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Spinless:
That last point you made about user reviews, that's what made me settle on an iPod. Sure, you hear about them breaking all the time. But when you read user reviews and compare the positive to negative noise ratio, 50 bad reviews isn't really a bad number out of say, 500 reviews posted. When you compare that to products like the creative Zen where the percentage of negative feedback is MUCH higher.

DavidGrohl:
 I would have chosen anything over an iPod.  Gah, another one bites the dust. 

Intense Fuzziocity:
Most people like their iPods, so if you really have no clue what you want then it's usually a safe -- albeit expensive -- choice. (If lyou're an xkcd type of guy, it will also give you at least 20 hours of fun if you attempt to install linux on it).

I don't have any real fresh personal experience with mp3 players, but from the experience I do have I would have to say that it's not important to get a new mp3 player. The old iAudio players have great sound quality, especially with an amp, perhaps better than most more recent players. The audio player arena has not been advancing toward better sound quality and broader file type support; the only fields where definite progress has been made has been storage affordability, GUIs, and physical size.

Of the modern audio players, however, my recommendation is one of the SanDisk Sansa players. Less expensive than iPods, more standardized computer interfacing, expandable with most SanDisk memory cards (gotta love those 8GB fingernails), and support a fair number of file types.

Whichever player you get, though, and the sound quality isn't perfect, it might be worth investing in an amp and good earphones or plugs.

If you're in the market for a mobile phone at the same time, you could also keep an eye out for one with a standard audio jack and good expandability. It could very well save you quite a bit of money.

Teh Geek Lord:
I have an older 30Gb ipod, its beat to hell, but it still plays my music just fine, and before that I got (and still have) a sony walkman memory stick (USB) mg3 player, it holds 2 gb of music but that one never let me down, until I found torrents and got music crazy fast...then the 2gb barrier came into play...not I've got to find a replacement for the 30gb ipod, and never will I own a Zune...

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