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Summary: Easy to use, upgradable and cost-efficient!
Review: This thing is the greatest ... you won't regret buying one. And, about the inability to play this in your car, I went to Radio Shack and picked up a Car Adapter Kit ... with cd/cassette adapter AND a cigarette lighter power adapter. I can play my songs wherever I go. Do the math ... for the money, it's the most cost-efficient mp3 player you can buy.
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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: The best for now, but not worth buying.
Review: The Nomad Jukebox is SDMI compliant. That is a bad thing, because it means that MP3s uploaded onto the player cannot be downloaded back to your computer. I think once people realize this MAJOR flaw, the returns will flood in. Hopefully next time around, creative will pay more attention to the needs of its customers instead of the industry. Download capability, more battery life, forward/"rewind" capability, plug-ins (I cant listen to mp3s without the winamp fader plug in), these are not too much to ask for a ... player. If you need a multi-gig player today, you don't have a choice besides the big, flawed Jukebox. I for one will wait for the avalanche of multi-gig players just around the corner...
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Summary: A Great MP3 Player With a Few Glitches
Review: Amazon has a great deal on this player. Almost all other places charge $700 for it. Get it here. As others have said the Jukebox does have its flaws. The instruction manual is horrendous. I've never seen a worse manual and I hope I never see another like it again. Charging the batteries up for the Jukebox is a royal pain since after the batteries are at 100% it will then start draining them for another charge. Speaking about battries be VERY careful when inserting them. The polarites (where the positve and negative go) are very weird so use caution. I also have a great deal of problems putting WAV's onto the player. I have to convert most of them to MP3's first and then play them or else I get goobldy gook. However, the Jukebox is the biggest MP3 player available. Navigation is remarkably easy (turn off Novice mode the second you get it). The USB connection works super fast and an average MP3 will be on the player in less then 4 seconds. The bundled software for PC is excellent and is also very useful just for ripping MP3's.
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Summary: This is perfection (or almost)
Review: This is the coolest piece of equipment that I have bought so far. It stores all my MP3s easily, and I still have a gigabyte left without having deleted any of the music that came with it. It was cool seeing that my nomad JB came with lot's of different types of music from asian pop to spoken books (frankenstein and Robinson Crusoe). The menu is really set up perfectly. I can get to any of my hundred of songs quickly, of course I spent time setting all the info properly (title / artist / album / genre), but now, all of my mp3s are perfectly sorted in portable mp3 player. Also, there are really cool features like playback speed, enviromental settings, and other stuff. The uploading is really fast (and a good thing to, with so much to put on) There is only one small drawback that I can think of. The batterie life is way to short (they claim that it is 4 hours long). It is a good thing that they provide 2 sets of 4 batteries, so that I can at least have bothe sets fully charged and with me for long trips. Carl
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Summary: Very impressive, but.......
Review: This thing is quite good but is lacking in the audio output department. Let me explain; While it seems to do everything very well,it does not have a lot of OMPHhh as far as the volume control is concerned. According to the specs, the Nomad Jukebox is supposed to put out a 100 mw signal; my Sony Discman's 30 mw signal will just about deafen me, the Jukebox won't even come close, even though it's rated output is over three times higher. If it wasn't for that one item, I would have given it a perfect five.:')
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Summary: Cool NEW product
Review: Alright, what everyone is saying is true, the ability to take 150 CDs worth of music is very cool. Unfortunately I fell into the NEW product syndrome. Because it's so new, if you have any problems there is no help for it. During the software installation, the software was not able to add an entry to the registry (mediaman.reg) which prevented it from working. A call to Creative Tech Support came back with the "re-load" Windows answer. I laughed and loaded the software on another machine and copied the registry setting over (4 hours later). After 4 hours, I assure you I have the coolest MP3 player on the face of the planet and would not give it up for anything. Moral of the story: The Jukebox is new and if it all goes right you will be VERY happy, if not you may have to wait for happiness and be left wondering why you spent $450 on this 3 pound paperweight.
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Summary: Can you handle it?
Review: This is the best digital music player available and probably will be the best for some time now. There is nothing else that can play MP3 files that holds six gigs of music except for the way overpriced HanGo Personal Jukebox. This not only has six gigs of music storage, there are going to be codec updates in the future so you can play liquid audio, WMA and other file types. Balls-on accurate playback with a 3-band equalizer make the sound easily customizable. The screen even lets you navigate through your files very easily. If you want an MP3 player, you would be a fool to get anything less!
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Summary: Disapointment in a box
Review: First off, this product does NOT support the WMA format (yet) nor is it SDMI compliant (yet). I spent some time badgering the Creative Labs folks for any updates they might have kicking around in the labs for WMA support and was basically told to "go away". The short battery life and klunky interface make this a poor choice for a media player. The capacity is great, but that's about it. Bottom line: Not ready for prime time. ...
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Summary: An almost perfectly created Device
Review: I have only had this for 10 days but the performance of this device is phenomenal. It stores 6 GB of music with intuitive navigation of its various screens and the 20 hours of preloaded music allow easy appreciation of its great features and a great chance to play with its bells and whistles before I ripped my own music. Additional CD's ripped and transferred to it sound just as great (ripped at 128 kb). The Play Center 2 Software allows easy transfer from the CD or downloaded from the internet and can be transferred to either your music Library on the Hard Drive, the Jukebox, or some destination on MY Computer. The biggest challenge with Play Center 2 is managing all those windows of track information. Ripping and transferring to the Jukebox takes 10 -15 minutes per CD. It comes with 2 sets of Nickel-Metal Hydride rechargable batteries, good-sounding Creative back headphones, an AC Adapter-Charger and a USB Cable. I like the fact that you can also record by microphone or by jack from an external analog source in wave format to be converted by computer into MP3 and uploaded back to the Jukebox. Unlike some MP3 Players, the volume at the maximum is more than sufficient. I love the EAX effects that simulate Concert Hall or other environments controlled by whatever percentage you choose. The ability to upgrade will allow support for the infrared slot and other future music formats. On the downside, the weight is heavier than that of a CD player and it is not suitable for jogging in spite of the 5 minute buffer. A car kit would be nice but is not yet available. In spite of these few drawbacks, I really love it and it easily beats the few portable Jukeboxes before it. With more than 150 CD's my biggest decision is choosing which ones will fill it up.
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