The Creative Jukebox

There are two leading types of creative jukeboxes on the market. First one is called The Creative Nomad Jukebox and the second one is Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen
The Creative Nomad Jukebox establishes several mini milestones in the MP3 arena and confirms immediate market credibility to one major milestone. That milestone was the concept of the jukebox digital music portable itself.

Invented by another manufacturer - Remote Solution's Personal Jukebox - the concept jumped memory storage several gigabytes over the then standard 32MB/64MB configurations by using a laptop drive. Creative was the second company to employ this concept in a player and the result was an unqualified success. They took this portable and ran with all the way to being the number one selling digital music portable.

Both the performances of the Nomad Jukebox and Creative's marketing savvy earned this success.

The Hardware

The Nomad Jukebox resembles a CD portable in size and shape making it larger than most of the MP3 portables on the market. We actually compared it with a portable CD player and found the Nomad Jukebox to be heavier. Size and weight is the major tradeoff for jukebox players, but the advantages of capacity and cost per MB of storage weigh very strongly in their favor.