Fantastic for its time (Creative Jukebox Zen Xtra 30 GB)

Member Name: tinycourageous

Product:	Creative Jukebox Zen Xtra 30 GB
Date:	29/11/08 (23 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: reliability, battery life, capacity

Disadvantages: size, no vista compatibility

This was the first mp3 player I ever owned, about 4 years ago, and it's still going strong. It's an extremely reliable player, although built like a housebrick, so not entirely ideal for using on your travels. However, as a back up device for your music collection it's ideal.
It's made of an attractive brushed metal, with a blue backlit screen. It is very simple to make your own playlists, and you can add as many as you like. It is also very simple to edit playlists, delete tracks off the player etc. The Creative mediasource software is also very simple to use.
This was supplied with a mains charger, USB cables, software and leather pouch as standard. It has a removable battery, and even after 4 years battery life is very good - easily 10 hours of constant use.
Sadly Creative have not provided any support to use this with a Vista machine, which was a real disappointment and has limited its long term use.
However, I would say that for its time it was a quality device, and its reliability is second to none.

Summary: a good reliable buy that is still going strong after 4 years.

Processing/Quality:
Reliability:
Ease of use:
Features:
Sound quality:
Download speed: