This download contains an improved version of the drivers found on the Creative ZEN and Jukebox installation CD. It provides Unicode support. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

To check your player's firmware version number, see Notes below.

Added Features or Enhancements:

• Provides Unicode support, enabling you to view your firmware in additional languages

Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Media Center Edition 2005, Windows XP or Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or higher)
• Creative ZEN, Jukebox ZEN NX, Jukebox ZEN USB 2.0 or NOMAD Jukebox 2/3/ZEN
  OR
  Player with firmware below 2.00.00: Creative ZEN Sleek, ZEN Micro, ZEN Touch, NOMAD Jukebox ZEN Xtra

Notes:

• To check your player's firmware version number:
  1. Turn on your player.
  2. From the main menu, select System -> Information.
     For NOMAD Jukebox ZEN Xtra, select Settings -> About.
  3. The firmware version number is indicated under "Version".
• To install this download, do the following:
  1. Download the JB3MV2_PCWDRV_US_2_01_00.EXE file into your local hard disk.
  2. Double-click the downloaded file and follow the instructions on the screen.

This driver update provides full support for Windows Media Player 9 (Standard format) and Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition, and faster FireWire (IEEE 1394) transfer speed in Windows XP.

Fixes:

Added Features:

Fixes:

This is the latest NOMAD® Jukebox Zen USB 2.0 firmware (version 1.11.01) for users with computers running Windows® XP, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium, or Windows 98SE.

Firmware Enhancements:

• Adds support for up to 16,000 songs
• Enables autoscrolling of track titles when the player is idle
• Adds a Time & Date display
• Allows continuous recording past the 10 hour mark with Wired Remote if sufficient hard disk space is available
• Adds the Selected Music option to the main menu
• Displays queued playlists as groups rather than flat lists in the Selected Music screen
• Adds the Play any track option to the Music Library menu
• Adds the Reset Settings option to the Settings menu
• Adds a new skin for the Now Playing screen
• Adds a new Profiles feature

Fixes:

• Resolves previously encountered issue where the player stops responding after USB charging is completed
• Supports WMA9 VBR songs with bitrates higher than 200kbps

Requirements:

• Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium or Windows 98SE
• Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen USB 2.0
• USB port (version 1.1 or above)

Notes:

• To install this firmware:

1. Download and extract the firmware by executing (JBZen2PCFW_1_11_01.exe) on your computer.
2. Be sure that you have connected the power adapter
   to your player.
3. Attach your player to your computer.
4. Close all other software applications.
5. Click the Zen(USB2.0)Upgrade_1_11_01.exe file. Follow the onscreen instructions.
6. When Windows informs you that the player is detected, click the Upgrade button.
7. When the "Player is now rebooting" message appears on your computer, and the "Please Reset Player" message appears on your player's screen, your player will automatically reset itself.
8. Click the Close button.
9. Detach your player from your computer.

• This firmware does not work with NOMAD Jukebox Zen USB1.1/1394.
  To download the firmware for NOMAD Jukebox Zen USB1.1/1394, please click here.

This update addresses a security vulnerability that Creative users face when using Gracenote© services like MusicID™ (formerly known as CDDB™). For more details, read the rest of this web release note. You must already have one of the following applications listed in Requirements below on your computer to perform this update successfully.

Fixes

• Secures your computer against the vulnerability caused by using some Gracenote services with a Creative application.

Requirements

Creative NOMAD Explorer enables you to conveniently manage your NOMAD player's music and data library with Microsoft® Windows® Explorer.

You can use Creative NOMAD Explorer to:

• drag and drop songs and data files between your computer and NOMAD player
• manage songs in your NOMAD player's music library
• manage data files in your NOMAD player's data library
• create and edit playlists on your NOMAD player
• edit track properties in your NOMAD player's music library

After installing Creative NOMAD Explorer, you can find the NOMAD Explorer icon in Windows Explorer, under My Computer.

Requirements

• Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition or Windows 98 Second Edition
• Creative NOMAD Jukebox 2, 3, Zen, Zen USB2.0, Zen NX, Zen Xtra or Zen Touch
• For NOMAD Jukebox 3 users only, driver version 1.04.06 (JB3_Drv.exe, dated 27 Aug 2002, 935 928 bytes) or later installed on your computer

Note

• Creative NOMAD Explorer replaces Creative File Manager Version 1 and 2.