12-26-2002, 06:50 PM
I actually ended up getting the Archos as a gift. I'm not sure what I think about it... certainly not as many features as the Nomad Jukebox I had... but lot's more storage, smaller, and cheaper than it was at the time I got it.
Things I don't like about it:
I have not found a way to queue up albums one after another. I can only play one at a time (Not good for long car rides)
You have to maintain your own file system through file manager. Luckily Musicmatch rips according to artist/album so it maintains a lot of it for you, but in my nomad, you could just rip to disk, and the software that came with it would organize by either album, artist, genre, or by song. This one you have to be a lot more proactive about how you organize and how you transfer that orgainzation to disk.
Not as many features. Basic transport controls, minimal eq, it's basically a hard drive with play/stop/ff/rw buttons on it.
I think I'm gonna use this one for a while, and save for an IPOD and wait for the 20 gigger to come down in price.
My reccomendation would be to get something else.
Things I don't like about it:
I have not found a way to queue up albums one after another. I can only play one at a time (Not good for long car rides)
You have to maintain your own file system through file manager. Luckily Musicmatch rips according to artist/album so it maintains a lot of it for you, but in my nomad, you could just rip to disk, and the software that came with it would organize by either album, artist, genre, or by song. This one you have to be a lot more proactive about how you organize and how you transfer that orgainzation to disk.
Not as many features. Basic transport controls, minimal eq, it's basically a hard drive with play/stop/ff/rw buttons on it.
I think I'm gonna use this one for a while, and save for an IPOD and wait for the 20 gigger to come down in price.
My reccomendation would be to get something else.
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<p align="center">Swing and a miss... and he looked like a dildo. Shake it uuuuuup.</p>
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<p align="center">Swing and a miss... and he looked like a dildo. Shake it uuuuuup.</p>