Creative Nomad Jukebox 2 Manual

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CHARGING THE BATTERY
The high performance Li-ion battery supplied with your player needs to be fully 
charged before you use it. Your player’s built-in battery charger will fully charge 
the battery (in approximately 4 hours) to obtain the maximum playback time. 
Subsequent recharging should take 1-3 hours typically.
To charge your player’s battery:
1. Connect your player to a power outlet.
Your player will turn itself on.
2. Check the battery icon to see when the battery is fully charged.
DC...

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Power Source 
and Level 
IndicatorsYour player displays one of the following icons, depending on the battery’s 
charged status or the power source (battery or electrical power).
IconWhat the icon meansNotes
❍your player is running from electrical 
power only
❍your player is running from battery power 
only❍this battery state icon shows that 
the battery is fully charged
❍your player’s battery is good for 
approximately 12 hours of continuous 
playback
❍your player’s battery is good for...

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INSTALLING SOFTWARE
Your NOMAD Jukebox 2 comes with software that helps you create audio 
tracks, manage your music library and use your player. 
1. Make sure that your player is not connected to your computer.
2. Insert the Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive.
3. The disc supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running 
automatically. If not, you need to enable your CD-ROM drives auto-insert 
notification feature. For more details, see AutoPlay on page C-1.
4. Select your preferred language....

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CONNECTING YOUR PLAYER TO YOUR COMPUTER
You are now ready to connect your player to your computer. Your NOMAD 
Jukebox 2 comes with a USB 2.0 cable for fast data transfers to and from your 
computer. Be sure that you have installed PlayCenter before connecting your 
player.
After you have 
connected your player 
to your computer, go 
through the NOMAD 
Jukebox 2 Interactive 
Tutorial found on your 
Installation CD! 

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TRANSFERRING MUSIC
Audio selections have been preloaded to the Playing List to get you started 
quickly. If you wish to listen to music immediately, simply press the PLAY
 
button . 
If, however, you wish to download additional music tracks to your player, you 
can either download music tracks from Internet music sites or have them 
ripped from audio CDs to your computer. 
They must, however, be encoded into the supported formats (MP3 or WMA file 
formats), then transferred to your player with the...

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Downloading 
music from the 
internetTo get MP3 files from the Internet, use a search engine to locate sites with MP3 
content. You can also try out these sites (web sites listed here are correct at 
the time of this document’s release):
Follow the instructions on the site and download the music files to your 
computer.
Ripping content 
from a CDThe first phase in making an MP3 file is extracting audio data from an audio 
CD. To extract audio data, you will need a CD-ROM drive that can extract...

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Encoding is the second phase of making an MP3 file. Encoders are used to 
convert the stored audio tracks, usually WAV files, into MP3 files. MP3 
encoding is considered lossy compression, which means that some data is lost 
during compression. However, using the standard sampling rates and bitrates 
will ensure that your MP3 files retain much of their audio quality. The standard 
bitrate of most MP3 files is 128 Kbps, although some are set higher, at 160 or 
192 Kbps. Higher bitrates will result in...

3
Playing and Managing Your Music
  

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PLAYING MUSIC
Basic Music 
PlaybackTo play audio, you can add audio selections from the NOMAD Jukebox 2s 
Music Library to the player’s playing list as described in Adding Music Tracks 
from the Music Library to the Playing List on page 3-14, then play back the 
entire playing list. 
Audio selections have been preloaded to the playing list to get you started 
quickly.
Viewing the 
playing listFollow these steps to play the playing list .
1. Press the PLAY
 button  . 
The Play
 icon   appears...

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3. Press the NOW PLAYING
 button again to display the Playing Track
 
screen, which shows the track that is being played back or the track that 
has been selected. The upper-left corner of the screen will display the 
Playing Track
 icon.
Play ModesYour player has Play Modes that allow you to change how your playing list is 
played back. 
The following Play Modes are available:
❍Repeat track
❍Repeat all
❍Shuffle 
❍Shuffle repeat
❍Track once
❍Normal
Play Modes are disabled by enabling Normal mode as...