it depends on what your lookin for, the people that say its the shit and they use it everyday, well you must only listen to it for a few hours.
Ipods only have at most 10 hours of battery life, and thats what i hear from my friends. i listen to my mp3 atleast 6 hours a day usually if im busy. so if i were to have an ipod, i would be fucked the next day cuz it would most likely die if i didnt charge. a lot of my friends have had problems with the shit to, just not charging, or freezing, and you can only put music on it from one comp.
if you go with a diff mp3 player, there is a shitty cassette deck adapter that plugs into the cassette player and has a headphone plug coming out that u can get at most stores, so you woudlnt have to fuck with cds, if you happen to have a cassette player lmfao. im young tho dont got a car so i went with a sony digital walkman, 512 mb. ive had for 2 months and only had to charge it twice. holds about 700 songs but yeah no movies n all that shit. charges thru a usb on the comp. personally for my situation ipods are shit...