If you or anyone you know is in the market for an mp3 player, please, please, PLEASE do yourself a favor and avoid the iPod as though it were the plague. I've gone through two of these well-marketed devices in two years, both which have turned out to be finicky overpriced pieces of crap. My most recent experience with an iPod nano has turned sour after a yearlong relationship. I fail to understand why a very expensive flash drive with a color screen can suddenly stop working one day, but lo and behold, Apple has put all of my fears to rest and now I am left to shell out another $250 for an mp3 player which, I can assure all good tax paying citizens out there, will not be the spawn of Apple. Apple is the devil. Apple thinks that just because they have their own stores and their cute little iPod that everyone will form like a herd of cattle to buy their products but Apple is just another scam which people fall victim to daily. I was going to buy a Mac after my dinky little PC ran its course but you can rest be assured that I will not be doing so. If anyone knows of any good mp3 players which I can substitute for the shoddy piece of plastic on which I have stored my beloved music for the past year, please let me know.