For Father's day I got a Creative Zen Micro. I had been looking at the Creative products and was ready to pull the trigger on a 30G model, but the wife beat me to it.
Let me say this. How did people live with out having 2000 songs in their pocket? Fortunately, I'd been ripping songs to my PC for a couple of years, so most of the good stuff from my CD collection was on my PC and ready to go. HOnestly it only took a couple of hours to get 1300 songs on my Zen. But these songs were MP3s at 128kps. So, I did so more research and figured I could convert songs to WMA at a lower bitrate and have more songs. So, I used Creative's software to convert over 1850 songs to WMA at 80kps. HOnestly I can't hear the difference and all the audio snobs who tell you your MP3 player should have songs at 160kps or higher and in MP3 are nuts.
You might be able to tell the difference with $300 headphones in a sound proof room, but that's not the reality of listening to your MP3 player.
I can tell you though that with the Creative stock ear buds (which I hate and just bought some mediocre Sennheiser phones from amazon the other day) at 80kps WMA I'm hearing instruments I've never heard before.
Anyway, along with TiVo and Netflix, the multigig MP3 player are the three greatest products of the 21st century.
I can't wait until all our computers are Zen (or iPod) sized devices with Internet access, phone, full MS office sweet all for about $400. Probably about 5 years
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