you might want to read this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3764981/

I've never owned anything that was expressly designed to play compressed-format music. These days I feel tempted to get a cd/mp3 deck for my car, but that's about it. 10 years ago I would have loved something like this, these days, I could see using it at the gym but that's about it.

-jar-