The whole digital audio player / MP3 player product category, before the middle-end got hollowed out. As far as I can tell, the choice is now between dodgy sub

The whole digital audio player / MP3 player product category, before the middle-end got hollowed out. As far as I can tell, the choice is now between dodgy sub-$30 knockoffs and gold-plated audiophile gear. Since the buttons fell off my Yepp, I'm much less able to carry around my music collection than I was ten years ago. I used to get 30 hours of playback from a unit that was only slightly bigger than its double-A battery. (So what if I could only carry 10 hours of music? It had an FM radio!)