Kozak wrote:What is all that cool about 5GB of music? If you have 1 GB it takes some days to listen to them all and you can change your music every day. I think 5GB is silly.
I have 13.14GB of music - that's 3093 tracks, 216:22:14. I like having it all in one device.
@blueskies: I think the problem people have here is that the shuffle isn't "great" or "amazing" or "revolutionary" - it's just a bog-standard run-of-the-mill player that's being pushed once again with Apple's grip on the advertising world. (as tr1p1ea pointed out). When I bought my 30GB Zen Xtra it was £225 - a 15GB iPod would have set me back £255. Compare the audio quality of the players and you'll see that it's a bit silly to spend a huge amount of money on something that's trendy. The iPod isn't a BAD product, and neither is the shuffle - it does have, however, an extraordinary amount of unjustified hype surrounding it.
"With the old player I had to drag and drop what songs I wanted to listen to. You can still do that with the shuffle, but you can also use autofill, which picks random songs from a playlist you make (or your whole library)."
Is that a bit like WMP's Auto Playlists? I'm boring with my player - I've set up Notmad to just make sure that the music library is the same on my PC and on my Xtra. I remember having to select tracks when I had my Soulmate - a 48MB RAM-based player. It only worked with MusicMatch 4 and was awfully slow.
At the end of the day, it's up to you. All I can say is that at my last school 90% of people had iPods when I was there. After I bought my Xtra and showed it to a few people there are now a surprisingly large number of Creative converts.
Oh, and let's not forget - that pinnacle of cool, Mr. William Gates (the 3rd) owns a Zen. Knowing him, he's probably got the whole set
