Flist! Advise me!

[active_apathy]

iPolyhymnia is unwell; my 4GB 2nd-generation iPod Nano is having problems holding a charge, and can hold approximately one-eighth of my digital music collection. Consequently, I am planning to buy a new MP3 player.

I'm considering a 16GB 4th-generation iPod Nano 32GB Creative Zen X-Fi, but I am aware that there may be better options. Size (around a happy sort of credit-card gum-packet smaller-than-medium), storage space and battery life are my main concerns, and I have no particular need for PDA features - I like to keep my gadgets somewhat specialised, and may consider buying some kind of smartphone at a later date. So, the new!Nano seems appropriate for my purposes.

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Remember, the future is in... well, my hands, actually. Or, at least, this particular part of the future; it's not like I can say "ADVISE ME WELL, OR DISASTER MAY OR MAY NOT BEFALL YOU AND YOURS! (IT WON'T, BECAUSE THAT WOULD PROBABLY MAKE YOU SAD, BUT ADVISE ME WELL ANYWAY)" with any meaningful menace, even if I didn't care that meaningful menace had a significant yet non-certain risk of making you sad, which I do, so I wouldn't, in all probability.

Um. Yes. Precisely.

ADVISE ME WELL, OR I SHALL CONFUSE YOU A SECOND TIME-A.

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[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I have a set of playlists set up in iTunes to randomly select music, with the selections weighted according to rating. The Sansa has a smaller capacity than I'd like, or at least the ones I can find from vendors here. There's a disturbing lack of Creative on their websites, though they do seem a viable option, and would natively suport my TV collection.

...unless I try Creative's own website, on which the Zen X-Fi looks very nice indeed.