I had a 20gb ipod which gave up the ghost when my son very kindly stuck a dirty great big magnet on the back, I tried re-installing it and everything but it's totally shagged now.

So after Xmas I picked up a 4gb nano which suits my needs, it has a fantastic battery life compared to my previous one and so lightweight and slim it's a great piece of kit, it even doubles up as a portable flash card for files and photos. Other mp3 players might be cheaper, maybe better in sound quality I don't know but they all suffer poor software from what I hear from friends. I've never had any conflicting issues with Itunes and it's so easy to upload music, organise it, enhance it, tweek it, create playlists/albums etc.

A popular misconception is you have to buy your music from Apple, which is wrong you don't, mine all comes from my albums. But the added bonus is even if you don't have an ipod it's a great way of organising and playing your music on your pc.

Cheers
Mike