I liked my old mp3 player where I could see song bit rates, drag and drop songs straight from Windows, and set custom equalizers.

Apple made some great decisions with regards to the audio decoding hardware on board - I get all sorts of nasty artifacts on my Archos and Creative players during some songs, but those exact same files play great on the iPod

it's flaws it surpasses all the other MP3 players on the market.

All in all, other players are cheaper and have features lacking here like FM reception.

I received my new IPOD 40gb player about 3 weeks ago, it is a great looking player, very compact in size, and it sounds great.

There are many better players at comparable prices with 20GB or greater harddrive

I was anticipating the best MP3 player ever, because Apple lovers loved their iPods

This is a good music player and looks pretty nice

In the meantime, let me say that the absolute best MP3 player I have owned is the much cheaper Creative Nomad Jukebox 2LX 20 GB unit that I purchased at WalMart

The iPod is, hands down, the coolest player out there

Within 6 months it acted up, making me do the ridiculous R method of resetting it over and again.

I have no warrenty now, so i'm stuck trying to restore, restart, and all those other crappy "R" fixes that they have that don't work