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Summary: Crashes all the time
Review: I really love this player except that it crashes all the time. It was bought for me as a Christmas gift so that I could replace my cassette walkman. I usually walk about 3 miles a day and I barely ever complete my walk without having to reset it. Today I had to reset it 5 times in less than an hour! That is not too good aerobically!! Besides that, I love the amount of music it holds and the sound is great. For some reason it never crashes when it is on my desk or in my car.........only when I walk with it. Its not because of motion or temperature and now I'm wondering if its due to some magnetic field although that doesn't explain the fact that it only has trouble when I walk with it. Also, I had to buy a case for it because the one it comes with is useless. Not even a hole for the headphone jack and no belt attachment.
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Summary: Maybe I got a lemon??
Review: My Dad got this for me during christmas and I thought this was a nice MP3 player. Unfortunately, it wasn't as good as i thought, one thing i dislike about this product is that it kept on crashing my computer whenever i tried to transfer MP3 music file to the jukebox. Also, it can get really hot, I meant REALLY HOT! i thought the jukebox was going to explode! Maybe i got a lemon but the good thing was that my dad returned for a refund after i had it for two weeks.
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Summary: nice, huge, but needs some work
Review: this thing is huge, i know ppl who have lots of mp3's but for ppl like me, who only have a gig or so, this is not nessicary. it's fun to play with and have, but...there are many buts.-there is a problem with the transfer software, most songs go onto the player fine, but some don't go on at all or are put on with gaps in them -it's a hard drive- which means that a large enough shock will kill it. i don't feel comfotable with it because i am afriad i will kill it. -it's big. no bones about it, it's the size of a gen 1 portable cd player, but heavier. - no am/fm tuner in my opinion, when considering the price tag, i think that you might be better off buying a regular nomad and getting lots of memory for it. still, for people who have lots of mp3s and want selection, this is great. you could run a party off it if you wanted to. however, while it is technically sound (except for the transfer problem, which will probably be corrected by firmware updates) and lots of fun, for me it is too big and makes me feel too selfconcious.
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Summary: Can't recommend this item
Review: While sound quality and storage capacity are quite nice, the abysmally poor interface makes this player next to useless. The keyword when using the buttons is slow! Even something simple like changing the volume to the headphones shows quite a lag, and isn't always available. Scrolling through your playlist is slow, everything is frustratingly slow. Add to that the huge number of things you can't do, and features you'd expect to be there but aren't (like delete a single track from the active queue, or play in shuffle mode) and my impulse is to junk the thing. The PC-based software for managing your playlists is also very poor, nonintuitive, and lacking in a great many simple features that would make it a lot easier to use. I wish I had the room and time to provide a complete list. On the plus side, the sound quality is very good, storage space is ample, and the device itself has a nice look, but I was very disappointed with this purchase.
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Summary: Cost/Value Off the Charts
Review: Anyone who is a music love will adore this item. Your whole CD library (I have 125 Albums Loaded in Mine) in a portable CD sized player. It takes moments to "rip" and album. I think one of the best features is the "CDDB". When you load a CD into your computer to record the tracks from an album that you like...the computer automatically goes to a website, downloads and matches all of the titles of the tracks on your CD, the CD title and the CD genre. These are recorded in your Nomad when you record the songs...so you have a full readable library of the 1200 tracks( in my case) that you have in the machine. Anyone who complains about anything with this gadget....needs to take a rest for a few days. The Value of this item versus its cost is extremely high.
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Summary: Worth Every Penny
Review: I used to cart piles of CDs back and forth to work. No longer - this is a wonderful device. It does have its occasional glitches, and a few times it has locked up so that I had to turn it off to reset it. But I now carry it everywhere and can't imagine life without it. A recent upgrade allows music to be uploaded from the player to the computer, so you no longer have to store music on your hard drive. In addition, if you create wma files rather than mp3 files (and you can download software to perform this conversion), you can store much more music than if you store mp3s.
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Summary: A Few Drawbacks, but Definitely Worth It
Review: If you are wondering if it is worth the money, it is. There are a few negative aspects, such as battery life and headphone output. The batteries don't even last 4 hours like expected, so I bought an extra set of the Kodak rechargables. The headphones are quiet, but I experimented and it's like that with your average pair. So unless you have extremely good hearing or loud phones you can't hear with background noise. What everyone says about the extreme storage is true. It's awesome to be able to carry hundreds of songs wherever you go. And the company did put out a software upgrade for the machine, so not being able to rewind/fastforward or download songs to your computer from the nomad is no longer a problem. I think that in the future they will make a remote control available, hopefully not very expensive. The car adapter is still in the makings.
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Summary: A new age of portable audio
Review: Well Santa gave me this for Xmas and I've already have over 450 tracks loaded. I really, really love this thing. It and its ilk represent a great leap forward in portable audio. The Good
- 6GB of MP3
- Fast transfer
- Great Sound (once you get a decent pair of headphones)
- I think the Playcenter software is ok; it does pretty much everything I want.
- EQ Features are great
- Looks cool (The is nice silver, the blue is not so good. No wonder some places charge more for the silver)
- Backlit display (Take that PJB100!)
- Upgradeable firmware
The Not-So-Good
- You have to (or should) upgrade the firmware first thing (can it be really be a mass market product if you have to upgrade it the moment you open the box?)
- Long boot time: It can take over (some people say a LOT over) 30 seconds for it boot up
- The case is almost worthless. Would it KILL Creative to give a case that allows you access to the player controls?
- It's a little buggy. Hopefully future firmware upgrades will cure this.
- Poor battery time
- Car power adapter not included nor offered by Creative
- To large to use exercising
- Included headphones are only useful in that they provide an incentive to buy a good pair.
Not perfect but pretty darn good.
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Summary: What's not to like?
Review: Simply put, there is almost nothing negative to say about this player. I have had it for 2 months, and frankly can't remember how I lived without it. I had been thinking about purchasing an mp3 player for a long time, but all I saw was little itty-bitty 32- or 64-meg players. Now, I have a CD-writer; if I wanted an hours worth of music, I would just make my own CDs, thank you very much. Then I stumbled upon the Jukebox. "Six gig? That can't be right." Yep, it is. Currently I have 1800 songs on it (recorded at 64kbps), with rooom for probably another 1000 or so. There are a lot of other good reviews on this site, so I'll just mention a couple of minor points. First, yes there IS a random function (it's accessed in a strange place, from the song detail screen, but it IS there). Also, this is one of the few downsides of the player, as I have noticed it has trouble randomizing a LARGE, i.e. over 1200 song, queue. It has a tendency to only play songs from the first half of the queue. But, it's really not difficult to keep your playlists to under 1200 songs. ;) Also, it can be difficult to play that one song that is itching at the back of your mind; the interface is simple enough, but it just takes a while to scroll through the 120 artists or 200 albums to find a single song. These are extremely minor quibbles however, and this player is easily the best ... I have ever spent.
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Summary: Speechless
Review: I just got this item 6 hours ago and I am already blown away. I traded in my ridiculously featureless Philips Expanium for this thing (and an additional $200 :)) and couldn't be happier with the decision. Seriously, after six hours I have the thing upgraded with the latest firmware and have already filled it 1/3 of the way with some of my favorite CDs. I've been using WMA format, since I can't get the files back off the unit, the extra compression pays off. Navigating menus is a breeze and the bundled software is incredibly intuitive. Here are the negative points: 1. No shuffle options (hopefully changed in future firmware?) 2. Battery life is rumored to be short (haven't tried them yet) The positives are so numerous, I can't list them. I'm going to run right out tomorrow and pick up a 12V power supply for my car and then I'll be able to have about 100 of my favorite albums with me anywhere I go. Well, so much for being speechless...
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