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Summary: questions I have that's not in the manual
Review: does anyone no if the charger that come with can be use in europe or asia?
and there a piece that can slide off, does anyone no what that is for?
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Summary: Great product, great value
Review: I had been putting off getting a digital music player in the hopes that prices would drop. I finally decided to get the Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB, which was decidedly cheaper than comparable products from Apple, HP and iRiver. Boy, this thing is the best! I used to have to lug around all my CDs, but this thing stores my entire music library (THOUSANDS of CDs!). Navigation is easy; you can search by artist, album or genre, as well as create your own playlists. It has something called EAX which is supposed to be some sort of advanced sound technology, but I don't see much value in it. Supports both USB 1.1 and 2.0; I have 1.1 and it took about 48 hours to put about 8,000 songs on it from my computer. If you listen to it about 4 hours per day, you'll need to recharge the batteries about once every 5 days (do the math if you listen more or less than that). In summary, I LOVE this thing! It has all the functionality that I need, and it is BY FAR the best value. There's no other product that can store 40GB of music for less than $300. P.S. I listen to it while programming at work, and I've found that jazz boosts my lines of code per hour and cuts down on the number of bugs! ;-)
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Summary: So Good So Far
Review: I ordered this product but dont have it yet and looking at the reviews I have noticed that all the reviews that are bad are either written a while ago or they say that they bought it a while ago. So that means they must have made a newer model that seems to be a lot better!
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Summary: Best for money
Review: I purchased this 10 days ago. It's been wonderful so far.
I already transfered more than 2000 mp3s from my collection in to 20 play lists. It's playing just fine. Sound quality is quite good. The software that came with this is very good and user friendly. I ripped all the original CDs I had and converted them in to mp3s. It's been fun playing with this toy. I highly recommend this.
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Summary: The Product Was Great, The Software Was The Problem
Review: I purchased this product as a replacement for my 20 gig ipod which was too small for my music collection. I wanted 40 gigs, but was intrigued by Creative's alternative to the ipod. After reading the reviews, I decided to get one. And the player itself was great. But the software was one problem after another. First I tried using Windows Media Player, because it said it was compatible, but there were two problems. First, the player would not accept any playlists from WMP, no matter what I tried. Second, it would not accept songs with the same name. If I already had one song titled "Breathe" loaded, it wouldn't take any other song by that name. So I tried the software that came with the Zen Xtra, Creative Media Source. And it was worse. Not only was it difficult to maneuver, it actually made my computer shut itself down, more than once. It turns out there's some kind of glitch, and the best you can do is upgrade the driver, but that didn't work for me. There's no actual way to fix this. So after losing several important items on my computer, I returned it and got an ipod. As for the player itself, I had no problem with it. In fact, I really liked it. My problem was the software. It would be a fanatastic player, as long as you can get the software to work.
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Summary: A great MP3 player !!!
Review: I read all of the reviews that I could lay my hands on, and I must say I was a bit nervous. Until I got the product. It was easy to set up the software, I copied about 10 cd's,(with more to come), onto the jukebox and I even installed and downloaded a program called audible.com so I could listen to books on the jukebox. Other than having to go onto Creative's website to get the firmware upgrade to listen to the books, which was very easy as well, using this product has been much easier than I anticipated and I HIGHLY recommend it. I take it running on the treadmill at my gym, listen to it in bed, and I have had absolutely no problems with it. I agree with another reviewer, I don't drop mine, or I have not yet, but it is a hard drive, so some care must be taken?? Anyway, it is awesome and I am so sorry I doubted it at first!!
It is so worth the price....
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Summary: Wish battery life was longer... but overall, solid
Review: I recieved this mp3 player as a Christmas gift. I asked for an Ipod, but did some research, and found out this was a better deal and creative makes good products (best sound cards). First some things I like about the mp3 player:
Comes with case
Nice bright screen
Sleek (but a tad too big, especially with case on)
THE OVERALL SOUND QUALITY
The case doesn't "pop off" as easily as some say, I haven't had any problems with it. The player organizes the songs pretty well and has a decent layout. It is somewhat durable, since I've dropped it a few times and it still works. Lastly, the space. I've got over 1000 songs and 33 MBs left.
The problems I had with it was the battery life. This thing gets 5 hours tops, and this is why I want to get Zen Touch (15 hours +). The software that comes with it isn't great (but can download better software), but it does the job. The jog dial seems flimsy sometimes. The button layout isn't spectacular.
I wish I could give it a 3.5 because there's something I really like about this player. The bads outweigh the goods, but if you can look past a few minor details and look at what it's made to do, play music, it's a great mp3 player. If you want to sacrifice space for quality though, go for the Zen Touch.
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Summary: It's a nice paperweight...
Review: I'll keep this short and sweet. I've had the Zen Xtra 40GB for about a month. I'm returning it tomorrow (hopefully) to get an iPod. Pros:
- Plenty of space
- 1/2 the cost of a 40GB iPod Cons:
- User interface is difficult to use; jog dial isn't very easy to manipulate
- Poorly designed software (buggy and doesn't work 50% of the time)
- EAX sound field manipulation is garbage - don't use it
- Can't use it as an external hard drive w/o extra drivers
- Bigger than shirt pocket
- Sync capability is practically useless and error-prone (200 of my files wouldn't sync thru Creative's driver) The only redeeming thing about the Zen is a third-party shareware product called Notmad Explorer which is great - but unfortunately it uses the Creative driver and the Zen itself, so it's not much better.
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Summary: best mp3 player for your $$$
Review: I've been shopping for a good mp3 player. The apple ipod is too expensive for its size. You get 40 GB for half the price. The layout is basic and satisfying. Sound quality is good. This is for the ulitimate music collector. The 2.0 USB is excellent in uploading mp3 files to the player. I only wish that it had a car input jack to hook up to the car's audio player.
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Summary: Cheaper and More Versatile than iPod.
Review: So you want to buy an MP3 player? Well if you don't have enough cash for an iPod and/or a general mistrust of Apple products, this player is for you. The Nomad has some definite advantages over the iPod that far outweigh its drawbacks. First, it has a massive amount of storage at roughly half the cost of the comparable iPod. The 40GB version I have is capable of holding 4000 minutes of music. Secondly, the Nomad can hold both music and Data files, so if you need to transport a few documents between home and work, this player can also do that job for you. Thirdly, music can be copied off of the Nomad as well as loaded to. The iPod only allows the user to load music onto the device (Apple's attempt to prevent indiscriminant copying). With the Nomad, you can effectively use your player as a backup for your music. Finally, the computer interface is very simple and familiar to the Windows user. The Nomad shows up like a hard drive in Windows Explorer, and you simply drag and drop music into the player. The drawbacks of this device are few, but notable. First, the interface is nowhere near as nice as an iPod. They use a series of buttons and a clumsy wheel. It's not flashy and neat like the iPod, but I don't want to pay double just for a neat interface. If you simply must have that touchy-feely interface, Creative Labs is coming out with a Nomad Zen touch fairly soon. Secondly, the EAX sound features are utterly worthless. Unless you want to hear what your music will sound like in a church or a stadium, you wont use this feature. Finally, the organization of songs on the player could use a little tweaking. Everything is sorted by the ID tag of the MP3 file. iPod does the same thing, but I would expect something a little better from Creative labs, like being able to use folders to organize music. So to recap: PROS:
-Huge storage capacity at half the cost of an iPod
-Holds both data and music
-Can copy files to and from device (unlike iPod which is unidirectional)
-Simple explorer interface for moving music to/from device CONS:
-Unimaginative control interface (will be solved when Nomad Zen Touch comes out)
-EAX audio features are useless
-File organization leaves a bit to be desired.
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