Thinking about Creative Nomad X

I am thinking about getting the Creative Nomad Zen Xtra 30gb and i wanted to know other peoples thoughts on it. How does it sound? Is it durable? have you had many problems with it's
Thanks

I got my Zen Xtra 30 GB last week and it's been wonderful! It has a good solid feel and quickly got used to the use of/placement of the wheel and the buttons. For me it's the perfect player so far. I carry it in my purse or coat pocket everyday.
I actually bought two of them at same time from Walmart.com - one for me and one for my 6 year old for Christmas. I paid $74.63 each and purchased a 2 yr. extended warranty for $28.
I recommend a trip to www.nomadness.net to the forums - helpful folks and a wealth of information is available there.
I do suggest only loading the supplied driver from Creative and using Notmad Explorer from Redchairsoftware.com for transferring music. I wasted a lot of time trying to work with Mediasource and Nomad Explorer when 5 minutes with the Notmad software and I was rocking and rolling (literally). It's $25 to register but worth it's weight in gold.
If you are going to buy any hard dri've based mp3 player, I suggest you take some time to update/check the ID3 tags on your music collection, as most players (if not all) require these tags to identify/play your music.
Good luck - and enjoy whatever you buy.

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I am seriously thinking about moving to the adobe Creative Cloud. My concern is that if my design bu

I am seriously thinking about moving to the adobe Creative Cloud. My concern is that if my design business runs into hardship and I can no longer afford the monthly payments, what happens to my software and existing files?

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html
"If I decide to stop my membership, will I still be able to use my Creative Suite software and the other components of Creative Cloud?
When you cancel a month-to-month or annual membership purchased directly from Adobe or let a 3- or 12-month prepaid membership purchased from a retailer expire, you will no longer have access to the Creative Suite applications, other desktop software, and services that are components of Creative Cloud. However, if you saved your work to your computer, you will continue to have access to those files. You will also have access to the same benefits as a free Creative Cloud member, which include 2GB of storage space (reduced from 20GB), the ability to sync and store your files, access to a free 30-day trial of the desktop software that has not already been installed and provisioned as part of your paid membership, and access to the free level of services included with Creative Cloud."
Having said that, if you maintain a perpetual license, you will have to comply with the new Adobe one-version-back upgrade policy.
So when CS7 is released, you must upgrade in order to qualify for upgrade pricing for CS8. Likewise when CS8 is released, you must upgrade in order to qualify for upgrade pricing for CS9.
There is of course nothing mandatory about upgrading but bear in mind that you can no longer skip a couple of versions and get up to date every 5 years or so at upgrade pricing. You'd have to pay full price for the new suite all over again.
So it's a matter of costing the various options out over a 3 or even 5 year period and budgeting for it.
If you're running a design business, you perhaps also need to consider whether the Adobe software design tools are mission critical or not. Will your other expenses exceed the US$600/year required for the Cloud?

Hi, I am trying to find out a bit more about creative cloud... I currently use PS5 extended... I have it on my desk top at home but travel often and use a pc. which does not have PS5 because it is licensed to mac... So i am now thinking of using the

hi, I am trying to find out a bit more about creative cloud... I currently use PS5 extended... I have it on my desk top at home but travel often and use a pc. which does not have PS5 because it is licensed to mac... So i am now thinking of using the cloud... will i be able to use it on both computers? and will it work if there is slow or no internet?.

Here are some links to general information. IF you have specific questions feel free to ask...
Creative Cloud Learn & Support
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud.html
Creative Cloud / Common Questions
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/faq.html
Creative Cloud Plans
https://creative.adobe.com/plans

The Back Panel of the Creative Nomad Zen X

Is it safe to take out the two screws and remove the back panel of the nomad zen xtra? Besides voiding the warranty. follow-up question, would it be safe to spray paint the removable front panel and the back panel? Follow-up to the follow-up queston, what do you think about Gun-metal Black?

well, the back part shouldend have any bad effects if you spray it. Except your warrenty.
The front will not void your warrenty if you paint it. I painted mine.
Hopefully they will release custom face-plates. i'm starting to get annoyed at the lack of extras for there mp3 players. and of course the one i want (FM remote) isnt available for the Zen Xtra.. for some stupid reason. Why would they add the feature then remove it, then add it again to a later model?
Ugh.
Please Creative. Custom Face-Plates. You did it for the Jukebox3 and the Muvos.

I will never complain about Creative products again...long story

Two days ago I was a winy little #$%&* complaining about what my Zen Touch didn't do. It didn't support Audible, it didn't support Janus, has few accessories, blah, blah, blah. Then, it didn't do anything...it broke. So, in my infinite wisdom, I decided that I would get a replacement. I had always looked for something a little smaller, a little sleeker, and not an iPod (that's another story altogether). I didn't go out and just grab what looked good on the shelf...no, I had my priorities. Battery life is important, almost more so than features. I looked up several candidates
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr>
Zen Touch - 40Gb - 24 hour battery
Sony Network Walkman HD05 - 20Gb - 40 hour battery
iRi'ver (insert model here) - 20Gb - 6 hour battery (or was it 2)
Apple iPod Photo - 60Gb - 2 hour battery
Zen XTra - 60Gb - I don't remember the battery life[/quote]
At the time, I didn't even consider a 5Gb player because I was distraught. I had just lost something that, until that morning, was just another thing that I took everywhere with me. I didn't realize the gaping hole that its loss would create.
After reading some reviews, I settled on the Sony player. It's small, it's slick, ZDNet gave it a sweet review with the only real bad points being the software (Sonic Stage) and the only available music service (Sony Connect) and it's got a 40 hour battery. I got this beautiful piece of audio hardware back to the office and quickly downloaded some tunes from EMusic (excellent bit rates...better than ANY download service period...if you like independent labels), loaded SonicStage and dumped the songs on the player. At first I thought, "SonicStage is a little slow...", but I had no idea what I was in for. I played the device and noticed...the sound...a little tinny. So what! I'll mess with the EQ later! I have a 40 hour removable battery! I also noted, that you can't build playlists on the fly. They had a "Bookmark" feature, but the only way to add songs to a bookmark was if the song was currently playing. I missed "Add to selected" but hell, it's got a 40 hour battery. I got the beast home, installed SonicStage on my PC and pointed it to my music library of some 5000 songs. SonicStage didn't like the fact that my library was on a network dri've (I have a Buffalo LinkStation that has nothing but media on it.) It began the import and after 2 hours of lots of blinking lights on my router asked me if I wanted to copy the files to my local hard disk. Of course not! That's what I bought the link station for! Creative doesn't have a problem with this! Why was Sony concerned? I told it "No!" After about another hour of activity, It showed me that it had begun importing the files. Four hours later it was done. Seven hours total to import my files? No problem, I have a 40 hour BATTERY! I then, sleepily as it was 2:30 in the morning, began to copy music to the device. Since I had also done this at work, the software said that I couldn't put any files from another computer onto the device. I had to delete the songs on the device and register my home computer. Fine, the songs are still in my library. I deleted the files, the hourglass appeared...and stayed... Thirty minutes later...the hourglass...what the #$%&! Now, I was told ahead of time that I would absolutely hate the software by a friend that owns a newer MiniDisc player. I have a faster computer than him so I thought it would be different: it wasn't. I have a great deal of tolerance for computers because I am a computer programmer and technician. I could not deal with this...this THING had to go.
Today, I returned the Sony THING and gave myself till lunch to think about buying a new player. I came to the following conclusion. My Zen Touch will get fixed. I will use my Zen Touch until it completely dies. I like Creative's Zen Explorer...it's small, fast, and integrated into Windows. I like being able to queue up exactly what I want to play on the fly. Sony's didn't offer any of that. The Zen Touch may be a little fat, a little old (technology ages quickly), but the Touch really does nearly everything I wanted and does it well. Sony didn't even come close...it was just a pretty face, a slim design, and a bad personality. From what I can tell, Sony designed it's software for smaller players and smaller libraries. To me it doesn't seem to keep in mind, that I may not want to play everything by one artist or genre. It doesn't allow me to play an album, queue up another, and another...it allows that functionality on the song level through it's bookmarks. From what I hear the iPod is similar, but since I have no experience with the iPod, I cannot comment (If it is I'll add that to my reasons not to buy an iPod).
At lunch, I returned to Fry's (my 4th time in 2 days) and went looking. I picked up a 5Gb iRi'ver, then a Rio Carbon. I stopped... I was doing it again. Creative players had been good to me... I didn't need another big player...just a small player I could use as a backup...the Touch would be fixed! I then picked up a Zen Micro and didn't turn back. Perhaps my comfort level with the Creative devices is just way to high. Perhaps the Sony software just shocked me. Whatever it was; unless I can see how a player works and how the software reacts, I think Creative will always get first consideration when choosing a new device.

SSR wrote:
iTunes only works on two platforms, so it's hardly some paragon of development.
It's still one supported platform more than any other software, including Creative's Mediasource. This is a paragon of development compared to other MP3 players' software.
SSR wrote:
The only reason they got it working on Windows was to sell more iPods and tunes from their store.
You say that like it's a bad thing. One wonders why other MP3 player manufacturers haven't done the same thing in return to boost their own sales. There is no MP3 player to compete with the iPod on the Mac because it seems no other manufacturer is able to write compatible software or firmware. Gi'ven that the iPod started on the Mac and really started the MP3 player appeal for the masses, I find it staggering that no other MP3 player software developer even considered writing support for the Macintosh into their own software development plans.
SSR wrote:
I find the UI for iTunes *awful* so it's not as simple as you make out. Also the UI is hardly Windows compliant.
You may not like the UI for iTunes, but hundreds of thousands of other people love it! I (personally) prefer WMP0, but iTunes is the only other MP3 player management software that even comes close to that. Mediasource is laughable next to iTunes. The iTunes UI may not be windows compliant, but that's hardly a failing. When I referred to compliancy, I mainly meant the firmware (such as UMS support) did not conform to any known standards which meant that the software developers for the management software faced the burden of making it compatible with other (non-Windows) platforms.

Thinking about switching

I'm thinking about buying a Mac but I'm having a hard time trying to find answers to my questions. Such as the principle differences between standard computers and Macs and if my progrmas will work on a Mac. Even navigating this site isn't that easy.

Hi cyras:
...what to expect?
IMO, the best computing experience of your life: seamless interconnectivity; elegant, inspiring design; an extremely intuitive interface; all told, a computer that makes you more productive, enhances your creativity and actually makes computing fun.
Is Macs operating system as simple to use [as Windows OS]
IMO, and in the opinion of many others, Mac OS X blows Windows (any flavor) out of the water, from a number of perspectives -- security, stability, ease of use, efficiency, the list goes on....
Will my MS Money be compatible or does Mac have a simular program? What programs are available for surfing the internet?
You know, of course, that you could Google the answers to all of these questions, right? So, I'm not going to do that for you, except to say that Turbotax works on both platforms; Quicken makes a version for the Mac that (I'm told) does just about everything that MS Money does; and, while OS X includes a sweet web browser called Safari that does pretty much everything that Internet Explorer does, there are a whole host of other (Mac compatible) Web surfing apps out there, many of which rank higher than either IE or Safari in tech mags and like, such as Firefox, OmniWeb and others. This article from MacWorld has lots of good info: http://www.macworld.com/2005/09/reviews/browserrdp/index.php
Now, If I were you, I'd start Googling and research the answers to your specific questions, and, when you're done, run don't walk to your nearest Apple Store.
Good luck.
-- JDee

Problem starting up my Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen X

Ok well I have a 40GB Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra, and have had it for about a year. Now earlier today i was attempting to connect it to my computer to copy songs onto it. The battery ran out and i was not able to do this.
When turning my player back on, it got stuck on the loading screen that says EAX and did not move from this. When it is on this screen, i can't turn it off.
I let the battery run out to see if it would start when i then charged it, yet the same happened, and it turns on as soon as i put in the charger it is again stuck on this one loading screen.
I have pressed reset as well, and this makes no difference, it just loads up to the same screen and doesn't move. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!Message Edited by mattyb23 on 09-25-2005 06:23 PM

Go into rescue mode and run a disk cleanup.

I'm thinking about purchasing a 21.5" iMac. The base model comes with 8GB of RAM, and the RAM is not user-upgradeable down the road. Is 8GB enough memory or should I upgrade to 16GB?

I'm thinking about getting a 21.5" iMac which comes with 8GB of RAM. Unfortunately, the RAM is not user-upgradeable. Do you think 8GB is enough memory, or should I upgrade to 16GB? Besides internet surfing and email, I like to play flash games and listen to internet radio. Occasionally, I might want to stream a movie. I would greatly appreciate any advice you could give me.

For what you list, 8GB should be adequate. I ran with 4GB without any issue for over a year in my iMac i7 before I added RAM, primarily for running Win 7 via Bootcamp.
The tasks that need a lot of RAM are typically video editing/production, heavy-duty photo manipulation (not iPhoto or PS Elements), and professional page layout like Adobe Creative Suite. If you think that, down the road, you may want to delve into those fileds with this computer, by all means get the extra RAM.
I like to play flash games
I didn't try a lot of Flash games while I still had 4GB RAM but those I tried ran without issue and without causing a non-trivial number of page-outs

An Open Letter To Adobe Systems from Scott Kelby about Creative Suite pricing

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2011/archives/22903

PECourtejoie wrote:
1)Historically, there has always been a grace period, that allowed get the newer version for free if you purchased the old one very close, or after the announcement, and before the actual disponibility of the new version of the Creative Suite. This would allow, this time, to upgrade from CS3 onwards to CS5.5, and get CS "next", bypassing, this time, the one version limit.
That's true, and it's something I was thinking about afterwards. I remember after CS5 was announced, there was a grace period of several weeks where if you bought or upgraded to the CS4 version of your suite or product, you'd be entitled to a free upgrade to CS5 when it shipped. If that was the case this time around, then I would take advantage of it and upgrade to CS5.5 during the grace period in order to get CS6.
PECourtejoie wrote:
But in fact the Creative Cloud is already cheaper if you add the point versions upgrades, subscriptions to Muse, Carousel and maybe Edge, plus the price of whatever tablet apps are released.
Compared to the Master Suite.
If one uses only, say the Video Production, and has no need for the other offerings, going the Creative Cloud way is more expensive.
While that's true, there are also many people who find the prospect of cloud software subscriptions unappealing (myself, for one). I vastly prefer paying for something once and having it from that time on. The Creative Cloud subscription seems like a good deal for those who don't have that prejudice, or those who might want to use the additional "cloud" services that the boxed/download perpetual license won't have, but that won't be enough to change the minds of many customers. The Creative Cloud will apparently be around $50 a month, so it works out to $600/year. Assuming Adobe sticks to a 24 month cycle for major versions, always with a x.5 release around the half-way point (and assuming the upgrade prices for the perpetual license stay about what they are now), then the Creative Suite "box" upgrade will still be slightly cheaper, dollar-wise. To upgrade from CS5 to 5.5 is $550, and I'm assuming 5.5 to 6 might be around that same price, and then CS5 to 6 assuming the $950 position on that upgrade guide chart). When we're going to CS7, then I assume those prices will remain about equivalent for upgrades from CS6 and 6.5.
However Adobe decides to deal with this customer backlash, there are numerous ways they can appease most of us. Sony Creative Software has the most generous upgrade policies I've encountered for their products (granted, they only really offer competing products for Premiere Pro and Audition); Adobe is looking mighty greedy next to such companies right now. This thread alone has some good suggestions,
1) Allow a grace period with CS6 so that users of CS3 and CS4 aren't left out in the cold, becase many of us will simply go elsewhere if this doesn't happen. This could either take the form of an "upgrade to CS5.5, receive CS6 free" once CS6 is officially announced, or a period of 1-2 months after CS6 ships during which upgrades from CS3 and CS4 are allowed.
2) If they stick to the "1 version back", a price reduction of a couple hundred off the suite upgrades might help soften the blow.
3) Consider a "2 version back" instead.
Or some combination of features from the above.
Truth be told, if Adobe sticks to a ~24 month release cycle for major versions from here on out, I wouldn't really be opposed to upgrading every major version. $950-$1000 every 2 years to keep the Master Collection current sounds like a pretty good deal to me. But if Adobe expects me to buy CS6 as if I'm a new customer when I own both CS and CS3, they're in for a rude awakening.

Sorry Apple, but I miss my Creative Nomad

I've had my iPod less than a month and am having some real issues with the iPod. While it has the nicety of being able to view album art, photos and a photo slideshow, the main feature I REALLY miss with my Creative Nomad Jukebox was the ease of creating AND EDITING playlists on the go. I could save it as a certain name, add songs, remove songs from that playlist or just about anything - and did NOT have to be hooked up to my computer to do it.
Apple really needs to incorporate a better on-the-go playlist editor.

Hopw about sending feedback to Apple about this? (See the small print at the bottom of this page)

In disbelief... A small rant about Creative Labs sound car

The issues with the SoundBlaster Audigy and IRQ NOT LESS THAN OR EQUAL errors were well documented and discussed at length by myself and several forum members a few years ago. I recently built a new system from the ground up, and hearing so much about how great the X-Fi was, I figured I'd give it a try, thinking that Creative wouldn't have possibly let the same kind of nonsense slip into this card. Well, guess what, a few years later, a new card with a supposedly different architecture, and the result is the same. BSOD's, IRQ errors, having to clear the CMOS just to get the system to boot again... all the fun symptoms that I dealt with before are back again.
I don't expect Creative to take responsibility for anything again this time, just as they turned a blind eye to the issue last time, but enough is enough. This may be the last time I ever purchase another SoundBlaster product.

Hi,
There's an Optical S/PDIF in jack on the sound card. For more information, you might want to download the user manual.

Management needs to address this question about Creative Cloud subscriptions

Hopefully there is a satisfactory solution for this question. Then and only then will I feel comfortable giving Creative Cloud a try. I own Production Premium CS5.5 and Design Premium CS6. In addition I have stand alones of Photoshop CS5.1, Premiere Pro CS6, Acrobat Pro 9, Lightroom 4 (2 copies) and probably another package I'm not thinking about right now. If I convert to Creative Cloud and two years from now when CS7 or possible CS8 is the current version and I decide end my subscription to Creative Cloud reverting back to the disk version ownership, I will be required to pay additional money because I didn't keep my disk ownership current. I used to upgrade my Production Premium Suite every other version. I owned CS4 in that suite and when CS5.5 was released, I was required to pay an additional $250 (if memory is correct) because I hadn't upgraded to Version CS5. I think that subscribing to Creative Cloud should not open me up to my license being devalued because I chose the subscription (at essentially the same price for what I use) over buying the disk. Adobe, will you comment on this situation and add it to management discussions to assure faithful customers we won't have our current licenses put into jeopardy?

akrafter wrote:
I like the idea of Creative Cloud but subscribing to it for a mandatory 1-year is binding.
Thare are two joining options: monthly (higher monthly fee) or 12 month contract, billed monthly(lower monthly fee)
akrafter wrote:
And after the one year, do you go on a month-to-month or do you have to sign on for another year? I'm sure that's in the fine print someplace but I haven't noticed it.
Auto-renewed unless you cancel.
http://www.adobe.com/au/products/creativecloud/faq.html
At the end of my annual membership, what do I need to do to renew it?
If you would like to renew your annual membership for another year, you do not need to do anything. Your account is set to auto-renew so that you will not experience any interruption in access to your Creative Cloud products and services.
How do I cancel my one-year membership?
To cancel a one-year membership, you can either go online to the Account page on www.creativecloud.com or contact Adobe Customer Service. If you cancel your membership before meeting the 12-month commitment date, you will be charged 50% of the remaining amount left on your contract.
akrafter wrote:
I hope a lot more people ask the question and do as I'm doing, not buy into Creative Cloud until a satisfactory solution is arrived at. I like the looks of the CC package and I think it has value but not at the loss of value for my Creative Suite.
Not sure you'll get a definitive answer to that before CS7 arrives.
And you'll need a CS6 perpetual license in order to upgrade to CS7.
So I suspect a CS6 purchasing/upgrading decision (Cloud or traditional upgrade) will have to be made based on the info currently available.

Major problems with Creative Nomad MuVo NX (256 MB)

Hello, I recently brought a Creative Nomad MuVo NX (256 MB) it hasn?t been more than two months and I?m already having problems with the MP3 player. This is a little hard to explain but, the headphone jack (where the headphones connect to the player) whenever it moves (to the left, right, up, or down) the sound dies, or gets very staticy. There is no way I can play music this way, as the connection moves a lot. Is there anyways I can fix this? I hear that Creative will replace my product if it'ss withen 90 days. I also have proof of purchase, and original retail box materials.

obiant, this has been a problem frequently with some older models of the Zen Extra, although I have not heard of this in a Nomad Muvo. What happened with the Zen Extra is the headphone Jack was just soldered on to the motherboard with nothing to hold it on. After awhile the soldering job on the jack would loosen and sometimes break off. After a awhile creative then added a piece of plastic to keep the soldering from loosing. This may be you problem and if it is I?m surprised that creative would make that mistake twice. You should email Creative tech support to see what they think, they can also arrange to have the player sent to them for repairs.
I hope you get it working or fixed.
Email for creative tech support: http://us.creative.com/support/custs.../emailform.asp
Torstein.
Please help me with my post:? A Petition to ask Creative to update the firmware of the Zen Touch to Include EAX capabilities.[/b]

Please Help me....with my Creative Nomad MuVo 64mb.

:womansad:I am so new to this stuff. I have a very good friend that just gave me this Creative Nomad MuVo 64mb. The Problem is that I have no installation CD with it. So, I don't know what to download. I know abosolutely nothing about these things. I am just an old lady wanting to listen to music.
an someone help me out
God Bless You,
DaisySunshine:womansad:

Your MuVo can probably work without installing anything. Just plug it into a USB port and your computer should recognize it.
This page has downloadable manuals for the MuVo Nomad.
This page has downloadable software if your MuVo needs it.
You can add music by 'drag and dropping' the music that you have in using WIndows Explorer (Press the Windows Key and the E key to start Windows Explorer)
Navigate to where your music is stored (you may need to rip your CDs into .mp3s if you don't have any .mp3s on your computer first), highlight the songs you want to transfer by clicking them with your left mouse button and 'drag' them over to your MuVo by keeping the left mouse button held down. Release the mouse button and the .mp3s will be copied to the MuVo.
I hope that helps, feel free to ask more questions if I didn't explain something clearly enough.

I would like to know what you think about water proof cases?

I would like to know what you think about water proof cases?

This is a user to user forum; no fellow user can provide the information you request. I suggest that you take a look here: Have questions about your Creative Cloud or Subscription Membership?

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