Rating: 
Summary: Kickin' Player
Review: This is the first mp3 player that I have ever owned. It is everything I expected and more. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money, so i looked into the Nomad. Here's some facts from my personal experience...-several hours of battery (the recharchables included are very handy and easy. -i put about 12 or 13 mp3s on there and still had room for plenty of voice recording -easy to use... everything installed really easy and went smooth on the transfers. i can't say whether it was fast or not. i haven't seen any others with the USB to compare to. it only took about 20 secs. or so per mp3... i didn't think that was too bad -it looks really cool... high "wow factor" thats about it... if you wanna e-mail me to ask me any questions... my email is Southbum@aol.com.
Rating:
Summary: Kickin' Player
Review: This is the first mp3 player that I have ever owned. It is everything I expected and more. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money, so i looked into the Nomad. Here's some facts from my personal experience... -several hours of battery (the recharchables included are very handy and easy. -i put about 12 or 13 mp3s on there and still had room for plenty of voice recording -easy to use... everything installed really easy and went smooth on the transfers. i can't say whether it was fast or not. i haven't seen any others with the USB to compare to. it only took about 20 secs. or so per mp3... i didn't think that was too bad -it looks really cool... high "wow factor" thats about it... if you wanna e-mail me to ask me any questions... my email is Southbum@aol.com.
Rating: 
Summary: hold your horses
Review: This mp3 player is "wireless streaming local content enabled"- it can convert "electromagnetic frequency modulation transmissions" in to high quality stereo audio. There is an abundance of wireless content in locales throughout the World, transmitting in the range of 87.5 to 108 Megahertz. To put this in to layman's terms, it has an FM radio built in. In this MP3 induced euphoria, one sometimes forgets about the value of FM, and how the 64 MB hand-picked selection of music sometimes just isn't what you want to hear. Thats a big fat plus for the Nomad, a quality few of its competitors possess. And I must say that the nomad FM reciever is high quality sound, and it holds ten presets, the perfect ammount. The interface software is absolute crap compared to the RIO's (pmp300) simple easy use and mannage software. I'm serious, trust me, the software that comes with the nomad is crap and you are stuck with it. Hello creativelabs, just because your modem instalation software works, what are you thinking? mp3 download software is supposed to be quick easy painless, etc.. the opposite of your software (c'mon, when you drag a file into the nomad memory, only its msdos name shows up, like an ancient language). And it is so sloooow with its parallel port connection. I don't have time for this, you probably don't either. I want an Mp3 player whose smartmedia cards can be read on a flashpath disk or usb reader, and I am yet to find one. (Note: The rio and nomad both use propietary disk formats, forcing you to use their software, and not support external smartmedia readers.) The voice recorder works well- no external mike input, but adequate to record someone or something funny and have it on digital one time. The nomad had good volume, but doesn't pump quite loud enough when the rare occasion calls. my rough tests show that that the Rio pmp300 gives a slightly higher volume output. Good set of headphones for mp3 players = sony mdr-v300 (sold here on amazonia). The nomad looks really stylee, and the readout is clear (though not backlit). The base charger is a little excessive in size without reason, and doesn't have a printer pass-through for your parallel port (which the Rio pmp300 does). I really like how small, cool looking and feature rich this thing is, but it's a pain using their software. It stacks up well regardless. It seems that the nomad 2 is a big improvement.(not out yet, but you can check it at creativelabs.com). Come on amazon, why don't you give your customers a discount on this product- how can you charge retail for this- you dont charge retail for anything else?
Rating:
Summary: hold your horses
Review: This mp3 player is "wireless streaming local content enabled"- it can convert "electromagnetic frequency modulation transmissions" in to high quality stereo audio. There is an abundance of wireless content in locales throughout the World, transmitting in the range of 87.5 to 108 Megahertz. To put this in to layman's terms, it has an FM radio built in. In this MP3 induced euphoria, one sometimes forgets about the value of FM, and how the 64 MB hand-picked selection of music sometimes just isn't what you want to hear. Thats a big fat plus for the Nomad, a quality few of its competitors possess. And I must say that the nomad FM reciever is high quality sound, and it holds ten presets, the perfect ammount. The interface software is absolute crap compared to the RIO's (pmp300) simple easy use and mannage software. I'm serious, trust me, the software that comes with the nomad is crap and you are stuck with it. Hello creativelabs, just because your modem instalation software works, what are you thinking? mp3 download software is supposed to be quick easy painless, etc.. the opposite of your software (c'mon, when you drag a file into the nomad memory, only its msdos name shows up, like an ancient language). And it is so sloooow with its parallel port connection. I don't have time for this, you probably don't either. I want an Mp3 player whose smartmedia cards can be read on a flashpath disk or usb reader, and I am yet to find one. (Note: The rio and nomad both use propietary disk formats, forcing you to use their software, and not support external smartmedia readers.) The voice recorder works well- no external mike input, but adequate to record someone or something funny and have it on digital one time. The nomad had good volume, but doesn't pump quite loud enough when the rare occasion calls. my rough tests show that that the Rio pmp300 gives a slightly higher volume output. Good set of headphones for mp3 players = sony mdr-v300 (sold here on amazonia). The nomad looks really stylee, and the readout is clear (though not backlit). The base charger is a little excessive in size without reason, and doesn't have a printer pass-through for your parallel port (which the Rio pmp300 does). I really like how small, cool looking and feature rich this thing is, but it's a pain using their software. It stacks up well regardless. It seems that the nomad 2 is a big improvement.(not out yet, but you can check it at creativelabs.com). Come on amazon, why don't you give your customers a discount on this product- how can you charge retail for this- you dont charge retail for anything else?
Rating:
Summary: A good MP3 Player with some problems
Review: This player is great for the money. 64 MB of RAM is enough (about 20 songs) and the voice and FM features are also pretty good. I didn't like however the parallel port interface. I have a printer, scanner and ZIP drive on my computer and have to unplug them to use this device. This was a very poor design by Creative. There is no extension port on the cradle to run it on the parallel port. Also, the rechargeable batteries are an annoyance. You always have to use them if you are using the cradle and I do not like them. Other than that I am pretty happy with my purchase and would recommend this product to anyone.
Rating: 
Summary: excellent player!
Review: This unit impressed me. It is fast, even with the parallel port. Thesound is quite good, although I use regular headphones instead of the in-the-ear type provided. It includes rechargable batteries and stands apart from the RIO because it also has an FM radio. Unless you really need the speed of a USB port, this unit is definitely a better buy at [much] less.
Rating:
Summary: excellent player!
Review: This unit impressed me. It is fast, even with the parallel port. Thesound is quite good, although I use regular headphones instead of the in-the-ear type provided. It includes rechargable batteries and stands apart from the RIO because it also has an FM radio. Unless you really need the speed of a USB port, this unit is definitely a better buy at [much] less.
Rating:
Summary: . . . best bang for the buck
Review: Took me 15 minutes to unpack, set up, install the software and start downloading my first mp3 into the thing. The interface of sofware and the player is very intuitive, making the comprehensive documentation almost useless. Compareable feature-wise to most other 64 MB mp3 players that retail for $100 more. It sports a durable magnesium casing for you clumsby people, yet it still remains lighter and smaller than most other mp3 players. Would've been better if it had a USB interface though; downloads are a little slow. Buttons are a extremely TINY, very annoying for those of us with huge fingers. But, overall, this is an excellent and arguably the most feature-rich mp3 player for the $150 price range. If listening to mp3s are new to you and you've just decided to try out for an mp3 player, go out for this one. You can't go wrong.
Rating:
Summary: this is great
Review: when i bought this product is was the best thing that ever happened to me! i could record all my favorite songs off the internet.
Rating:
Summary: If you want a good player for less money get this one!
Review: When i first received my Creative Nomad I opened it up and was amazed at how cool it looks. It's Silver and is about the size of a deck of cards! If you get it get new headphones the earbuds aren't very good. Within 15 minutes I was installed and downloading my songs which take 20 secs each even though i doesn't have USB support which doesn't bother me at all. The music is high quality and it's worth the price.
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