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==Nomad Jukebox Zen==
{{main|Creative Zen}}
[[File:Nomad.jpg|thumb|The Nomad Jukebox runs on four [[Battery (electricity)|AA batteries]] and has a 6 [[Gigabyte|GB]] [[hard drive]].]]
[[File:Creative Nomad Jukebox 2.jpg|thumb|NOMAD Jukebox 2]]
Later NOMAD Jukeboxes used Creative's own firmware. Most players use Texas Instruments [[Texas Instruments TMS320|TMS320DA25x]] [[ARM architecture|ARM]] plus [[digital signal processor]] as their CPU and support some version of Creative's [[Environmental audio extensions|environmental audio extensions (EAX)]]. It beat Apple Computer's hard drive music player "iPod" to market by about a year.

The Nomad Jukeboxes have varied in their use of connections. The Jukebox 3 and Jukebox Zen were unusual in their use of the older USB 1.1 standard despite their predecessor, the Nomad Jukebox 2, having used the newer USB 2.0 standard. Part of the reason for this was the inclusion of a [[FireWire]] connection, which is of comparable speed to USB 2.0.

[[File:CreativeNomadZenNxXtra.JPG|thumb|NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra (60GB)]]
[[File:NomadNenNxBattery.jpg|thumb|NOMAD Jukebox Zen players feature easily replaceable batteries]]

'''[[Universal Serial Bus|USB]] 1.1 connection'''
*''Creative Nomad Jukebox'' (''Creative Digital Audio Player'' in [[Europe]])
*''Creative Nomad Jukebox 3'' (also features a FireWire connection)
*[[Creative Zen#Nomad Jukebox Zen|''Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen'']] (also features a FireWire connection)

'''[[Universal Serial Bus|USB]] 2.0 connection'''
*''Creative Nomad Jukebox 2''
*[[Creative Zen#Nomad Jukebox Zen|''Creative NomadJukebox Zen USB 2.0'']]
*[[Creative Zen#Nomad Jukebox Zen NX|''Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen NX'']]
*[[Creative Zen#Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra|''Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra'']]

A variant of the Nomad Jukebox was also sold as an [[Original equipment manufacturer|OEM]] product by [[Dell Computer|Dell]] under the name ''[[Dell Digital Jukebox]] (Dell DJ)'', a USB 2.0 device. The ''Second Generation Dell DJ'' and ''Dell Pocket DJ 5'' are also OEM products from Creative.

The Nomad Jukebox shipped in the U.S. in September 2000. By January 2001, Creative reported that it had sold 100,000 units.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://phys.org/news/2005-08-creative-awarded-patent-user-interface.amp | title=Creative Awarded U.S. Patent on User Interface for Portable Media Players }}</ref>

Future versions in the Creative ZEN line exclusively use Microsoft's ''[[Media Transfer Protocol]]'' (also known as ''[[PlaysForSure]]''), and some legacy devices have been supplied with firmware upgrades to support MTP. The first Nomad player and the first Nomad Jukebox use proprietary protocols, neither PDE or MTP.