Creative Technology Nomad Jukebox (32 MB) MP3 Player

Pros: Good storage capacity - Quick charge - Durable case
Cons: Slow parallel interface (needs USB)- The incl. headphones are marginal. Way too pricey.

Summary

I bought myself the Nomad 64 as a present in '00 and have now used it for 6 months. Overall I love it. I use it for working out in the gym and for practicing my ballroom dancing. It's ideal for both. It's small size allows me...

Pros: good sound, compact
Cons: 8 character filenames, no win2k support, additional software problems, no clip, battery life

I bought the Nomad 64 because I wanted a compact player that had good sound. However, I did not anticipate that I would have software problems. Plain and simple, the software for the Nomad sucks! The following is a detailed description of a few good...

Pros: Light, easy to use, great sound!
Cons: Expensive, but you get what you pay for.

In the quest for perfection, mankind has over time, created audio devices that are increasingly portable, more feature-packed and less expensive. (well, that’s debatable) The history of audio devices goes back a long way, starting first with the bulky...

Pros: Everything Everything
Cons: Wish It Had A Backlit Display

I have spent the past few weeks reading epinions.com and cnet.com for opinions about mp3 players. It's a very large catagory, even though all the players do something very similar. For example, on epinions the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. On...

Pros: Very Small and a Great Price
Cons: n/a

I love my Nomad player and I doubt I'll ever want to go back to my old portable CD player. All the great things you hear about portable MP3 players are true, they're very small, they don't skip, the sound quality is great, and you can customize your MP3...

Pros: Small size, weight and convenience.
Cons: Headphones are not quality

STRENGTHS:
Small size, weight and convenience.

WEAKNESSES:
Headphones are junk - they fall out of your ears unless you are sitting still - not the case in the gym or dancing. I use a set of Sony sport phones.

Software for...

Pros: Features, features, features at Low Low Price
Cons: No USB, No CODEC updating

I have been in the hunt for an mp3 player ever since I caught wind of Diamond Multimedia's battle with the RIAA to release the original Rio (PMP300) player a couple years ago. As all the new players have come out, and the economies of scale have kicked,...

Pros: Just about everything
Cons: "Shuffle" function doesn't randomize really well (track number 1 is always played second, and doesn't go through all tracks without extensive listening)

While looking to buy an mp3 player late last month, I looked over quite a few opinions about the Nomad. Most, if not all of these were positive, but nothing prepared me for the awesome ability of this player.

Let's start with the size, it is...

Pros: Small, FM tuner, 64mb, and a voice recorder!
Cons: Buttons are hard to push, and the leather case makes it hard to use

I purchased the Nomad because it was a portable MP3 player for one, and two, it has a built in voice recorder, and three, it has a built in FM player! What a great package! The Nomad sports 64mb of memory which is about a little over an hour at a...

Pros: Great sound quality, Lots of features!
Cons: No USB, possibly defective (?), low quality voice recording

A Basic Overview of my Opinion:
Creative's Nomad 64 is a good overall mp3 player for most people. The features are wonderful! The fact that it had an FM tuner and voice recording on top of 64mb ram for mp3s influenced my decision to buy...

Pros: Affordable, Great Sound Quality, Long Battery Life, FM Tuner
Cons: Only 64MB (1 hour of music), No Backlid (Hard to see in dark)

Look at all the hype about MP3 players! They are small, intelligent, and soundful. But how do I choose which MP3 player is the best? I personally purchased the Nomad 64MB version from Creative Labs. The player is simply amazing, the sound quality is...

Pros: Size, Radio, Exandable
Cons: Parallel interface

My Nomad was a gift. It plays music great; I like the built in radio; the software does MP3 encoding well with a variety of options, and I especially like how it retrieves album information from the web.

...but since I'm a heavy computer user...

Pros: Compact design, great sound quality, sturdy
Cons: Awful FM reception, sometimes finicky media

I've been living with the Nomad 64 for about 6 months now, and am generally quite pleased.

Sound quality is excellent: bitrate of 128 seems to give audio quality better than FM,but not quite CD. I find for most types of music, this sampling...

Pros: Design, Voice-Recorder, Radio
Cons: Software, Parallel Port transfer only

I decided to purchase a Nomad64 awhile ago, to keep up with the MP3 revolution. Right out of the box, it was a pain to set up. The software included with the Nomad64 is extremely buggy, and the updates for the web site didn't help much either. It...

Pros: Magnesium casing, FM tuner, voice recording, small size
Cons: The controls are a little awkward

I have been tracking the progress of this player since Samsung first introduced it on their site as the "Yepp D." I held out for it. It seemed amazing. Better than the Rio. It was magnesium-cased, the website said, as well as capable of FM...

Pros: Almost weightless, great MP3 sound, great size
Cons: Flimsy compartment covers; freezes when bumped, poor shuffle feature, poor FM reception

I bought this player because I was tired of carrying a bulky cassette player to the gym, and radio reception at the gym isn't too great (plus, I go to the gym in the morning when most radio stations are full of yakking DJs rather than music). I wanted...

Pros: FM tuner, amazing sound quality, voice recording, works with your SB live
Cons: Bulky and odd design, really made to work with the SB live card

Creative has its high industry brand name as being one of the best computer sound card makers, if not the best. When it came out with its MP3 player it got a lot of buzz, good buzz. The player is nothing less from the hype you’ve heard. The Nomad has...

Pros: Low price, 64mb, Equalizer, FM radio, Voice Recorder
Cons: Bad Headphones

The Creative Labs Nomad 64 is a great portable MP3 player! When looking to buy an MP3 player, I was looking to spend around $150. I looked at all the electronic stores and even on the web, but I could only find 32mb players for $150. I finally decided...

Pros: Shiny! Great sound. Versatile... SHINY!!!!
Cons: Long transfer times.

I was going to write a flaming review of the Nomad.

I was going to rip it up one side and down the other, and when I was finished, I was going to spit on the remains.


I'll explain. I got the box after waiting on backorder...

Pros: everything about it is great
Cons: I wished it had better headphones

I got this MP3 player as a gift, but I've since shared it with many people. I like the voice recording option, and I like the way it operates. It is very light, there hasn't been any problems with it thus far. I bought different stereo headphones...

Pros: When you first get your nomad, you will use it very often
Cons: After a few months or so, you won't use it anymore

This review is intended to show how buying a nomad can be a worthless investment.

For a complete review of the nomad 64, please visit my review of the nomad a few months ago. (<a href=

Pros: Excellent, Many Features, Affordable
Cons: Semi-Slow Transfer of data.

I decided to purchase this product to be able to listen to portable music that was easier to carry than a CD player. I did some research and concluded that the Creative Nomad was the best product to buy. It can hold 64 megs of MP3 music (compact flash...

Pros: Great sound quality, light, and long battery life
Cons: Sometimes not dependable to transfer tracks correctly from hard-drive to the player

I received the Nomad64 as a gift so I can't say that I've been disappointed at all with it since I didn't have to pay for it. Overall, the installation of the software was easy and the click and select options of the software to install mp3s that I...

Pros: Great sound quality
Cons: none!

I waited a really long time for my Nomad. They were back odered in November, and I just received it a few days ago. It took such a long time because it is such a hot product! It has great features, including a built in FM radio, which is great.
...

Pros: Everything about it
Cons: Should have a remote control

All I have to say is that this is one of the best things I have ever bought. It comes in a very nice, complete package, and is one of the only players that has a built in 64 mb capacity and a 32 mb temporary, memory stick, that can be removed from the...

Pros: compact, fm radio and voice recorder
Cons: file transfer is slow and complicated

I have owned both a Lyra and a Nomad and I preferred the Nomad. They both have strong and weak points, which I'll summarize quickly, then go into greater detail.

Pros for Lyra:
Lyra lets you transfer files to the player a lot quicker and...

Pros: Amazing value for the money, great extra features.
Cons: Loading the player with songs can be time consuming.

My boyfriend bought me a Rio for my birthday, the old 32MB one. After reading the specs, I thought it might be worth it to return that one and upgrade to a 64MB because 32 holds only like 25 minutes of music. I began researching, and I was sold on the...

Pros: Best of its class. Small. FM tuner.
Cons: no win2k; tuner okay, software awful

Update: The Nomad software won't run in Windows 2000, and Creative has no intention of updating it. One guy claims that the Nomad's based on the Yepp, and a beta Yepp program will be able to communicate with your Nomad 64 in win2k.

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Pros: FM-tuner, voice recorder
Cons: none

Very impressed with the features. Well worth it for the FM-tuner and the voice recorder. Tried out with only 64kbps encoded MP3, still sounded good. Nice base, and rechargable batts! Good sounding ear buds too. Snappy design. Drawbacks? Awkward base to...

Pros: looks
Cons: Price, Average sound quality

As I saw the Nomad on the screen saliva built up in my mouth. It was so wonderfully designed, it would be worth the $250 if I only used it as a paper weight.
I already had a RaveMP 2000, but I wanted the extra memory and I wanted to show off...

Pros: future-cool design, 64 MB RAM
Cons: unfriendly control buttons

Still looking for the right portable MP3 player for yourself? Yup, it will be me back at last month. But guess what, I had ordered a neat Creative Nomad from www.onsale.com that truly become the dream MP3 Player I had waited so long.

The...

Pros: Small; plays FM radio; rechargeable battery.
Cons: : Leather case makes it hard to use.

We've been waiting since last May's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles to get our hands on the Nomad from Creative Labs. The industry buzz had us suspecting this MP3 player would topple the competition. And it's lived up to our expectations for...

Pros: Fast, portable, MP3 POWER
Cons: No Resume function

WOW.. I love my Nomad. We go everywhere together. With 64 meg Ram I am always ready with my hard rocking beats, or my Handel. I have bought 6 extra smart cards and they help me mix up my mix. Some people have said that I should have bought a cd...

Pros: Good sound quality, volume, price
Cons: Random play doesn't work, many other dumb flaws

Overall, the Nomad 64 is a decent product, however it has a few flaws it it that seem sort of dumb and could have easily been fixed. First of all, the random play feature doesn't work well at all. It always starts with track 1 and will only play in...

Pros: COOL PRODUCT
Cons: SKIPPED FREE

With a high tech magnesium casing it's solid, it's sleek looking, and as corny as it sounds it's fun to own.. and show off. Especially since it's the first player with 64MB of RAM for under $200. Or if you don't want to spend that much you can always go...

Pros: sound-quality is good, very small, light-weight
Cons: I am missing a good clip for the nomad which could come in handy while jogging

today I went jogging the first time with my new nomad64 - first time the songs were not skipping around anymore. I am a musician and as far as I can tell, the sound quality is real good. The functions - playing mp3-titles as well as fm-radio and voice...

Pros: Magnesium case, small, radio, voice recorder
Cons: No clip to attach to belt

When I first got involved in MP3s, I was totally lost. There were so many players, each with unique pros and cons, making it difficult to decide which player was right for me. That confusion ended when I came upon the Creative Labs Nomad Digital...

Pros: Very portable, cool looks and good sound
Cons: not cheap, kind of slow starting up, earbud headphones are just no good

I have had this MP3 player for about two years now, and I still use it almost everyday. I am a 17 year old kid, and this is the perfect little toy for me. It's small, can fit in my pocket without any problem, and it has a voice recorder and a radio,...

Pros: small
Cons: no support

I bought the nomad on features. I found that the thing does not go nearly loud enough. Also there is NO WINDOWS 2000 SUPPORT, not now not ever. this is not the first time creative labs have dumped on their loyal customers!
The latest gadget does not...

Pros: Small
Cons: Must have mp3 format

The main question people are facing when buying new portable music devices is do I want to carry this around. If you think about this a Nomad is definitely going to be your choice. The Nomad MP3 player is a small wallet size device that plays around 64...

Pros: is there any?
Cons: FM bad, software bad

I read so much review for this player saying how good it is. But when i finally got enough money to buy it, the first thing i said was aww man! The software that comes w/ this is terrible! The nomad manager is worthless, i think junior high students...

Pros: portable, affordable, lots of memory
Cons: bad cradle, slow transfer rates

I bought this product because my cd player had broken and i wanted a no skip music format. I have been extremely satisfied with the players performance and I use it often. First, it is incredibly small and anyone could carry it in their pocket. Second,...

Pros: Good Sound
Cons: Price

MP3 players seem to be getting more and more popular, but this comes at a price. Instead of having to buy music you simply download. This can be troubling if you have a slow computer in wich i would sugest going to computer section now.
They are a...

Pros: 32mb removable, FM radio, re-chargable
Cons: no up load

when i originally went looking for mp3 players, i ran into the problem of 'which one". nomad64 is the right choice. size, power, function. it has the added extras: FM radio, limited to earphone cord as your ant. still a nice added feature. onboard...

Pros: Stylish, Compact, Powerful
Cons: Expensive

While expensive compared to other players and almost impossible to get, this MP3 player far exceeded my expectations. It is so small that you can put it in your shirt pocket and forget it's there. It has so much memory that you have to strain to figure...

Pros: size
Cons: size and small memory compared to mini disc

Yeah sure this player is tiny and I do mean tiny, but the quality is huge.Sound quality is cd like but it can only hold 2 cd's worth. This is a major disadvantage. You need to go back and erase anything you wanna get rid of and put something new in so...

Pros: Features, Versatility, Small Size
Cons: Can't hold as many songs as other MP3 players

The Nomad 64 is a do-it-all all-in-one MP3 machine! It contains an FM radio, voice recording, and multiformat playback. The Nomad can also play RealAudio files and MP2 files. All these features put the Nomad at the forefront of the new age MP3 players....

Pros: Light, small, great sound, good battery life
Cons: earbuds

I spent two weeks researching mp3 players and right when i was about to purchase the Nomad, somebody beat me to the punch and gave it to me as a gift. I have to say it is one of the best presents I've ever gotten. I use it whenever possible,...