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Rick Rizner
Creative's $400, 60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra--the flagship model in the company's line of hard-drive-based MP3 players--may look a bit like an old-school Sony Walkman, but at a cost of just under $7 per gigabyte, it's one of the best values among portable MP3 players. By way of comparison, Apple's 20GB IPod goes for the same price but offers one-third the storage.
The Zen Xtra's best asset is a powerful interface for building playlists on the device. As you browse through the Xtra's music library, you can add any artist, album, individual track, or playlist to a queue called Selected...