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#23013 - 26/11/2000 06:33 Nomad Jukebox from Creative
andrew walker new poster Registered: 25/07/1999 Posts: 17 Loc: Midlands, UK	For those interested in the Nomad Jukebox there's a good review here http://www4.tomshardware.com/consumer/00q4/001110/index.html if not try www.tomshardware.com what is the consensus on this board about it?
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#23014 - 26/11/2000 14:59 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: andrew walker]
muzza Pooh-Bah Registered: 21/07/1999 Posts: 1765 Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...	Great review! VERY detailed. interesting to see their reaction to the transfer back button being disbled. I doubt we'll see it being enabled or even included in future updates. can or has the empeg been seen by these guys? ____________________ Murray 06000047 _________________________ -- Murray I What part of 'no' don't you understand? Is it the 'N', or the 'Zero'?
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#23015 - 26/11/2000 15:13 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: muzza]
rob carpal tunnel Registered: 21/05/1999 Posts: 5335 Loc: Cambridge UK	That is an interesting review.. the Nomad was slated by several tech reviewers when it came out due to poor player software. I believe that speed was the main issue, although I have heard of other problems. I'm not sure if Creative have updated the software, or if this reviewer isn't so fussy. He seems unconcerned by the fact the player will take 3 - 4 minutes to boot (!) if you fitted a 20Gb drive and filled it with music. I wonder if this reviewer has actually seen a PJB100? Or any other hard drive based player for that matter.. he seems to think it's a new idea. Rob
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#23016 - 27/11/2000 22:48 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: rob]
PaulWay addict Registered: 03/08/1999 Posts: 451 Loc: Canberra, Australia	In reply to: He seems unconcerned by the fact the player will take 3 - 4 minutes to boot (!) if you fitted a 20Gb drive and filled it with music. I got the impression that that happened only on the first time you started; once it'd done it's 'review' it didn't need to do it again. But that might be fact-free optimism. Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. _________________________ Owner of Mark I empeg 00061, now better than ever - (Thanks, Rod!) - and Karma 3930000004550
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#23017 - 28/11/2000 02:34 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: rob]
debauch enthusiast Registered: 22/03/2000 Posts: 217 Loc: West Midlands, England	In reply to: He seems unconcerned by the fact the player will take 3 - 4 minutes to boot (!) if you fitted a 20Gb drive and filled it with music. As opposed to the 'go and get a cup of tea, have a quick snooze and then read the paper' length of time the Empeg takes whenever it chooses to do a disk check or even when it decides to rebuild the database? Now don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, just stating that in doing certain things, the Empeg takes its time too. Nick. -- 18Gb blue - s/n 080000299 (original queue position 8724) _________________________ -- 18GB red s/n 080000299
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#23018 - 28/11/2000 02:35 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: PaulWay]
Roger carpal tunnel Registered: 18/01/2000 Posts: 5683 Loc: London, UK	But that might be fact-free optimism.. It is. At least on the Nomad that n6mod showed us when he stopped by the office a few weeks ago. They might have changed the software since then. However, it took 25 seconds just to get the OS up and running... Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg _________________________ -- roger
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#23019 - 28/11/2000 03:36 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: debauch]
rob carpal tunnel Registered: 21/05/1999 Posts: 5335 Loc: Cambridge UK	Yeah point taken - but the empeg doesn't do that every time you switch it on. Rob
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#23020 - 28/11/2000 13:18 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: rob]
tanstaafl. carpal tunnel Registered: 08/07/1999 Posts: 5546 Loc: Ajijic, Mexico	but the empeg doesn't do that every time you switch it on. That leads me to the question: When does the empeg do that? Is it after X number of re-synchs? Is it after X number of playing minutes? Is it after X number of disk sectors are filled? Is it after a random time seeded by the sum of the digits on the license plate of Hugo's Miata? I notice that the older (read: more filled) my empeg gets, the longer it takes to complete this process. So is it only checking those sectors with files in them? Will there ever be an option to postpone the disk check, perhaps just a yes/no dialog box before the check begins? And how long does it take Rod (aka: mardibloke) to disk check his 64 GB empeg? tanstaafl. "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" _________________________ "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
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#23021 - 28/11/2000 13:26 Re: Nomad Jukebox from Creative [Re: tanstaafl.]
mardibloke addict Registered: 14/08/2000 Posts: 468 Loc: Penarth, UK	Only about 20gig full so far ( but recently many late nights getting my CD collection over to MP3 ! ), so far no problems with disk checking ( next time it does it I will time it ) noted so far. - -- Rod, UK Mk2 64gig Red S/No.341 _________________________ - -- Rod, UK
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