Word: nomadic
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...Nomad Jukebox CREATIVE, $500 This sleek, easy-to-use MP3 player can hold as much music as 150 CDs. The Nomad lets you record from other devices and transfer the files to your Mac or PC. Backlighted screen for your playlist...
...Nomad is also the only one of the three jukeboxes that functions like, well, a jukebox--only without the quarters. You can select your songs in a flash (they start playing instantly) and queue up new tunes even as the old ones are playing. The Nomad would be perfect for a long road trip with your co-pilot playing deejay--except, of course, for that pesky four-hour battery life. (Remote Solutions solves that problem by shipping its jukebox with a car-outlet adapter...
Still, the Nomad was good enough to get me started. Its hard disk, unfortunately, was not sufficiently spacious to store my entire collection. Creative Labs claims the average CD collection is much smaller than mine, between 80 and 120 CDs, and the Nomad certainly has space for that. The rest of my bulky medley is now squatting happily on my computer's hard drive; I just swap tracks as necessary...
Meanwhile, I'm happy to report that the Nomad can not only alphabetize tracks but cross-index by album, artist and genre. That's going to keep me occupied for some months to come...
...more information about the Nomad Jukebox, visit nomadworld.com Questions for Chris? E-mail him at cdt@well.com