Creative Lab's Nomad Muvo2 4GB - Hitting the Mark Right Below Massive Storage
by Andrew Ku on May 25, 2004 3:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Creative's Muvo2 - Windows Support
When plugged in, Windows XP identifies Muvo2 as a removable drive labeled "Muvo2." It functions like any other removable drive; granted, most removable storage devices don't exceed a norm of 256MB these days.
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Creative supplies their own media player/organizer called "MediaSource" that helps organize your MP3 collection in tandem with what you want on your Muvo2. We found this program to be the preferred choice of organization for the Muvo2, though the only other real option is Windows Media Player.
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Playlists can be created and organized within MediaSource, and we found ourselves spending quite a bit of time here because playlists also allows for playing priority. The only problem we found was that playlists were a bit hard to use. We had to select and open a playlist and drop entire folders in from the left side to add them to the playlist. To get individual files into the playlist, we ended up having to open a separate window and drag and drop them from the Windows file browsing window.
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When writing to the Muvo2, there is an animated image of an oscillating frequency towards the Muvo2 to indicate the direction of the write action.
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Foxbat121 - Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - link
XRaider - Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - link
Ok, what's the battery life on this model?Koing - Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - link
Imo the $50 difference between the Muvo2 and the iPod Mini isn't much even on a cash strapped budget. It would be worth saving up for imo. I always do this with stuff.The only problems I see is that the remote on any of the iPods to be quite frank is 'crap'. It is definately no MD remote. And the length of the headphone wires? Rubbish.
How is the length of the Muvo2 headphone wires with remote? I can't stand the length on my iPod.
Koing
madgonad - Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - link
Odd they never mentioned the fact that this $200 player houses a 4GB microdrive that retails for more than twice that price. I'm happy with my Muvo2, but I imagine eventually the drive will find its way to my camera.yanon - Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - link
The Muvo2 design engineers should consider adding voice recording function to it. This would be great for people who would want to use it as an recording device. it will probably only cost them $10 more to add this feature but they can claim this is a 3-in-one (mp3, voice recording, and data storage) player.