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The Creative NOMAD was a range of digital audio players designed and sold by Creative Technology, and later discontinued in 2004. Creative MP3 players now fall exclusively under the MuVo and Creative ZEN brands. Apple iPod, the most popular hard drive-based digital audio player An embedded hard drive-based player (Creative Zen Vision:M), one of the many alternatives for the iPod An MP3 CD player (Philips Expanium) Some mobile phones can be used as digital audio players, such as the Nokia 6233. ...
Creative Technology Limited (SGX: C76, NASDAQ: CREAF) is a listed manufacturer of computer multimedia products based in Singapore where the firm was initially founded by Sim Wong Hoo (born 1955) on July 1, 1981. ...
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Zen Vision:M, Creatives flagship player, in all five of its colors. ...
The NOMAD range consisted of two distinct brands:
- NOMAD and NOMAD MuVo branded players which used solid state flash memory.
- NOMAD Jukebox branded players which stored data on miniaturised hard disk drives. The NOMAD Jukebox series of players and its derivatives are now known as the Creative ZEN.
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Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
NOMAD and NOMAD MuVo For more detailed information on MuVo models, see Creative MuVo photo of a Nomad II, taken by Hoshie, playing Evanescences hit Bring Me to Life. Photo is public domain. ...
photo of a Nomad II, taken by Hoshie, playing Evanescences hit Bring Me to Life. Photo is public domain. ...
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The compact MuVo models appear as a USB mass storage device to the operating system so that the device can be accessed like any other removable disk, a floppy disk for example. Older MuVo devices and all Jukebox models use a custom protocol named PDE (Portable Digital Entertainment, a Creative internal device designation) that requires the installation of drivers before the device can be recognised by the operating system. The USB mass storage device class is a set of computing communications protocols defined by the USB Implementers Forum that run on the Universal Serial Bus. ...
A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ...
Creative's foray into the MP3 player market began with the Creative NOMAD, a rebranded Samsung Electronics Yepp YP-D40 player with 64 megabytes of solid-state memory. Samsung Electronics (Hangul:ì‚¼ì„±ì „ìž; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is one of the worlds largest IT companies by revenue. ...
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USB 1.1 connection Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices. ...
- Creative NOMAD II
- Creative NOMAD IIc
- Creative NOMAD II MG
- Creative NOMAD MuVo
- Creative NOMAD MuVo NX
USB 2.0 connection Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices. ...
- Creative NOMAD MuVo2
- Creative NOMAD MuVo2 X-Trainer
- Creative NOMAD MuVo2 FM
- Creative NOMAD MuVo USB 2.0
- Creative NOMAD MuVo TX
- Creative NOMAD MuVo TX (Second Edition)
- Creative NOMAD MuVo TX FM
- Creative NOMAD Muvo Micro V200
- Creative NOMAD MuVo Micro v100
- Creative NOMAD Muvo Micro N200
NOMAD Jukebox Zen For more detailed information on ZEN models, see Creative ZEN Zen Vision:M, Creatives flagship player, in all five of its colors. ...
The first NOMAD Jukebox used the OASiS operating system (not the OS later known as THEOS, but an OS developed in India) while later NOMAD jukeboxes used Creative's own firmware. Most jukeboxes use a Texas Instruments TMS320DA25x ARM plus digital signal processor as their CPU and support some version of Creative's environmental audio extensions (EAX). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x864, 195 KB) Photo of the Creative Nomad Jukebox (DAP), playing Think of You by Gavin Froome (Underground Heroes, 2004). ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x864, 195 KB) Photo of the Creative Nomad Jukebox (DAP), playing Think of You by Gavin Froome (Underground Heroes, 2004). ...
Four double-A (AA) rechargeable batteries In science and technology, a battery is a device that stores chemical energy and makes it available in an electrical form. ...
A gigabyte (derived from the SI prefix giga-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one billion (short scale, meaning a thousand million) bytes. ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
Texas Instruments TMS320 is a blanket name for a series of digital signal processors from Texas Instruments. ...
The ARM architecture (previously, the Advanced RISC Machine, and prior to that Acorn RISC Machine) is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture that is widely used in a number of embedded designs. ...
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time. ...
The environmental audio extensions (or EAX) are a number of digital signal processing presets for audio, present in Creative Labs later Sound Blaster sound cards and the Creative NOMAD/Creative Zen product lines. ...
The Creative NOMAD Jukeboxes have varied in their use of connections. The NOMAD Jukebox 3 and Jukebox Zen were unusual in their use of the older USB 1.1 standard despite their predecessor, the NOMAD Jukebox 2, having used the newer USB 2.0 standard. Part of the reason for this was the inclusion of a FireWire connection, which is of comparable speed to USB 2.0. The 6-pin and 4-pin FireWire Connectors FireWire is Apple Inc. ...
 NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra (60GB)
 Most ZEN players feature easily replaceable batteries USB 1.1 connection ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 230 KB) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 230 KB) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 227 KB) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 227 KB) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices. ...
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox (Creative Digital Audio Player in Europe)
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox 3 (also features a FireWire connection)
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen (also features a FireWire connection)
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Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices. ...
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox 2
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen USB 2.0
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen NX
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra
A variant of the NOMAD Jukebox is also sold as an OEM product by Dell under the name Dell Digital Jukebox (Dell DJ), a USB 2.0 device. The Second Generation Dell DJ and Dell Pocket DJ 5 are also OEM products from Creative. Original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, is a term that refers to a situation in which one company purchases a manufactured product from another company and resells the product as its own, usually as a part of a larger product the original company is selling. ...
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The Dell Digital Jukebox or just Dell DJ was a brand name for a series of Digital jukeboxes sold by the Dell Computer corporation. ...
Future versions in the Creative ZEN line exclusively use Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol (also known as PlaysForSure), and some legacy devices have been supplied with firmware upgrades to support MTP. The first NOMAD player and the first NOMAD Jukebox use proprietary protocols, neither PDE or MTP. The Media Transfer Protocol is a set of extensions to the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) and FotoNations PTP/IP (extensions for wireless PTP) devised by Microsoft, to allow the protocol to be used for devices other than digital cameras, for example digital audio players and MP3 players. ...
PlaysForSure is a marketing certification given by Microsoft to portable hardware media players that have been verified to work with Microsoft Windows, specifically Windows XP and newer releases. ...
Related Software Besides the NOMAD Explorer or MediaSource programs included with the devices, there are other programs which can be used to manage the player and to transfer data.
Bundled software
- Creative NOMAD Explorer - Software included with older NOMAD models and used to transfer music and data to the device. This has since been replaced by Creative MediaSource
- Creative MediaSource - A fully featured audio player for Microsoft Windows that also manages NOMAD devices and can be used to transfer media to the device or to synchronise playlists with the device - a feature that was unavailable in the previous NOMAD Explorer software.
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For NOMAD Jukeboxes - libnjb is the driver underlying most of the following programs
- Amarok is a music player for Linux
- Banshee is a music player for Linux
- Gnomad is a Jukebox Manager for Linux
- Neutrino is another Jukebox Manager for Linux
- XNJB is a Jukebox Manager for Mac OS X
- Nomadsync is a Jukebox synchronization tool for both Microsoft Windows and Linux
- Creative Nomad Jukebox KIO::Slave is an integration driver for KDE
- JBHTTP is a webserver interface to Jukeboxes that is similar to what Notmad Explorer (see below) provides for Microsoft Windows
Proprietary software Amarok (formerly known as amaroK) is a free software music player for GNU/Linux and other varieties of Unix. ...
Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ...
Banshee is an audio player for Linux operating systems, that uses Mono and Gtk#. It also uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platforms to play, encode, and decode Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, and other formats. ...
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Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ...
Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ...
Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...
Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ...
KDE (K Desktop Environment) (IPA: ) is a free software project which aims to be a powerful ecosystem for an easy-to-use desktop environment. ...
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...
Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ...
- Notmad Explorer by Red Chair Software is a jukebox management program for Microsoft Windows. The program is notable for fully integrating NOMAD devices into Windows Explorer, providing a web-based interface to the device and providing search capabilities using a built-in SQL database
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See also Creative Technology Limited (SGX: C76, NASDAQ: CREAF) is a listed manufacturer of computer multimedia products based in Singapore where the firm was initially founded by Sim Wong Hoo (born 1955) on July 1, 1981. ...
Zen Vision:M, Creatives flagship player, in all five of its colors. ...
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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