Need the Nomad Jukebox Expert He

I Have just put a new hard dri've in my zen xtra,got the songs put on,everything was fine,but now my pc wont recognize my player,and when i play a song it has no info on the screen but the music plays anyways.any help would be appericiated.thanks in advance

Thank you for replying but I've tried every combination of driver and firmware available on this site, using firewire and USB connections, on 3 different computers. Via firewire the error message is "An application is interfering with the flash program...". Via USB the errors vary but?with older firmware it's "Your player cannot startup properly" or with later firmware it's "You cannot use this firmware upgrade with your player" . One combination of driver and firmware actually led to the ability to press an upgrade button but after the progress bar completed it said "Failure". If I start with the latest driver and then run the latest firmware, and I'm using firewire, the firmware installer says the existing driver must be replaced, which it starts to do and then BSOD's (same behavior on 3 dif PCs). After a reboot the same firmware installer reverts to the familiar "An application is interfering with the flash program." Maybe the BSOD prevented a clean install of whatever special 394 driver the firmware installer was attempting to install but I can't tell.
The JB3 worked fine with the first PC before I attempted to upgrade the existing firmware. The latest firmware upgrade wouldn't work so I figured I needed to use the recovery mode's option to erase the OS before it would accept the new firmware. That was a fatal assumption, though if this particular hardware rev was not intended to be upgraded Creative should publish that info rather than give people the ability to brick their JB3. At this point it's in permanent recovery mode, though with some drivers it will display the icons indicating it's linked to the PC.
These forums contain experiences similar to mine and the one published solution was to use the original v.0000 driver so I think I'm at that same point.

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How to upgrade the hard disk of the nomad jukebox

I read the FAQ of nomad on nomadness.net, I wanna know how to upgrade the hard disk of old nomad jukebox with a bigger one?
I also read a artical on tom's hardware about this,
http://www7.tomshardware.com/mobile/20000/mp3-3.html
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Does someone have the image file of the fist 65536 sectors from the old disk?
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That was the old method before Creative published their Bootcode Flasher software.
Follow the instructions here:
http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php...ticle&artid=24
All files mentioned are available somewhere on Nomadness. Also check out the sticky thread in their JB section of the forum as it lists what hard dri'ves will work in a JB and which ones won't. I hope you haven't already bought your upgrade hard dri've.
I used the above method without any problems and now have a 20GB JB.
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How do I get the Nomad Jukebox 3 to work with MediaSource Organiz

I tried to transfer songs, but MediaSource Organizer (Version 2.02.06)does not show the Jukebox 3 file library. I downloaded the latest version (CMS_PCAPP_LB_2_03_29.exe) of the application and when I tried to install it, I got the following message:
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Thank you for replying but I've tried every combination of driver and firmware available on this site, using firewire and USB connections, on 3 different computers. Via firewire the error message is "An application is interfering with the flash program...". Via USB the errors vary but?with older firmware it's "Your player cannot startup properly" or with later firmware it's "You cannot use this firmware upgrade with your player" . One combination of driver and firmware actually led to the ability to press an upgrade button but after the progress bar completed it said "Failure". If I start with the latest driver and then run the latest firmware, and I'm using firewire, the firmware installer says the existing driver must be replaced, which it starts to do and then BSOD's (same behavior on 3 dif PCs). After a reboot the same firmware installer reverts to the familiar "An application is interfering with the flash program." Maybe the BSOD prevented a clean install of whatever special 394 driver the firmware installer was attempting to install but I can't tell.
The JB3 worked fine with the first PC before I attempted to upgrade the existing firmware. The latest firmware upgrade wouldn't work so I figured I needed to use the recovery mode's option to erase the OS before it would accept the new firmware. That was a fatal assumption, though if this particular hardware rev was not intended to be upgraded Creative should publish that info rather than give people the ability to brick their JB3. At this point it's in permanent recovery mode, though with some drivers it will display the icons indicating it's linked to the PC.
These forums contain experiences similar to mine and the one published solution was to use the original v.0000 driver so I think I'm at that same point.

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I am getting antsy and bored waiting for the Touch firmware to be released. I was looking for a game and saw my good ol' reliable blue nomad jukebox sitting on the shelf. I gave it good hug. For over fi've years that CD-player sized original HDD based MP3 player has gone everywhere with me. Until a few weeks ago when i bought a Zen Touch.
I scoured the net, comparing the Zens to iPods to Rios to Ri'vers. In the end, my personal experience (happy ) with creative made me choose the Touch in the end.
Everyone likes to compare the Touch to the iPod, calling it the "iPod killer." Well let me tell you something, oh my brothers, that overweight blue monster with its 6 hours of battery life is the Touch killer. Hell with why the Touch is better then the iPod, lemme tell you why the Nomad Jukebox (C, or DAP as you care to call it) is better than the Touch:
My current "listening on a daily basis" music library come in at about 3.5GB. That's music i like to hear every day. That's plenty to fit on a Jukebox, and obviously on a Touch as well</LI>
I'm out on a research farm for about 5-7 hours a day. Both the 6hr Jukebox and the 24hr Touch battery deli'ver.</LI>
The Jukebox has fully functional EAX settings, the Touch doesn't</LI>
With a set of surround headphones, i can have 4 channel surround on the Jukebox. Stereo only on the touch.</LI>
The Jukebox has a three band EQ with programmable crossover frequency. The touch has built in EQ and a faulty programable one.</LI>
The Jukebox has a tree structured queue list, and individual items can be removed or added. Nothing like that on the touch</LI>
Pushing UP/DOWN simultaneously allows quick scrolling, and there's a page up/page down function on the Jukebox - the lists also wrap so you can go from top to bottom easily. Scroll, wait, wait, and wait on the Touch. If you're at the bottom of a big playlist... well, forget it.</LI>
Play mode available directly from Current Track screen.</LI>
All i need is a microphone to record lectures on the Jukebox. The touch requires an external part to do that.</LI>
I choose what comes up when the jukebox starts, and what volume. That way i don't scream bloody murder going from my car to my headphones.</LI>
Tracks, artists, and albums starting with 'the' have 'the' ignored on the Jukebox. The Clarks is filed between Chumbawumba and Coldplay on the JB.</LI>
Sleep and wakeup timers on the Jukebox.</LI>
Hardware settings on the Jukebox let me choose between it running like a Beetle Diesel, getting 56 mpg, or a Ferrari Testerozza, and getting single digit mileage.</LI>
No "push me to play everything and screw up your playlist" button on the Jukebox.</LI>
What advantages does the Touch have over my Jukebox?
Higher SNR (98 vs 96 i think, cant find Jukebox spec)</LI>
Smaller</LI>
Better battery life</LI>
Promise of better firmware</LI>
I'm an audiophile-geeky-gadget guy. I own 99.98% the MP3's i have on my PC. NapsterToGo, Y!MU, amongst others are appealing to me, as i refuse to 'stick it to the man' by illegally pirating music. You say only the record industry is getting screwed over - don't forget the musicians have a paycheck too. Hoping for support, just like we got support when DRM first came to be for our JB's, our Zen's and such, i loyally bought your Touch. I even remember the combo beta/stable firmwares.
When a product that you made over fi've years ago has more features, functions, and capabilites than something you've released recently - that's quite a tradgedy.
I remember a bus ride sophmore year in HS, my first MP3 player. The night before i spent hours ripping the songs to the player until 5am. It was cool, people were amazed, i sold them on this "thing" that held every song that they owned. It was both 337 and Chic.
Now people see the Touch and ask, "is that the new iPod?"
I found that sales is like a marriage. You need a first impression, you need your customer to fall in love with the product, and you need to keep them interested as long as possible. Well, after fi've years... i want a divorce. I won't buy an iPod - Apple will lose share because of their control-freak nature on their products. But i won't be buying Creative products anytime soon, or even again.
This message was a bit of humor to begin with - i started fiddling with my JB this evening. Then it got me to thinking, what happened to the creative that used to post new drivers/firmwares/updates every week or so? Where'd they go?
Where's that old Creative Labs that was just that... Creative?
EDIT: I thought you might like to know that the FW on the JB is 4.0/2.98beta... the last dual boot beta creative put out. Still available on the Nomadness.net site
Message Edited by harikari on 07-26-2005 08:3 PM

harikari wrote:
When i first got my JB, it had battery life comprable to an iPod, about 2 hours. With the ability in later firmwares to tweak HD settings, i could extend it to about 6 with minor inconviences like load time and some gapping.
It depends on the files though. With 28kbit/s MP3s you would get about 4 hours, maybe more with higher capacity batteries.
At the time, the only other portable audio was CD, and think of how many people still have and use CD players. True it was a projectile weapon...
Actually I liked that its form factor was similar to a CD player. It meant getting cases was easy, although I went for the skin case.
And i liked the NiMH batteries, they could be used in anything, and they lasted much, much longer than alkaline. You know why the JB says "Use only Creative NiMH?" One, so you didn't recharge alkaline cells; two, alkaline cells ran the player for <EM>maybe</EM> and hour and a half, to
ps.
They were certainly worried about using the wrong batteries in it, although of course any NiMH batteries, ideally high capacity, work.
Oh, and i booted the JB and Touch (cold boot)... took about the same amount of time. Touch was a 'touch' faster.
Not if you add content to the NJB though. Every time you change content it has to rebuild the library.

Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra Wont appear in the creative mediasource organiz

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hol3_c4t,
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Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 60GB not playing correctly anymore, help!!

Thanks. I keep getting directed to that knowledge base page, but it is not addressing my problem. My computer immediately tells me that the device has "malfunctioned" and the computer does not recognize it. I only have the usb cord that came with the zen, so I don't have another one to try. I love my zen and have staunchly defended it over the years vs. an i-pod. However, this is my 2nd onI've had my Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 60GB for over 5+ years. It has worked great, with minimal problems. I had a firmware update issue quite a while back. I'm not sure how to resolve this problem. Here is the situation:
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I tried loading a set playlist but it won't load. So I tried another, and it doesn't load. Not sure what to do, I go to the menu. This time I choose an artist/band. The music loads, but it doesn't play. I try again, then it starts to play. So I load a few other artists that way. It seems like I had a issue to work out later. Being away from my computer that was going to have to wait. After some time the Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 60GB started to start N stop diferent songs. A few times it froze while playing a song. Then would unfreeze to play another, then suddenly start playing the previous one. After about 0-5 minutes of this I decided I had enough. So I planned to empty the playlist, and turn it off. It took me atleast three attempts to empty the playlist and turn it off.
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Please help me get my player working. I really like this model, I'd hate to have to replace it.
in 5 years. (The first one fried itself, but fortunately was still under warrantly.) Sadly, I, too, am considering moving on. I onlyreceived generic help fromthe Creative SupportTeam (who ultimately told me my zen is "unrepairable" when their one-size-fits-all solutions didn't work).Since there seems to be an overwhelming # of people experiencing similar problems, maybe the time is right to make the change, especially since an iPod classic 60 GB (7th Generation) is quite affordable these days.
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Formatting will erase all the files on the player,Cleanup scans the disc & corrects file system errors,broken links (from when you delete things)ect. but does NOT repair bad sectors,Reboot then rebuilds the file system. I'd do the Cleanup>Reboot first to see if that solves the problem.here you will find how to open the player to see what dri've is in there. You can then search Ebay or Google the model number to find another one.

Nomad Jukebox 2

I am new to the forums so I am sorry if I do something wrong or make a stupid question but I have a nomad jukebox 2 with a 0gb hard dri've in it. I want to be able to use it as an external hard dri've because I have a CD player for my truck that allows me to attach an external hard dri've via USB and play the music directly from the device and the cd player can scroll through the hard dri've for the music I am looking for. Is there any way to turn the nomad into something like this? Thanks again for your help.

Hello Will, Nomad Jukebox 2 is very old product (but I still like it). Its USB port does not support as external HDD (eg. as external Flash disk). This USB port on Nomad Jukebox 2 can be connected with PC only for download or upload songs, playlists, etc. Nomad Jukebox 2 communicate only with Creative SW (CMS_PCAPP_LB_2_03_29.exe) and only via special installed Creative USB driver (nmdrv_us.exe). Maybe it can function with some other music players eg. WMP or Winamp, I am not sure.
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I am currently running Windows XP-64 and own a Nomad Jukebox 3.
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Hello,
Many thanks for your replies.
Unfortunately I could not get the device to work, this is what I did:
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Status: No updates are necessary for your Creative product. Your system already has the latest versions installed.
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"Show Detection Window to Select Task to Perform" - Checked
3) I then closed down CMS and took out the USB from my Jukebox and from the back of the PC. The PC played a sound when I reconnected, however when I went back into CMS I still have the same screen.
4) Also, I have an auto shutoff after a couple of minutes. When the Jukebox switches off, XP-64 then displays an error "USB device not found".
5) Please also note, that there appears to be no device written for the Nomad Jukebox 3 using XP-64. Do I need to wait for this driver first ?
6) The really weird thing is that XP-64 "knows" it's a Nomad Jukebox !! Whenever I reboot, remove the USB and reconnect XP-64 says "Nomad Jukebox" found !! The problem then, is that it's asking for the latest drivers.
ClaytonMessage Edited by Clayton on 0-04-2005 :55 PM

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