All user reviews for the Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox 3 20 Go

$200 at Mars music (closeout sale)
Purchased to use for mono digitial recording while on travel.

It records WAV files at up to 48khz and has a 6GB hard drive (or 20GB is optional). No need to MD or DAT for simple application such as voice recording.

Inexpensive, easy to use, and very small. Good digital recording capability for mono.

Good construction and quality, but I worry about how the hard drive will hold up.

Great little unit for simple digital mono recording. Nevermind that it is an excellent MP3 player and holds hours and hours of songs.

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Attention danger, it can happen!
For my part I use the MP3 player nomad jukebox3 for 15 days, the results are trsngatif:

1) the baterie m has t Deliv dfectueuse, impossible to have it replaced or buy one online. Support on line from Creative is slow, slow ... trs They promise a rponse within 24 hours ... Cel dj is that I am 12 days without rponse ... So if you buy a Creative MP3 players, it will not count on the support SAV ...

2) When the transfer of my mp3 player from my pc ... Mp3 1 of 2 passes ... All others remain stuck in the queue ...

3) To run the whole, my MP3 player nomad jukebox3 just hang on the intro "EAX"? So it is now unusable! The program is buggy ...

In short, my exprience is not REPRESENTATIVES can be but there is something wanting to switch brands!
For my part, CREATIVE and me is over!

It's been two months that I use and I is not had any problems.

Most:
- 20 GB hard drive.
- Denregistrement excellent quality (320Kbps, 44kHz and 48kHz for MP3, Wav 1400 Kbps for the)
- Easy navigation (classification by genre, album, artist, year ... etc)
- Space for a 2nd battery that's rajoutte longvitbr />
the -:
- A little big (but not too Gnant Either)
- Transfer from PC to slow as the player given its USB 1 (jai no firewire on my computer ...)
- The player can not transfer to the PC (put the recordings on PC. We must go through the optical output of the player)

qualitprix report:

excellent quality price as given that I was in acht OCCAZ for only 100

if I were to buy a player I would do without hsiter this choice, the price can be influenced me too, but compared to other players that have been hand-jai (Ipod, etc etc) Its one of the best player in my taste. It is certainly big but it includes capabilities that no other player has!

I use it for 12 months.

This is one of player / portable digital recorder market that has the best sound quality.
Indeed, it can play wav 48kHz 1400 Kbps and 320 Kbps MP3 and 48kHz.

Since 2004 he was dethroned by the iRiver ihp-140 which recognizes more formats (MP3, WMA, ASF & Ogg Vorbis) files and can play at a higher Bit Rates (8Kbps-500Kbps).

Recording side jukebox 3 remains very interesting! Indeed, it can record in WAV 48Khz, 1400 Kbps and 320Kbps MP3, 44kHz. Is a quality superior to CD and minidisk well above!

On this point, it is matched by IRiver ihp-140, which can encode MP3 at 320 Kbps, but apparently not to wav.

Side signal to noise ratio, it is 98db is the best on the market (to date), it is quality HiFi! With good audio cables, he can give his widely as good as CD upscale salon.

The hard drive (same as for Notebooks, so cheap) can be changed! Mine has a 60GB hard drive! The original disk is a 20GB Fujitsu MHT2020AT. It can be replaced by 40, 60 or 80 GB Fujitsu, Toshiba some work also.

The iriver, it uses a micro-hard drive, so it is more compact but more expensive ...

It is easy to use. For enregistrememnt, you can connect microphones, line in analog or optical digital.

Login to transfer via USB 1.0 or FireWire.

High-performance battery: 11 hours per battery. (You can put 2).

The transfer of MP3's is using a creative play center software, which allows égalementde rip audio CDs and connect to cddb.

It can serve as external hard Dique. It appears as a drive in the workstation, but does not work as a real hard drive. It must transfer the file on the PC in a temporary file before tournament to read or edit ... For larger files: Divx ... Archives ... it's not terrible ... Hopefully that improves the Creative software "file manager" to compensate for this defect.

The darker side iriver him behave like an external drive and just put all the files you want. He then recognizes MP3, so he can read. He seems able to read text files. On this side, it beats the creative jukbox.

It has 16MB of DRAM, which can continue playing or recording stops when the hard drive (when shaken ,...). It can store about 15 minutes of music in memory.

She can add an FM radio, which connects via a cord. The FM recording is possible. The iriver has the same type of FM receiver (supplied as standard, which is not true of the jukebox) but does not permit registration.

Contrary to what is stated in a previous message, it is possible to transfer files to PC jukebox.

Nico