I just bought a Zen Nomad Jukebox mp3 player--Tell Me Anything!

[FizzFuzz]

I am geek impaired.
:D

[Don Claybrook]

1. What's under the hood?

I have an iPod, so I'm not familiar with the Zen Nomad. How big is it (dimension-wise and capacity-wise)? What's the battery life like, etc?

I'm still waiting on an iPod (or something else) larger than 60GB so I can put all of my music on it.

Anyway, congratulations on your purchase. Make sure and get one of the tape or fm things so you can play it in your car, and get the cable to connect it to the home stereo. I've also seeded the whole house and back yard with $10 pc speakers I can connect the mp3 player to. I'd guess I only listen with the headphones on about 10% of the time, biking or walking, mostly.

[FizzFuzz]

4. I'm sorry, you are asking me questions--beeep. Next player

I told you I'm geek impaired.

YOu're supposed to be telling me! I'm just trying to figure out how to use it and what the features are. I don't know how to organize music yet. But I have succesfully downloaded 2 bunches of music from Lime Wire. But I'm not sure they have a very big collection.

Anyway, its about 3x5x3/4 inch, 30 GB)

Wow you must have one helluva music collection!

Do you mostly download from iTunes, or rip CD's ? (by the way, I have now just about exhausted my music download jargon vocabulary.)

It sounds good, I'm looking forward to figuring it out! :D

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. I have a Zen Micro

I love it. It's only 5GBs (as opposed to your 40?), but I subscribe to Napster To Go, which means I can fill it with as much music as will fit. I've heard a lot of great new music this way.

:thumbsup:

[FizzFuzz]

6. I'm looking for freeee download sites.

Just got some cool stuff from LimeWire, free, but on the other hand, I searched there for plain old Oasis, and they didn't have them! Geeeeez!

[jim3775]

11. Spyware free file sharing:

Kazaa Lite

Ares Lite

And I highly recommend Shareaza.

[FizzFuzz]

16. Thanks again jim!

:hi:

[FizzFuzz]

21. I'm downloading Shareaza now!!

:woohoo:
weeeeeeeee!

I want All of Zeppelin, and Carmina Buranna for starters, plus some meditation music for drifting off in the evening!

wooooo---ie!

[ikojo]

33. Do you like live music?

Go to etree.org. Some live stuff is also available on limewire but not too much.

[FizzFuzz]

34. Yeah, I sure do like live music

I love roots bluegrass and blues :D

LimeWire is starting to piss me off. I clicked a bunch of tunes to download, and left the computer on for two days.

Exactly ONE song got downloaded. Everything else says "Need More Sources"
Hummmmphh.

I'm getting alot of good music from this: http://msn-cnet.com.com
Not big name artists. All different genres.

[Lauri16]

3. That one's on my wish list

Right now I have the MuVo Slim. I want the Zen Nomad. Still hinting with the husband! :D

[FizzFuzz]

9. hee hee! good luck on that!

I've never heard of the MuVo.

I checked around on Amazon and read reviews there until I got a good idea of how some of the main devices compare. I knew I didn't want iPod, mostly because its just waaaaaay too expensive for something that only has basically one function.

[samdogmom]

5. Try the Creative Message Boards for MP3 Players

You can get a lot of great advice there.

[FizzFuzz]

8. heeeeeyyyy!! Thanks! That's a good idea!

I'll do that; sounds like that will be the right place to go with my "how the hell do I work this crazy thing??" questions.

[jim3775]

7. Welcome to the Zen famliy

First go here and upgrade your firmware.

And if you want don't want to just drag and drop music and want to manage playlists download playcenter here.

And if you have any problems look here Nomadness.net

Do a full charge of your battery before you use it and try not to let the battery fully discharge before you re-charge it. Lithium ion batteries work better if you re-charge them at about 20% capacity.

[FizzFuzz]

10. Ahh! Thank you!!! Very useful! And welcome to DU

:hi:

[jim3775]

12. I've been lurking for quite a while actually.

I just don't post much.

[FizzFuzz]

14. so how do ya like it here? DU rules, doesn't it? n/t

[FizzFuzz]

13. hmmm, just tried to upgrade the firmware; didn't work

got a window that said that version wouldn't work on my player--that's wierd, I checked to make sure I opened the right link, for the Nomad Jukebox 2.0 USB.... humpphh!

(guess I'll have to go to the discusion boards.)

[jim3775]

15. Did you just download the latest update?

The updates are incremental and you need to do all of them in order.

[FizzFuzz]

18. looked like there was only one link for the model I have.

I just followed directions...didn't seem to be any 1'st 2nd or 3rd steps.

Hmmmmmmm

[jim3775]

20. Go to your settings menu and click on about...

what "version" is it.

Edit: not the firmware the device itself.

[FizzFuzz]

22. ohhh geez I already made a dumb mistake fine, should be alright now

I have a Zen Xtra! I didn't notice that on the first try. OK, should be alright now, the pop up window says close all other windows beofre it can install

[FizzFuzz]

23. That worked. One last problem now--

it says the update goes "together with Creative Jukebox Driver Update version 1.26.02, adds full Audible® audio support and allows you to use AudibleManager to download Audible audio programs, listen to Audible audio on your computer, and transfer Audible audio to your Zen Xtra player."

Soooo, I don't see the Driver Update 1.26.02 anywhere. So how can I download that if I cant find the link? Arg.

Also, what is "Audible audio" and where do I find it?

Sorry for all the stupid questions :blush:
I'll quit bugging ya now. :crazy:

[jim3775]

24. It should work with the softwate that came on the CD

Audible audio is available here

[jim3775]

25. Scratch that, the update is here.

link
In the first column select "mp3 players" and then select the zen extra.

And on step 2 ( "2. File Type (e.g. Driver, Firmware, Application)") Make sure "driver" is selected on the drop-down menu.

This is the direct download link:

http://files.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/PDE/8218/ENG/Bin/0xC8E0589B/JB3_PCWDRV_US_1_26_02.exe

[FizzFuzz]

27. Oh! Well, I'll see if I can figure this one out now

man this is some scary stuff for a tech retard. Oy!

[FizzFuzz]

28. Done! Of course, I have no idea what this does or how to use it

gonna be a long learning curve here.

edit: Oh wait! I see Audible audio is like a book club

coool! I'll have to check to see that its not too expensive to join, but otherwise, sounds great!

[jim3775]

29. My tech support only goes so far.

:argh:

Go to the nomadness forums to learn how to use it.:-)

[ikojo]

32. Audible is kind of expensive for what you get.

Also, considering you can get a lot of stuff via podcasting (may not work on non iPod players) why pay for Audible stuff?

If you are into audio books some libraries have a good selection. You can rip the CD to your hard drive and move the audio to your mp3 player.

I saw where one poster subscribes to napster....doesn't that mean you basically rent your music? If you unsub wont you lose your music? I hope iTunes doesn't go the subscription route because I will stop using them.

[FizzFuzz]

26. the CD is already installed...so I guess it's ok now

Now I'm gonna have to camp out at the nomadness forum, because I am totally confused about how to use the different feature, how to organize what little I've got downloaded alread, how to make it play a list, and not stop on one sone (was fine befire I downloaded th upgrade, but now its different)...
....too many questions to throw at just one person!

Thanks for all your help already!

[Reverend_Smitty]

17. I got one of those for Christmas

mine is a 20GB and I absolutely love it...I hope you enjoy yours as much as I enjoy mine!

[FizzFuzz]

19. Thanks! Yeah, the sound quality is terrific!

Were you already pretty tech savvy to begin with, or were you starting from "Tech Dummasses 101" level, like me?

[Reverend_Smitty]

30. Somewhere in the middle

I didn't know a ton about MP3 players before I got it, but I was able to figure it out pretty easily once I played around with it for a while

[FizzFuzz]

31. that's what I'm doin--now if I can just avoid dropping it in the toilet...

I'll be good to go.

go...huh huh...she said go...huh..huh huh

:dunce: