Samsung YEPP YP-Z5 (4GB, black)

Pros: The control system for navigating music, the display, the album art, the sound quality, the extremely small gap between songs, very fast

Cons: having to use WMP10 or drag and drop, some album art doesn't show, picture viewing control not as user-friendly as with music browsing

Summary: What a superb player. I have the 4gb and my wife has the 2gb. I have had to do a bit of fiddling around with some of our albums in order to get the album art displayed on the player- but the majority did without any problem. There are at least two albums I have that were ripped from cd, where I used the 'find album info' in WMP10, and had to search for one with album art (the default one it finds sometimes doesn't have)- and even though this album art is displayed properly on WMP10, when transfered to the player it doesn't. I have found that in order for it to be displayed, I must manually drag a 'albumartsmall.jpg' file from the pc folder to the folder on the player, and it then works. Like I said, so far I only seem to have this problem with albums that initially album art is not there when finding album info using WMP10. The majority of the time, WMP10 will find album art no problem though, but still. Anyway, that is the worst niggle I have about using this player. The other niggle I have is when a picture is zoomed in, using the touch-pad is quite hard to navigate around the picture. Luckily, I won't use this feature at all anyway- I wanted a music player, nothing more. I cannot fault it in any other way. Control through the music menus is a breeze, and very intuitive. I like the way you can easily browse your tracks AND controll what you are listening to at the same time. I was a little miffed that the player doesn't have an on-the-go playlist, but after using the player, I can honestly say I don't miss the feature. Why compicate a superb menu control? The display is nice and clear. The album art can be displayed at different sizes (by pressing the touch-pad). I like the way album art is displayed when you are browsing the albums (I am looking forward to this option in WMP11). Wallpaper can be changed to any jpg picture in your picture folders (by pressing and holding the touch-pad with the picture displayed). The sound quality is excellent. I prefer the 'House' equalizer setting, but there are many more to choose- with this many, you don't really need a custom one. I was also disappointed that the player isn't gapless, but not many are. In fact, the gaps between songs are VERY minimal. They don't bother me in the slightest (they did with my Rio Carbon as the gaps were longer on that). Lastly, the player is VERY quick. It takes two seconds to hold the standby button for the player to come on, then you can browse instantly. Songs play instantly after selection. Overall, once the album art feature was perfected for some of my albums, it turned out to be an excellent player.

Updated
Okay, I still have the problem I mentioned before with a few albums not showing album art even though WMP10 does (and I had to move the jpg file over to the player for it to work). But there were also some singles that WMP10 couldn't find album art for at all. I have an answer to this problem:
Okay people- listen up!! Album art isn't a problem now, for anyone! Following on from my earlier post above, I have found out that you can put any picture in an album folder and it will become the album art for that album! All you have to do is follow these strict rules: 1) Don't go overboard with the size- 100x100 pixels is fine 2) The file MUST be labelled 'albumartsmall.jpg'. So, you don't even need WMP10 to find album art if you don't want to. But it does mean you have to make sure that jpg file is in the folder with the music to get the album art. What you can do is still use WMP10 to sync with the player, and if there are any known albums that don't normally display album art, move the jpg file over afterwards. Or if you drag and drop your music, just make sure the jpg file goes over to the player along with the music. Simple. No-one has to be without album art now. (very handy if WMP10 can't find album art, like on a few of my albums and single tracks).