The Jukebox 3 did have a number of features that made it stand out, notably a 30Gb hard drive (other sizes were available) two line out sockets (in addition to a headphone socket) allowing up to four speakers to be connected and, most importantly as far as I was concerned, an optical / line in socket. In contrast the iPad was sleek, small and oozed chic. The Jukebox 3 was introduced in 2002, about the time the 2nd generation iPod made its debut, so Creative no longer had the PC market to itself.Ĭreative Nomad Jukebox 3 - Won no beauty prizesĪt 23mm x 130mm x 35mm and 289 grammes (without batteries) pocketable it was not the case that was bundled with it (in European markets) had a belt clip on the back, but attaching it to your belt could result in your trousers being dragged down to your ankles. Before the iPod became the generic term for a portable music player Creative, who were a big player in the computer sound market with their SoundBlaster cards, also sold a range of Windows compatible mp3 players. 'A week is a long time in politics', as Harold Wilson may have said and a year is an age in consumer technology development. This was not a surprise I knew I had one I used it daily on my commute by train to London and it helped pass the hours during the disruption of the West Coast Mainline upgrade works. Everything is cool! This was my main reason for not replacing XP as my main OS.Clearing out some cruft from a drawer the other day I came across a Creative Nomad Jukebox 3. I am NOT using the 'Play 4 Sure' firmware update either!Īlso for those with the Audigy 2 or 4 sound cards, Creative have issued a beta driver for Windows 7, I am using this without the previous distortion that the default Windows driver gives.
I then started Mediascource software, noticed the Zen Xtra listed, clicked on 'Playlist', and it loaded, no problem! Playback, no problems, transfer to player, no problems! However, if you download the XP driver and right click the installation file and select the Troubleshoot Compatibility heading and use the recommended settings to install the driver, then install the Creative Mediascource 5 for Vista, then the plugin for the Zen Xtra for Mediascource (both install without compatibility mode), you will get a warning that the driver is incompatible but ignore this and restart the computer. I could only get basic use from my Zen Xtra in Vista, using Real Media Player to play tracks from the Zen Xtra, but in Windows 7 it works flawlessly.īasically the driver for the Zen Xtra is incompatible with Windows 7. Microsoft have certainly made the compatibility mode powerful in Windows 7!
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