Creative Nomad Jukebox: The iPod Before the iPod

Portable MP3 players have been around since the late 1990s, but didn't really gain traction until the turn of the millennium. Let's check out -- and take apart -- one of the best hard drive-based players from the time before the iPod.

Sources:

PC Magazine, January 2001.
Maximum PC magazine, March 2001.
RioVolt CD player photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nic221/...
Panasonic CD player photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Maximum PC magazine, February 2001.
Kozmo catalog image:   / i-call-this-kozmo-com-catalog-spring-2001  
Nomad Jukebox box contents photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-RARE...
AnandTech article about hard drive filesystem: https://www.anandtech.com/show/803/5
Nomad Jukebox 3 photos: https://prisguiden.no/produkt/creativ...

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Music by
Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).