That ended up being a bad decision. When I got the Sony MP3 player home, it was incredibly frustrating and cumbersome to get music loaded onto it. I had to load this special program and then learn how to navigate all these commands to first import the files from my hard drive (into the special program) and then to push them into the device. Using a 1.1 USB interface, it took about 10 minutes to load about 30 songs (about three or four albums worth of music).
Once the music was on the device, there was no easy way to bring up what you wanted to hear. There was a limited display and you had to wait as the song title and artist slowly crawled across the tiny screen. I very quickly got tired of hearing the songs you loaded but it was such a painful experience putting new songs on it, I didn't bother after the first 2-3 times. The device was about the size and weight of an empty cigarette lighter. It did not take long for the device to get all scuffed up. Within just a few weeks, I put it on a shelf and forgot about it.
Now I own iPods, several of them. Had I known better back in 2003, I'd have bought all the Apple shares that I could have afforded.
That was 2003. These days you can buy a good MP3 player at 20% the price of an ipod. Heck, you can buy them for 5-10% the price of an iPod.
You will hate this example but ——
A few years ago I bought a few generic MP3 players for $5 each. They have 500mb of storage. This is more than I need actually because I only use it when out walking or jogging. I plug it into my computer and transfer a few tunes same as I would with a flash drive. I use no special software
So for me at least..... Why on earth would I spent $150 on an iPod?