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best player 10-20GB (not iPod)??

Oct 20, 2008 5:54AM PDT

Time to replace my Sony 20GB NW-HD1. I'm really hoping to get some recommendations as to what's good. Not an iPod -- they're lovely but battery life and replace-ability matter to me, and I h8 iTunes. Sorry.

So: battery life, simple file transfer, and a good user interface on the player matter to me. (The Sony, of course, totally sucks in these last two.) Also, I don't want something that is continually going to try to get me to sign up with somebody's music service.

Thanks!

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