SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ MP3 (blue, 8GB)

Pros: It's cheap enough. Long battery life. And the memory expansion slot was a nice thought, but I never wound up using it.

Cons: The controls are a joke, and the USB miniport crapped out on me.

Summary: This thing was never ending frustration for me. As many of the other customer reviews have related, the controls go from being completely unresponsive one moment to overly sensitive the next. I had it for just over a year, and was never able to figure out it's quirks. The menu system was cumbersome, but got a little better with firmware updates. The final straw was the USB miniport falling apart on me. I didn't even use the port that often, but after a while the cable wouldn't sit snugly inside, so I'd have to gingerly connect it then not touch the player while it was charging or uploading files. Finally the port simply quit working, rendering the otherwise working device completely useless. Well, I guess there's that extra memory slot I could use until the battery runs down for the final time. My next player, which I'm buying tomorrow, will definitely be something else.