Have you looked into a Samsung? I’ve always heard great things about them. Check it out:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8571315&type=product&id=1188562603795
Some of the customer reviews are from people who had Zunes first and liked the Samsung better.
What is your budget?
Bought a 30gig Zune.
Will report back with findings.
[enters lab]
hmm this could be an option for me. I was thinking last night that I really should have some kind of music-playing device since spring is coming and I’ll be walking and riding my bike around more. My last one was a cd player walkman which of course broke down…thats how out of touch I am with today’s technology.
and I’m too cool to follow the crowd and get an I-pod so this could be cool.
Definitely report back Will…I think you and I are sort of on the same page here in what we’re looking for.
^Ohhhhhh, now he’s good enough for one!
A few weeks ago he was all about the CD player in the car, now the tune is changing…
someone recently told me to “get with it” and that seemed to make sense to me, so yeah. I’m not ashamed.
OK, I had 2 DVDs of studio albums backed up, and they are now on the ole Zune.
I like this thing a lot so far.
Trying to figure out how to delete the crap that came pre-loaded.
Some interesting videos. The screen/view is crystal clear. Really great movies loaded in about “extreme” mountain biking, snowboarding, and a skateboarding tour through NYC.
nice, i recently got a Scandisk Sansa, works on flashed based memory, now hard drives to crash. plus it has the microSD expandable memory slot so i can get a bunch of microSD cards if i choose and put diff bands on diff cards
So far, I love this thing.
Was a little tricky going in the beginning trying to figure out a couple of things, but everything is running smoothly so far.
Video looks great, FM comes in crystal clear, and I have about 200 albums I haven’t listened to in a while loaded up.
Let me just see how it works during work…
I seriously hate in-the-ear style head phones. They don’t work for me. Or do they constantly fall out for everyone else?
I think it may because I have a case of the attached earlobes… or maybe my brain is so big and full of knowledge it keeps pushing them out.
One of those, no doubt.
I can’t ever get those things to stay in my ears either. Congrats on the new MP3 player Will. I’m still a bit Mp3phobic, but I’m sure in the next couple of years I’ll cave and buy a decent Mp3 player.
Will, what type of in-ears do you use?
There are two types, the iPod type ones, which fucking suck, and then the noise canceling in-ears that own face. They have the rubber piece on the end of them, and come with different size rubber ends to fit your ears.
Here are the ones I have, and I love them, I have about 4 pairs of them:
Skull Candy, Smokin’ Buds, Marc Frank Montoya’s company of awesome snow and skate shit…
http://www.skullcandy.com/shop/smokinbuds-p-10.html?zenid=54e24d73e1af1eb61c4186e3977be7da
Yep, exactly. I have those same noise-canceling ones with the different sized rubber pieces. I use those when I’m running on the treadmill and they work great. They stay in 99% of the time.
I have the ones that came with the Zune, 
Definitely not the ones you have… I am guessing these are the “iPod ones”.
just ordered these.thanks for the link i really needed to buy these for work.
when i work with machines i will be able to hear still.i was using the ipod ones which sound good but not during work ;D
i use the nano works perfect cause it so small.
The noise cancelling ones are awesome if you get them to fit. Like was mentioned above, they come with different fittings usually so should fit pretty much everyone.
I got a pair of Sennheiser CX300’s, pretty cheap and sound great. Glad you are enjoying your creative though will.
i have a similar pair of those rubber in-ear-noice-cancelling ones and i will never go back.
^They’re amazing…
I mow lawns in the summer, and when I put them on I can barely hear the mower, all I hear is great tunes! (which isn’t what my boss wants to hear who is a music Nazi, but whatever…)
ya i do landscaping and bush and tre pruning so im always using shears and chainsaws
i have these.
i like them, tons.
they’re they only ones that don’t hurt my small ears and they dont’ fall out!