Recommendations about mp3 players that are not iPods?
The iPhone!
The iPad!
Sony Walkmen are good if you don't want something absurdly huge storage wise (I can store My entire library on my player..and I only listen to a tenth of it) Zune is shaping up to be a nice player that has the same space sizes as the iPod but in my option is just looks better.
Cowon S9
I wouldn't recommend an iPod anyway. I hate the way it sorts music.
http://www.mp4nation.net/catalog/The S:Flo2 is a rebrand of about the finest portable digital music player you can get and it's comparatively cheaper than iPods and Cowons. If you're skeptical, look it up on Head-Fi, big audiophile forum. And I can personally vouch for MP4 Nation being legit and having good customer service, even if the site looks amateur.
First off, go here.http://www.anythingbutipod.com/I've been loving the Cowon iAudio 7 for the past year or so. The main reason I like it is because it has the native ability to browse my music by folders instead of ID3 tags. I hate tagging my music, it's a waste of my time.The player also supports quite a few formats, mp3, wav, wmv, ogg...no m4a unfortunately. I've been frustrated a few times - friend shares an album with me, I put it on my player without checking the file extensions beforehand, and then learn I can't play any of the songs.The player isn't for everyone. The main controls are touch sensitive rather than tactile (I prefer tactile buttons). Both my husband and I got the same player - for some reason my player requires an occasional reset because the forward button gets "stuck" as if my finger was held on it when in fact nothing is touching it.The controls are also not as intuitive as I'd like, but once you get past learning the controls it isn't bad at all. It can display images and play videos, but don't expect great things. This should be used purely for music playing.Really though, it's all about what features are important to you.
>>1730>Listen to a song by Trail of Dead>comes another song by Trail of Dead from the Same Album>another track, skip it, skip another one>ANOTHER TRAIL OF DEAD SONG