I don't know if there's a real market for simple audio-players, but I surely would buy one. I don't need e-ink display (simple LED like Sansa Clip+ is nice), or

I don't know if there's a real market for simple audio-players, but I surely would buy one. I don't need e-ink display (simple LED like Sansa Clip+ is nice), or even 10TB of memory. Hell, thinking of it, Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox is almost perfect. The only thing I don't really like is form-factor. And rockbox itself isn't prefect. But there is no real choice: I don't know any other player that would support every necessary audio-format and just play music. Granted, ability to sync tracks/playlists over the internet with what you have on your server it huge improvement, but I still cannot convince myself that it's worth carrying my phone around all the time. I don't see any real need for a "new iPod" now though. Yeah, SSD slots for new phones are a bit less common than they should be, nut it's still bearable. For me the phone itself is what's inconvenient, not the absense of your whole audio-library on it all the time (browsing it on the phone would be painful anyway).