Fab little MP3 player

I already have an iPod mini, which I tend to stick on shuffle any way. I thought I'd buy one of these for running. Now it's been delivered I'm so impressed I'm going to get rid of the mini!

- Fairly easy to set up (one hiccup during syncing, but just did Autofill again)
- So light & tiny; you can clip it where ever you want
- Sound quality great with my Sennheiser headphones. Some reviews I've read mention a hissing sound, but I can't hear any thing like that
- Pleased with what I'm getting for the price
- Can't think of any cons

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If you are looking at the 2GB shuffle and are not sure if a 1GB will do, go for the 2GB.I actually upgraded from a 1GB as I got fed up with deleting songs to fit new songs on. With the 2GB you can load around 500 songs which once you are set up with itunes is very easy to do. I haven't actually downloaded any songs from the itunes shop as I have so many cds which I have loaded into itunes library, and this can be done as many times as you like, and if you wish you can completely remove all songs change user name and start again. It is very easy to delete and add songs. The sound quality is awesome regardless of what headphones you use and you can get over twelve hours of playback from charging. I did invest in a sony ipod charger so I can charge independantly from the computer. You can also plug in a speaker jack to listen on small speakers though the quality is quite reduced. All in all an excellent purchase especially at this price.

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I bought a reconditioned one from amazon for a very cheap price. I may not have been quite so impressed if I had paid the full price. It works really well it is robust and hard wearing, light and small. I bought a speaker as well and I am very pleased.

I can't say enough about it

This product is superb and I can't say enough about it.Good value of money

Very limited

Seriously, for the same money you can get something like the Zen Nano which just gives you so much more. I have this and my boyfriend has a Zen Nano, he gets a screen, Dictaphone, radio. Small things like being able to skip whole albums instead of having to go song by song makes a real difference to your listening pleasure. Also you can use it simply as a removable drive, and music is really easy to drop and drag onto it with out faffing around with itunes. I know this as I have this ipod and my partner has the Zen much to his smug delight on a daily basis.

The shuffle works well for what it is but why spend the same for less, put your money into something you'll get a lot more out of.

Surprisingly Fine

How cool is this? Actually if you go to the gym its very cool and the sound quality and volume, useful in a noisy gym, are great too. You can switch it from random to order if you want to sequence your work out as well. Shame about itunes but apart from that its really cool.

excellent machine provided all you want is music

At the time of writing this review there are 68 others already on here, but I thought I would tell you of my own experience with the ipod shuffle.

I go the gym and used to have a MP3 player - just a basic"memory stick" type that I plugged into my computer to recharge and I could drag & drop songs onto. Unfortunately it died so it was time to look for a new one. Now I was undecided whether to buy a basic model by a less well known company, or go for a leading name. It seems to me that if you're prepared to go for a relatively unknown manufacturer you can get a basic mp3 player for half the price with twice the memory, but eventually after much deliberation I plumped for the apple ipod shuffle, swayed by a combination of the reputation of apple & (hopefully) a better build quality.

I have had it just over a week now and I think I have made the right decision.

Yes, there is no screen, but I knew that when I bought it. I know from my prior experience at the gym that I just tend to switch it on and let it play so I didn't really need one. Also, I have a mobile phone that takes pictures, plays videos, games etc and I hardly use any of those features so I figured I wouldn't need a screen to watch tiny videos on. The earphones are great - several reviwers say they fall out but I've used mine on the treadmill, rower, cross trainer, exercise bike and wave machine and they've stayed in throughout! I've got about 14 hours out of it before I had to recharge which is impressive, and although initially I missed the simplicity of the"drag & drop" method of my old mp3 player, its just a question of getting used to itunes and once you have it seems simple enough.

All in all, an excellent purchase and having never had any previous experience of apple or ipods I am very pleased with my purchase.