Overall, I recommend this device for its convenient size, simplicty and amazing sound, barring a few minor annoyances with the clip and hit or miss assembly quality.

trickier:_______________________________________Please see the review below by TECK13 for some technical details on this latest Shuffle (including his mention of the outstanding audio quality and reference to the detailed internet review on iLounge, which really opened my eyes to Shuffle quality with good earphones).On the basis of his encouraging remarks, I got my own Shuffle, and it's one of the best $50 I've spent

I've run about 100 km with shuffle and it is great device, great sound quality, easy to make your own play list, the buttery live is very long and it is so light so you can clip it on your shirt

I could be mistaken, but so far, the audio quality sounds worse than my 1st and 2nd gen shuffle

It is compact, easy to use, excellent quality sound, portable and the best, its price.

It is extremely easy to use, the sound quality is fantastic and the battery holds up well.

Basic, durable, great sound quality.

They don't stay in your ears if you're doing any sort of activity and the audio quality is not great, it's pretty much a given that you're going to upgrade them to something better.

why I'm now after a year considering something with better audio quality.

Excellent piece, very good quality works perfect one of improves them of the series, 100% recommended, does not have comparison

Sound quality is very good with my Sennheiser sport buds, and even better with my Bose headphones.

the size is mind boggling small.. the sound quality is good

I love apple products, always the best quality and warranty, I know are a lot of mp3 players everywhere and cheaper than ipod but the warrantu is the big difference...

The shuffle is great for working out, walking or working where background is more important than top notch audiophile quality hardware.

The two stars came because the sound quality was good enough to keep it from a single star.

Overall, it is extremely simple and easy to use, great qualities for such a technological titan

Sound quality is absolutely astounding for a player this small!

The touch obviously has the best quality and I have read somewhere that the new Nano has better quality than the ipod touch 3rd gen which makes it a good buy too

Headphones are good quality, albeit short, like they're made for clipping to nothing below the shirt

Also, the headphones were extremely poor quality

Good sounds when used with good quality headphones.

Excellent build quality.

For me it has excellent battery life and contrary to some of the comments, the earphones have excellent quality for the very low price of the item

Very easy to uses and gives you great sound quality

There are far too may good quality products out there for me to follow the pack and buy

, however I've realized how much better sound quality is from cds, and it's made me realize how obsessive I really am about audio quality.

The sound quality is outstanding and the battery life is longer thsn expected

The sound quality is very good, it is small enough to clip onto my collar and it is very easy to load songs onto it

I also found the sound quality a bit better as well.

Just sound quality is good, but battery backup is worse than 3rd generation

There is an excellent and comprehensive review at iLounge that goes into some detail regarding the sound quality.

The sound quality is excellent, the battery lasts forever, and the memory capacity is great

Battery life is great and music quality also

The sound quality is terrific for such a small gadget

Ppl seem to forget that yea u can buy a sansa 4gb for the same price but apple is like the sony of music, and the more you pay the better quality the product is

And did I mention the sound quality is excellent? :-)

Sound quality is good and the battery last long enough for a week's worth of workouts (I haven't had it run

And the SOUND QUALITY is so phenomenal and the size so small - no screen to scratch, 15 hours of battery life

Apple FAIL.Music Quality is horrible when used with my 300 dollar Shure earbud

But it's smaller/lighter, more elegant, higher quality and probably sounds better.

I work as a

Yes, a consume good, but visually, tactile-y, superb