Creative Nomad Jukebox ZEN XTRA - Digital player - HD 40 GB - WMA, MP3 - silver | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative
Category: CE
List Price: $511.11
Buy Used: $180.00
You Save: $331.11 (65%)
Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $180.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  113 reviews
Color: Silver
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 16.8 x 13.2 x 5.2
MPN: 70PD055000017
Model: Jukebox ZEN XTRA
UPC: 054651063914
EAN: 0054651063914
ASIN: B0000DFZ67
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Featuring a large, hi-res, blue backlit LCD, the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra builds on the industry-leading music features of the NOMAD Jukebox Zen product line. Simply transfer all your music into the player with Creative MediaSource or the new NOMAD Explorer using ultra fast USB2.0, press the play button and get set to enjoy high-fidelity music. With advanced features such as Quick Scroller Navigation, Find, Playlist Creation and automatic ID3 tag categorization, managing and organizing your music will be a breeze.And the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra doubles up as an external hard drive for storing all your photos, documents and other data files. Simply open NOMAD Explorer (integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer) and drag and drop data files into the data folder or music files into the music library.
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 Great player...I still own it and it plays, yes from 2005 to now. November 1, 2008
I actually purchased this player at Comp USA, which is, as far as I know, no longer in business. Well, at least in hampton roads. I loved Comp USA, because like Circuit city or Best Buy, if you had a problem with a product, you could return it no questions asked. This is an incredibly well built player. The con is that creative labs only usually ships the software with their products and they can't be used with anything else besides Windows Media Player. Although now, you can't anyway since Microsoft licenses their Vista software to only cooperate with windows products....ie Zune. I still own this player, my second, since my first one I accidentally dropped while jogging and busted the hard drive. The salesperson tried to sell me over to the Ipod but I stuck with this one. To this day, I feel it is a great MP3 player. However, it will eventually give up and no product will replace it since Creative does not have anything on the market currently to compete with the heavyweights Microsoft and Apple. What a shame too, since Creative at 2004 was a major competitor. Now I feel like advertizing has pushed Creative Labs out of the ring of competition and eventually will die as a result. I do own a 80GB Zune, although that player sadly cannot match the quality of this one. Sure, it doesn't have a color screen, the abiltity to play movies, homemade videos, pictures or anything like that, but it's durable. Hardly anything I've seen or heard today has any longetivity to it. I wish companies would stop saying we're better than you and just go back to making high quality products like they did with Cassette Players.
Gotta Love Creative... August 26, 2008
I purchased my Creative Zen Xtra 30GB about a year ago from a local pawn shop. The only thing it needed was a new battery and it was good to go.
I have NEVER had any problems with it, which is really amusing if you think about it.
About a month after I bought this, I bought my husband the Zen Vision. Don't get me wrong, Creative products are the best, I just have a husband that is prone to computer mishaps... lol
He had the Vision for about two months and he somehow deleted the firmware off of the device... they shouldn't be designed where the user would be capable of accidentally erasing the firmware that RUNS the device. That is why I have stuck with my Jukebox Xtra... No firmware to accidentally delete.
I have tried iPods too. My son's iPod is the ONLY thing that has ever caused a complete HARD DRIVE CRASH of my Dell laptop. It changed ONE Windows root directory file and completely crashed the computer's hard drive. I will NEVER use iPods or any Apple products again.
I've been using Creative products for about 4 years now, and have NEVER had any problems with them (save my husband's stupidity of deleting the firmware on his Vision, lol). This Jukeboz Xtra may be old, but it's great! I highly recommend it for anyone who has a lot of mp3's they want to take on the go (and can't make up their minds about which ones). It doesn't do videos, but you can't watch videos while you're driving anyway, and in my line of work, I can't watch videos at the school either (but I can listen to a LOT of music!!).
 Refurbished = some annoying quirks July 6, 2008
I bought the refurbished version, so keep that in mind. :)
I bought this a couple months ago, and aside from two annoying quirks I love it. Plenty of space for my entire music library, decent controls (better than the annoying "touch" controls on certain players), decent sound (with a decent set of ear-buds) and easy navigation.
The most annoying quirk is that the player will for some bizarre reason turn itself on at odd moments. Since I use this to have music at work when I'm on brake, it becomes rather irritating to go to turn on the player, only to find that the battery has drained itself b/c the player decided to turn on w/o prompt.
The other quirk is that, unless you select each album to play individually, it plays the first song of each album first, in album order, then proceeds to the second songs of each album, etc...if you want the songs in true order, you have to select "play now" on one album, then "add to play" on each additional album.
Definitely not as great as the Zen Sleek Photo that it replaced, but worth the money, even with it's quirks.
 Buy it! July 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had my Zen for over 4 years now (hard to believe I've had it that long). I still haven't filled up the memory on it, I've never had a day's trouble with it, and it's easy to use. I'm starting to find it a bit bulky now in comparison to some of the smaller, sleeker-looking players on the market, but I still have the attitude "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". The zen is superb, it's reliable, it's solid and easy to use, and I just don't see the point in changing to an ipod purely for aesthetics. I love my zen, and I wouldn't be without it.
Very nice player December 5, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Before I bought this I read reviews at Amazon, Cnet, and other places. Some unkind things were written. I have been living with this player for three weeks and have nothing but positives. Being new to portable music I didn't want to shell out $$$ for an iPod, but I wanted the massive storage space. I have no desire to watch videos, listen to FM, or share files, so this Zen Nomad seemed perfect.
What it has going for it:
1) Better price bargain than any competing device (I got it at an after-Turkey Day promo for under $100.)
2) It sounds great. The included ear buds sound ok, but the fit seemed insecure. I spent more for Bose In Ear TriPorts. WOW! The combination is superb and better than I thought possible with portable devices.
3) The build seems solid. My case has not popped open. It doesn't skip (but then, I don't jog with it), and the display is easy to read.
4) I can replace my own battery, thank you. I don't need to send it off and pay $50 - $100 for a replacement. Of course, it's possible the player won't outlive the battery.
5) The software is pretty easy to figure out. But I must admit that people who aren't computer savvy might be hopelessly frutstrated. There really should be a section in the next-to-useless booklet that explains step by step exacly how to transfer an album to the player and then play it. I shouldn't have to go to Creative's website to get this information.
6) Ok, it's heavy compared to an ipod: and uglier, too. BUt hey, I figure since it's not the toy everyone else wants, it's theft proof.
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