With all these newfangled MP3 players that have come out recently, it's hard to decide which one is the best one to pick. Do you want an iPod? Shuffle, Mini, or Nano? Or do you not want an iPod at all? Perhaps a Creative Zen? Or perhaps one of the seemingly hundreds of other types that are floating around there, buried under the avalanche of iPod fans?

I'm not a fan of iPods.

I got an iPod last year. It worked awesomely... until it fell off my desk. Then it stopped working, and made all sorts of clicking sounds. I sent it in to be fixed. They did it for free, since it was still under warranty. Then, one day, it just... stopped.... working. For no reason at all. It would just flash a little picture of an exclamation point and a file folder, and then shut off. I sent it in again, but it wasn't under warranty, so it cost me about $30. Now, it's not working again. The battery runs out after like 15 minutes, it randomly freezes in mid-song or when I try to switch songs, and every now and then, for no reason at all, it decides that it would be fun to delete all the songs I have on it. I went on Apple's website to see how much it would cost to send it in and have it repaired (again).... $272. TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO DOLLARS.

So now, I've got one of those Creative Zen Sleeks (the one I linked to above, 20 GB). It's everything the iPod was, without the tendency to randomly break. The buttons are a bit more touchy than the iPod's were, but other than that, I have no complaints.

So... what do all y'all use, and why? What makes it better than the rest?