I’m in the market for a new MP3 player — my second-gen iPod Nano is finally dead, and I don’t want to buy another iPod, or any other player with DRM built in. I figure that any company that wants to devote its engineers to figuring out how to frustrate my desires doesn’t really want my business. Who’d got a suggestion? I’m looking for something: * small (Nano-sized or smaller), * low-capacity (8GB is fine, all I use it for is podcasts), * chargeable and connectable with a standard USB cable, * reasonably rugged, * with an LCD, * capable of marking some files as podcasts or audiobooks and remembering where you stopped playing them, and, * most importantly, I’m looking for something that can be connected to a set of lanyard headphones like these I don’t care if it has WiFi or Bluetooth, or if it plays games, or if it has a “store” on the net that lets me get music for it directly. I just want a chunk of solid-state storage with a headphone jack and a decent menuing syste…[...]

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What MP3 player should I buy?