For goodness sakes folks, it's a portable, personal, music player that you're paying, at most, a few hundred dollars for

It's so much nicer having a very, very small and lightweight player, with no moving parts, that can be dropped and abused with little worry.

my son's Zen V Plus (a pretty neat little player).4

If you're an average Joe who is looking for a decent media player at a reasonable price, then I would look into this product

Advice - buy as big as you can afford.