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... ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Please consider supporting my work on Patreon:   / thisdoesnotcompute   Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).