Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra (60GB)

Pros: Large capacity; replaceable battery; awesome sound

Cons: none for me personally

Summary: First of all, you need to know how you plan to use an MP3 player. If you want to jog or work out, get a flash-based player, not a hard-drive player. If you have a small MP3 collection, get a 5GB unit. BUT, if you have a large MP3 collection (mine is approx. 6700 tracks) covering a wide variety of musical genres and you want to be able to shuffle them all or within groupings of your choice, and you want them to sound good coming through your car or home stereo, GET THIS UNIT! Don't follow the herd and pay twice as much for a "hip" iPod that holds fewer tracks!!! I now have 4 different MP3 players (one flash-based for exercise, one cheapo 20GB player for mowing the lawn, and two Zen Xtras, a 30 GB and a 60 GB, the first one in the car and the second one connected to my home stereo and holding secondary back-ups of important computer files), and I bought another Zen Xtra because of the versatility, capacity, replaceable battery, and, of course SOUND QUALITY! Although all technology is prone to failure, it is hard to be disappointed by these players.