Amazon.co.uk Review
Imagine if you will, a small device slightly bigger and slightly heavier than a portable CD player. Now imagine that rather than hold an album as do some portable MP3 or CD players, that the small device can store over 100 albums. Well that's what Creative has managed to do with the Creative Digital Audio Player Jukebox.
Based around a 6 GB hard drive the Creative Digital Audio Player really lives up to its "Jukebox" name. It offers support in both MP3 and WAV formats, as well as coming with a reprogrammable firmware, which allows the player to adapt to additional digital-audio formats and software that appear as the industry grows.
Putting music on to the system is really easy because the software that installs onto the PC helps you through the ripping/encoding and downloading process. Either rip your present CDs or download music tracks from the internet.
The Jukebox connects to your PC via a USB port on the back, and although it would have been nice to see a Firewire option, the speed that the download offers is still comfortable enough.
With Creative's EAX and 4-channel surround-sound technology, which they use on their Soundcards, this device doesn't struggle to give good-quality sound. And although it is a tad more expensive than you would perhaps expect to pay for a portable MP3 player the extra money is giving you so much more than you'd get from the standard portable MP3 or CD player. --Stuart Miles
