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Summary: The all in one MP3 Player
Review: This player has so many features. You can download so many songs. This is a must buy. I had a rio 500 player and it only held 6 songs. The Nomad Jukebox is amazing! 6 Gig of hard drive! You can hold 100 hours of music! When I bought it I knew it was great. Every review I read said it was a must buy and a great mp3 player. TOP OF THE LINE. If you love music! buy it!PROS:Holds 6 gig of space, Multiple environments, preloaded with 200.0 mb of songs Cons:These features may overwhelm you at first! haha
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Summary: For those who are debating whether to buy this product...
Review: For those debating whether to buy this product, I'm writingthis review to *possibly* help you out. I've had this product forabout a month now, and overall I'm happy with it. Here are thegreat/good aspects of the product: - It works as advertised. I'veripped over 100 jazz CDS, and still have room for more. - The soundquality is fine. I've read complaints from others about soundquality, volume not being high enough, etc. I realize everyone hasdifferent standards, but I myself find the quality about the same asmy CD player and certainly better than standard MP3 players. And Iconsider myself relatively picky about sound quality. As forvolume, if I go beyond level 16 (and the highest volume control islevel 20) it hurts my ears, so the volume strength is certainly finefor me. (Note: get a good pair of headphones or use your favoritepair...as is usually the case, the headphones that come with the Nomadare pretty much garbage. Here are the 'drawbacks' or 'weak points'that Creative should address in the next version of the product - Mybiggest issue (and I think everyone is in agreement) is battery life.At BEST they last about 3.5 hours for me, though individual mileagewill vary. Yes, Creative does provide a 2nd set of batteries, but tome that's a sign that Creative knew this would be an issue and tookthe path of least resistance. - The software is 'OK'. It works,and can get you where you need to go, but Creative really didn't dotheir homework as far as learning what 'power users' would want out ofsoftware. For a beginner, it's fine. Beyond that, it's kludgy. Iuse another ripper that supports Variable Bit Recording (VBR), so Irip with my other software and just use the Creative software totransfer files from my computer to the Nomad Jukebox. - The userinterface for the Nomad itself is 'OK', but again kludgy and a tadslow. It's almost funny to tap the volume control and have to wait asecond or two before the Nomad responds. (It's amazing how you takethat kind of thing for granted on a normal walkman.) - The manual.I read it. I laughed. I tossed it aside. Enough said. - Thedesign of the AC adapter is strange. Again, a tad bigger and morekludgy than needs to be. I hope Creative addresses this in thefuture. - Along with the battery issue, here's the other one thatactually annoys me: the carrying case is another example where theyreally didn't keep the customer in mind. You can't comfortably fitthe 2nd pair of batteries in, nor can you fit in the AC adapter, etc.For the price tag ..., I really would have expected Creative to throwin a better carrying case. I'd even consider it OK if they'd offer aGOOD carrying case as an add-on accessory (and maybe they do, but I'vesearched their Web Site and can't find one.) Miscellaneous comments: - I've played with EAX, and, well, it's not for me. To me, it'smore 'gimmicky' than anythingelse. I truly don't care that I don'tuse it...but I do care that Creative should have paid more attentionto other details. Now, someone may read this and wonder why I gaveit 4 stars...bottom line, I love the sound quality and I love having atruckload of CDs in one little place. Yes there are weaknesses inthis product, but the core of the product works very very well. Ihope this helps.
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Summary: stop complaining
Review: people complain because they are prejudice about the company 6gb pre recored music and books up to 150 cd's great sound easy to use functions easy user friendly computer program
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Summary: A Must for Music Lovers
Review: I received the Nomad Jukebox as a gift, and I could not be more happy with it. As a music fan with an enormous CD collection, there is no mp3 player that has comparable storage. Although the display features might seem clunky at first, they become tolerable once you become used to the player. The one drawback? Battery life. However, Creative compensates for this by including two sets of rechargeable batteries. If you can afford to spend the money, this is a wonderful gadget.
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Summary: Good Product but...
Review: I have over a thousand MP3's, so the Nomad seemed like the logical choice as a portable MP3 player. I was also interested in using it with my home stereo system. It is a well thought out design, and the storage capacity is excellent. I have run into a few snags. During mp3 transfers, the data stream would suddenly end, the player would disappear, and I would get an error message saying the player wasn't attached to the system or was busy. I would have to reboot to get the player to be recognized again. I called tech support and they instructed me to download the new firmware and updated version of the play center. That helped a little bit, but I was still getting the same errors, just not as much. What I discovered was the transfer process works much more smoothly if you don't use a USB hub to plug the nomad into your computer and plug it directly into the one of motherboard USB slots. I have several USB devices running on my computer at this point, so I use a hub to connect them. Intel PC cameras need a dedicated port, and this is what clued me in, but otherwise, I would have never guessed this. I am basically happy with the software and hardware, but it was a serious test to get it to work correctly. Hopefully this review will help others to have less trouble using the product. I do recommend it. It is a wonderful device and has several great features. It is very functional and will provide hours (literally) of music entertainment
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Summary: In a league of its own.
Review: Forget about memory card-dependent MP3 players. This is a new generation, a quantum leap forward at a very reasonable price. It will hold *ALL* your music, not only in MP3 format, but in WMA format (this compression tech is superior to MP3 and will supplant it) as well. Downloading from your PC is a breeze with the USB connection, and the unit's controls make individual song search & access fairly simple. The size is fine (though clearly the Diamond Rio, et al, is a smaller pkg), about what a portable (Walkman-style) CD player measures. Battery life is okay, and headphones are marginal. Its one drawback is its moderate volume on playback; if you want to really hear the music on the subway, it may not rock your world.
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Summary: Overwhelming storage capacity makes the Jukebox a must
Review: The obvious plus for the Jukebox is its storage capacity. With almost 1200 songs, there's still around a gig left. And although it's not recommended, you can replace the hard drive (it's just a notebook HD) by following any of the guides published on the web. If you have any intention of storing more than an hour of music on a well built, well thought out portable unit, there is no other option. While I wouldn't recommend it for use while exercising (it weighs a good pound or so), the number of ports it has makes it rather versatile. There are stereo mini jacks for headphone-out, line-out (2 of them), and line-in (for digital recording). There's a power port (12V DC), the aforementioned USB port, and a curiously unused IR port in the front of the unit. If you need a port, it's there. This makes it easy to send audio to a receiver, or plug it into a car stereo. The first thing that I immediately noticed while driving was the contour of the Jukebox. Whether intentional or not, the bottom is curved just enough such that it can sit sideways on my leg without shifting or sliding. This means it doesn't have to sit on the seat beside me, or in and of the dashboard or front panel trays (although that's where it eventually ended it). After a while, the controls become fairly intuitive - even in the dark I was able to perform all of the functions of the Jukebox without taking my eyes of the road... much. As for the sound quality... well, the "EAX-enabled" headphones are awful. But aside from the glaring faults that are inherent in Frauenhofer's mp3 codec, the sound is great. I would recommend encoding classical music at 256 kbps, though, and I still have issues with anything that's been encoded by the included software... The only issue I have with the Jukebox is with the software that comes with it. It encodes and rips poorly and slowly, and the import function is horrible. Importing is done with either a standard file open dialog or by autoscanning. The PlayCenter does not support drag-and-drop importing, and does not have the handy 'Recurse Subdirectories' feature that WinAmp has. While this isn't a problem if all of your mp3s are in one directory, if you've got your music collection on a number of partitions of a 60 GB drive, it can take up to 1/2 hour just to scan them all, and the software does nothing to inform you of what's going on. Other than that, though, the software is decent. USB uploading is pretty fast - around 500 Kbps. (Still, uploadng 5.5 GB takes about 4 hours). PlayCenter handles a lot of internal jukebox functions, like deleting files, creating playlists, etc., and for those functions it works very well. Minor faults aside, this is an outstanding product. I'd probably give it 4.5 stars, if possible.
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Summary: VERSATILITY IS THE KEY
Review: This is not a flawless product. Batteries run for only 4 hours, it can't fit in your pocket, and, as of now, there is no support for transferring songs from the jukebox back to a PC. But, don't overlook the VERSATILITY aspect of this jukebox. Take this jukebox on the road (get a car adapter kit), take it to the skies via plane, take it to the gym (yes, I have jogged with this). Even better, plug it into your stereo at home (there will be remote-control support in the future). 150 CDs worth of songs fit into the jukebox. Do whatever you like with those songs. Categorize them by genre. Make as many playlists as you want. You'll be glad you bought it.
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Summary: State of the Art
Review: As a major music fan I've watched the advent of Mp3 technology with a keen interest. As we are all aware until now the storage capacity of the players available has been wholly inadequete for anything other than short term listening pleasure. In my job I do quite a bit of travel and spend a lot of hours in the office. The ability to tranport the favorite bits from my music collection with me is a Godsend. The 6 GB Nomad Jukebox was therfore a must-have product. I havn't been disappointed. The Playcentre 2 software makes ripping your cd's and transferring mp3 files a breeze, although it is annoying (but not surprising) that two-way transfer isn't possible. I find the player navigation really easy to use. I would suggest that some of the other reviewers havn't played around with their menus yet. Contrary to reports, there is a facility whereby the active queuelist can be randomly played. The stop key also acts as a pause button which is obviously useful if listening to audiobooks. The headphones look smart and produce a good sound. I would agree however that the EAX sound system is gimmicky and those with a keen ear may be disappointed. Despite my minor quibbles, I have to come back to the fact that on my system I currently have 1250 of my favorite songs with room for more. This sort of portability was a fantasy until this player came along. If you want your music on the move the positive points of the Nomad Jukebox more than outweigh the negatives. Nothing on the market at the moment can touch this product. Worth every cent!
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Summary: Chinese
Review: Could this MP3 player support Chinese MP3 files? or any kind of lanuages? I don't want to rename all my Chinese Mp3 songs to English. Is it auto charge the battery when I put rechargeable battery in and plug in the AC?
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