| I have owned the extigy for well over a year now and I must say I am very happy with it. I use it on a COMPAQ PRESARIO windows xp desktop along with Creative Inspire 5.1 speakers. I have used the Creative Recorder Utility to record scores of albums from my casette tapes and even from free streaming Mp3s available in the web. The Creative play center is not intuitive at all to use. It is a pain to keep the media library updated as my MP3 collection grew or shrunk.(specially since most of us store our mp3 collections in distinct sub-folders which the play center does not automatically recognize) Windows Media Player was easier to use. But Creative Play Center had two uses for me: 1. It saved me the trouble of buying an mp3 codec to Windows media player. I could convert wav files into mp3.
2. It allowed me to access the mp3 media library using the included Remote control. Speaking of remote control, it is a handy thing but the remote control interface in the computer needs much to be desired. I use a Belkins USB 1.1 Hub in my setup and have not thus far encountered any bandwidth limitation that we hear about in the other reviews. Also bundled is a basic wave editor and a minidisc center. Havent used either to comment on their performance. Wish they could improve the creative play center and the remote control interface. These are small glitches in an otherwise impressive product. | .jpg)
