Don't tell my wife, but I just got an Archos 6000 MP3 player, which doubles as a 6 gig hardrive (for the truly geeky, you can convert it to 20 gig!).
It is an excellent piece of gear and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone. I am sure there will be more of the same on the market in short-order and that this won't compete with a Sony for quality, but its a great way of holding 1500 tracks???, or for moving large files between multiple computers (what I will tell my wife I use it for!
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