this amount of money you would think there would be a case for it. 2) it's more than three easy steps to get started as the intro states, more like 6 but we wont get picky. 3) it is made for XP windows but there are a few bugs that need to be worked out after installing the software.
real nice toy, good sound, lots of fun, but creative should give up the assories that should get for the price.
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Summary: Not great
Review: This thing is supposed to sound great. Well, first of all, it comes with what I consider pieces of junk for headphones. Try out the Radio Shack Titanium magnet portable headphones (the best portable headphones I have ever heard) and you'll see what I mean. Also, this unit has NO volume. It is adequate for in the home, but if you were on a plane or a bus, it could easily be overpowered. I have owned the Iomega Hip Zip player which blows this one out of the water. The Iomega is so loud, it rivals a home stereo. The only advantage is storage space for the Creative Jukebox. I returned it in 24 hours. It is great for a music junkie, but if you want the best sounding unit out there, shop around. I'll stick with my Iomega player.
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Summary: Great idea, poor quality
Review: The idea is great: a huge harddrive with just enough silicon on board to run a display, feed headphones, and interface to your computer. It should mean virtually unlimited music wherever you go, with only a very lightweight CD-sized package to carry. Unfortunately, the software is squirrely and difficult to use. Furthermore, my huge harddrive crashed six months after I got the unit. I still haven't figured out how to get it fixed. I think I'll wait for a high quality unit that successfully implements this great idea.
Rating: 
Summary: great sound
Review: this is a great player easy to use and the sound is good
i have the 150 dollar bose head phones to go with it.
the only thing i don't like about the player is it doesn't support usb 2.0 i have so many porno from my friends and i load divx movies on it and bring it back to my own computer, much better than asking my friends to burn me cds
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Summary: would not work with MusicMatch Jukebox; nonstandard charger
Review: It is nice to have 20 GB of music and 22 hours of battery life (with an optional 2nd battery). But I couldn't get the jukebox to work with MusicMatch Jukebox and therefore was forced to used Creative's extremely painful software. More painful was losing the AC adaptor. It is a 5V adaptor with a non-standard connector. So you can't go into Radio Shack and get a replacement.
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Summary: Dynamite
Review: If you love music on the go and/or for keepsake purposes, editing etc..but especially for partying..this contraption is great!! With headphones or a great set of computer speakers, sounds great and VERY user friendly!!
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Summary: Get an iPod instead
Review: I got one of these last Spring, and it died just as the warranty expired. Even when it was running, it was not that impressive. It frequently froze up and needed resetting, skipped bits of songs, and I won't even begin with the problems I had with the software. It was a total waste of money, and if I ever get one again, I'm saving for an ipod, now that they are windows friendly.
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