It's so annoying when people think that iPods are different from MP3 players! Anyway. I have a Creative Zen Micro and it works fine. I love it. MP3 players rule But I have to agree with Turn Off The Light; you should check out all your options before you buy!

I have an orite 512mb mp3 player (ordered it from the internet) and love it, dont know how I lived without one! I don't like iPods very much, the 512mb Shuffle is vastly overpriced at £70 (around $121)

i like MP3 players and all, but personally i think they cost a little more than what i would pay for one of them, for me ill just stick with the good ole CD players for now..making my own CD's its all good for me..maybe when the prices go down ill buy one..but first ill buy a laptop and use it for school...lol but thats off topic

Well I don't particularly care for Ipods either because I feel that they have way more features than what I would ever need or want to use, but I still end up paying for it. But I know a number of people that had Creative Zen's and they broke after a drop or two... they would turn on but would not be able to read anything from the memory.

I personally used to have a Nike Rio 32 mb hehe when mp3's were a little newer. I now just use a Sony Minidisc player that can hold 1 GB of data and convert mp3's to the atrac (what minidisc players use) and I find that it is pretty much everything I need in a mp3 player or music player in general I guess because it stores a lot of music (i still haven't filled an entire minidisc yet) and the size is reasonable (the reason why I no long want to get a CD player or CD MP3 player). Only bad thing I can think of about my minidisc player is the fact that the LCD screen isn't backlit so when I use it at night it can be hard to read it if for some reason I need to.