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Creative Labs CT4760M Sound Blaster Live! MP3+

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Brand Creative
Connectivity Technology USB
Supported Standards MP3
Item Weight 2 Pounds

About this item

  • Turns your PC into a digital MP3 jukebox
  • 5x MP3 acceleration
  • 320 Kbps encoder
  • Listen to MP3 music downloaded from the Internet with full digital sound quality
  • Copies songs from CDs into compact MP3 files for easy storage and access

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Creative Lab's CT4760M Sound Blaster Live! MP3+ soundcard gives your PC the latest recording and playback technology. With a full 320 Kbps encoder and up to 5x MP3 acceleration, you can create digital audio files for use on the Internet or portable MP3 players. The EMU10K1 audio processor provides the power to process audio and effects so you'll get full, rich sound for digital authoring and playback of MP3, WAV, Internet, MIDI, and CD audio. You can also add preset effects for jazz, pop, rock, and more, similar to your home stereo presets.

The Sound Blaster Live! MP3+ is Live!Ware-upgradable so you don't need to replace your soundcard to keep up with the latest standards. Just download software to your reprogrammable EMU10K1 processor to get the latest features and functions, including codecs, LAVA! scenes, and new Environmental Audio effects.

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Take a high quality audio card, add MP3 tools, and you have Sound Blaster Live! MP3+. Everything you'd want to create and organize MP3 files is here in the Creative Digital Audio Center, including a 320Kbps encoder with up to 5X acceleration. On the spine of the card are typical outputs, plus jacks for front- and rear SPDIF output channels for connecting to external digital devices (such as Digital Audio Tape), plus line and rear-out jacks for connecting to speakers.

The board offers the EMU10K1 audio processor and Environmental Audio (an "effects" generator that tweaks audio to make you feel you're listening in a concert hall, for example). The card offers true 16-bit full-duplex operation, with a mixer for combining audio sources (such as CD audio and a microphone). The volume control lets you adjust bass and treble, and you can adjust the balance in both front and rear speakers.

What sets the board apart from its competition is the rich set of software. In addition to the Creative Digital Audio Center, the board is bundled with a trial version of IBM's ViaVoice (for voice-to-text translation), Mixman (for mixing sounds), CakewalkExpress Gold (for creating musical files), and Sound Forge (for editing WAV files) software. The card supports LAVA! (Live Audio Visual Animation), a standard Creative Labs is trying to popularize for Internet music files. LAVA! Authors use templates to combine music, logos, album art, and text - think 3D images synched to audio as a new form of music video on your desktop. It's too soon to know if this form will take off - it's a poor man's MTV - but if it does, you'll be ready.

As with other boards in the Sound Blaster line I've worked with, installation and setup was easy thanks to the well-illustrated user guide.

How's it sound? I played the audio through SoundWorks Digital speakers, a pair of 8-watt black satellite-sized speakers plus an amplified 22-watt subwoofer, a real bargain at $99.95. (Its ability to reproduce sound from any audio signal source with a headphone jack - and handle two such sources - is certainly welcome.) The result was very pleasing to my ears.

We're replacing the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! on our WinList with the Sound Blaster Live MP3+ to keep up with the times and the technology. Plus, at just $99.95, it's some $100 less than the former WinList winner. If you're looking to add high quality sound to your system, this is definitely a great value. Add a pair of SoundWorks Digital speakers and you've got an even better arrangement. -- From Winmag®

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Charlotte Hoffman
4.0 out of 5 stars Great card, but setup confusing
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2000
I've upgraded my computer many times in the past, but I had a few problems with setup this time. First, it was confusing because the drivers for Win98 are designed so that you *don't* install them when Windows prompts you. While the card included a "Quick Setup Guide" that explained this, the main manual didn't. Also, my Gateway has a sound card wired into the motherboard, and this caused a *major* conflict. The manual wasn't really helpful in troubleshooting this problem, either. But once I disabled the other sound card in the system bios the card started working perfectly.
Other than setup, though, the card is working wonderfully. My old card was a SB64, so I wasn't sure how much better the sound would be. It is, however, noticably better. And it gets even better when the environmental audio settings are used.
I do have to agree with some other reviews that some of the software seemed a little silly. The mp3 player/recorder looks great, but I can't seem to get it to play both mp3s and cds, which makes me kinda prefer realjukebox.
Oh, one other thing about the card -- it includes support for multiple cd drives, so I can finally use my second cd drive for playing music. A wonderful advantage if you have two drives.
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SoundFreak
5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FOR THE PRICE
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2000
The difference between the Live! MP3+ and the Live! X-Gamer is the bundled software. If you want a great sound card that supports 4 speaker setups, then this is the one for you. I recommend downloading LiveWare 3.0 if you get this card. It makes audio adjustments for different purposes. If you want to listen to a CD then just click "Listen to CD" or if you want to play an enviromental audio game(such as Half-Life: Opposing Force) then just click "Play EAX game". It is a very good program that really brings out the best in the Live! series of sound cards. By the way, with the Live! series of sound cards you will also notice an increase in frame rates in first person 3D games where there is alot of sound. It' just a GREAT sound card. Everybody I know that has upgraded or built a new system is exceptionally impressed with this card.
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Jesse Roberge
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Sound card. The best features. Uncertified drivers.
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2000
Great Sound card. Awesome features. Acelleration is very noticble with MP3 music (both play and record) as I have slow P233 computer. The environmental audio is way cool and can be completely customize and work whether the game supports it or not (have to configure it to behave that way though). This has the potential to massively boost the bass in both games and music (need different setups as game optimization makes music sound bad) more than any bass system under $1000.
I give it 4 stars becuase the drivers have stability problems with games from Electronic arts (worst with SImCity 3000 unlimited) and both the newest download and the orginal CD drivers are not microsoft certified for directx (which means compatible, but could be buggy or unstable as in the case of EA games - which need picture perfect drivers and hardware to not give you problems).
This card has been rendered obsolete by the sond blaster live value/mp3+/xgamer/plantinum 5.1 cards, with the dolby digital decoder built in (the regular SB lives have dolby pro-logic built in but need external decoder for dolby digital 5.1 channel)
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Dave Lyons
5.0 out of 5 stars Most Bang For The Buck!
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2000
I bought the Soundblaster Live! to replace an onboard sound card that was Direct-Sound "compatible", but not a true Direct Sound card. An audio program that I used frequently did not run reliably with the old sound card. Installing the Soundblaster Live!, made all of the difference. I found the installation process to be simple (be sure to disable your old sound card under "System" in Control Panel before installing the Soundblaster) and the documentation to be adequate. The included software bundle was an added bonus. The audio program I use takes advantage of the extra speaker outputs on the Soundblaster Live! and uses them for a cue channel. I use my PC to record and edit sound files for radio and TV production and I really like the features of the Soundblaster which include a digital output and the rear speaker output as well as the audio quality it produces. I would highly recommend it for anyone with a home recording studio and believe it's a good value.
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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2000
First I thought about buying the Santa Cruz by Turtle Beach but the software bundle wasn't as good as Creatives. So for the great audio and MP3 tools I went with this card. It was very easy to install. I had no problems with it running on Win2k. Another good reason it has Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding and with the DeskTop Theater™ 5.1 DTT2200 the sound is just stunning! I had a little money left so I bought the PC-DVD Encore 12X with Dxr3 technology. That makes it the best thing in the world. Creative has the best products!
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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars The best
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2000
Great card and great prize Thanks "amazon" this soundcard change the whole thing on my computer, the music sound difrent and the cool thing is i can change the way i want to hear the music....one more time i think "creative" is the best.....Now i have to buy new spekers....to bad the new ones are to expesive..but i will wait... one more thing Live mp3+ and platinium are the same the only difrence is the price and a few games....no big deal the prize on this one is amazing
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Vince
5.0 out of 5 stars Generous bundled software
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2001
Sblive MP3 comes with some excellent software for listening and recording music including Cakewalk. It also has a Karaoke program and a voice assist program with an animated Parrot! It's worth it just for the Creative Playcenter and effects. The sound card itself performs very well. It was easy to install and I'm happy I got it.
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