Once that happens, the player stops working correctly.

All in all this Shuffle is not a workable music player, and not up to Apple's stunningly good design standards for its other consumer electronics..

Why buy the Apple's cheapest mp3 player

Do $20 Sony portable CD players have $150 Shure headphones included

It was the absolute best player I've ever owned.

But judging from what I've been hearing from many other users of the shuffle, there is inherently a design flaw in the headset -- it clearly doesn't handle amounts of moisture/perspiration you would expect for people working out with the device, which is arguably one of the very purposes of making such a small, portable player