The NOMAD was a range of digital audio players designed and sold by Creative Technology Limited, and later discontinued in 2004. Subsequent players now fall exclusively under the MuVo and ZEN brands.

The NOMAD series consisted of two distinct brands:

Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen NX Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra A variant of the NOMAD Jukebox was also sold as an OEM product by Dell under the name Dell Digital Jukebox (Dell DJ), a USB 2.0 device. The Nomad Jukebox File system njbfs is a Linux file system for the Creative Nomad Jukebox. Using automount capability, you can 'cd' to your Nomad Jukebox, read and write tracks, and even ordinary files can be stored on your.

NOMAD (and later NOMAD MuVo) - Players that use flash memory. This brand eventually became the MuVo line.
NOMAD Jukebox - Players that use microdrives. The brand evolved into the ZEN line.

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NOMAD and NOMAD MuVo[edit]

The Nomad II runs off one AA battery and uses SmartMedia memory cards.

These 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.

Creative's foray into the MP3 player market began with the Creative NOMAD, a rebranded Samsung ElectronicsYepp YP-D40 player with 64 megabytes of solid-state memory.

IEEE 1284Parallel port connection

Creative NOMAD

USB 1.1 connection

Creative NOMAD II - Included FM radio and 64MB of memory via bundled Smart Media card. No internal memory.
Creative NOMAD IIc - Same appearance as Nomad II, but with no FM radio and 64MB or 128MB internal memory.
Creative NOMAD II MG
Creative NOMAD MuVo
Creative NOMAD MuVo NX

USB 2.0 connection

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[edit]

The Nomad Jukebox runs on four AA batteries and has a 6 GBhard drive.

NOMAD Jukebox 2

The first NOMAD Jukebox used the OASiS operating system, which was developed in India. Later NOMAD Jukeboxes used Creative's own firmware. Most players use Texas Instruments TMS320DA25xARM plus digital signal processor as their CPU and support some version of Creative's environmental audio extensions (EAX).

The NOMAD Jukeboxes have varied in their use of connections. The 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.

NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra (60GB)

NOMAD Jukebox Zen players feature easily replaceable batteries

USB 1.1 connection

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)

USB 2.0 connection

Creative NOMAD Jukebox 2

A variant of the NOMAD Jukebox was 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.

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.

Related software[edit]

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.

For early models

The NOMAD Manager Project is a program to control the original NOMAD player under Linux

The Nomad II Linux USB driver - for using the Nomad II under Linux

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) did for Microsoft Windows

Apple's iTunes [1] is also capable of controlling the Nomad Jukebox.

Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Nx

Notmad Explorer by Red Chair Software is a (now defunct) jukebox management program for Microsoft Windows. The program was 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 SQLdatabase

Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra Driver

External links[edit]

Nomad Jukebox Software

We Test Drive the Creative Nomad Jukebox - November 2000 MP3 Newswire review of Creative's Nomad Jukebox
Sharky Extreme Nomad Review October 2000 - Nomad Jukebox Review

Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra

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