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This device was one of the worst for me. A former girlfriend of mine got one of those for Christmas from her dad.

First problem - we didn't had any Mac or Windows at home. So no iTunes. But that's an iPod problem in general. Her dad didn't know this / didn't think of it.

I've tried to use the device - but it was unusable for everything we wanted to use it. She didn't like it for music - too little space (1GB), no full albums, just a Playlist (which was pretty hard to update if you don't use iTunes). Listening to music didn't work for me too (I like listening to whole albums). So I've tried to listen to Podcasts (30 minutes to 1 hour) with it. Didn't know where in the podcast I am, fast forward for 15 minutes was cumbersome.

Didn't work for me at all. It was small, it was robust, but it didn't fit any of our requirements.

You can fit about 10 albums in 1GB

You can. But I've put about 30 albums on my phone and I have little internal space, so I just put a "small list" on it.

But for what it is worth 1 GB may be fine. Handling 30 albums would be a nightmare with the Shuffle.

It works (as the name says) if you want to listen to a playlist in shuffle. But for me (and my ex) it didn't work for anything else. So we both found out we didn't had any use for this device.

The later model had 2 GB and had playlist functionality. I had both the 1GB 'continuous playlist' model, loved it it was perfect for mix-tapes, it also loaded albums with the songs in order, so yes there was a lot of skipping to get past an album, but not a problem. The 2GB model if you held down the "f-key" on the top read out the names of playlists ,ie albums, and let you press skip to cycle through them.

It seems to work really nice for you.

For me it was definitely the wrong device. I don't have any use for this device at all. The "reading out the names" sounds incredible kludgy for me.

To everything his own. I just wanted to share my experiences with the device.

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