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Nuts.

I have to replace my MP3 player. It's a SanDisk Clip, and it works fine except for one leeeetle problem - it doesn't allow you to fully set the headphone jack, and then, when you've inched it into the exact spot where you can hear the darn thing, all you have to do is wiggle the cord too hard, and no sound. For a person who mostly listens while in the car or on public transportation, that's just a tad inconvenient. Picture me staring down at the thing, carefully tweaking the headphone jack and then rewinding to where I left off, until a cop stops me for drunk driving or my bus or train leaves the station without me. Yeah, annoying. This is the only product so far that I've given one star on Amazon.

I've spent hours over the past few weeks trying to find an MP3 player that (a) is compatible with Audible, (b) is priced low enough to be remotely affordable for me, and (c) is rated well on Amazon and other sites. The final result? The only one I can find is an iPod Nano.

Those of you who have known me for a long time can probably imagine the shudder that goes through me at the thought of owning another iPod. (For those of you who don't know, let's just say that my experience with the iPod in the distant past has been horrendous.)

But I'm going to be stuck with it, I think. Arrrrgh. Back to the misery of iPods and iTunes and all that AppleCrappy.