Player Blog Category Archives: Creative
January 26, 2004
Creative Nomad MuVoČ 4GB $199 and Hackable?
The Creative Nomad MuVoČ 4GB is now only $199 at Amazon, an excellent price for the compact player. However, folks have discovered an easily removable 4GB compact flash MicroDrive under the hood. Since the retail price of a 4GB CF card is much higher, people are buying the MuVoČ just for the drive and reusing it in their space-hungry digital cameras. Of course, all of this is a big YMMV, but some have even been able to put smaller CF cards into the player get to use both the player (with diminished memory) and the 4GB CF.
After 4.5 hours of troubleshooting on Christmas Day, the device was still not detected by my computer. I am an experienced computer user, and still cound not get the device to work with our computer after installing and reinstalling the software, following the troubleshooting instructions at Creative.com, searching/downloading driver/software updates, and testing each USB port (which work with other USB connected devices). Needless to say, my daughter was disappointed with the gift and will be returning it.
Posted by: Nick F at December 25, 2004 08:02 PM