> It's a shame there's no standout replacement. I felt the same way for a very long time, and still have both an iPod Video and Classic to prove it, but what's

> It's a shame there's no standout replacement. I felt the same way for a very long time, and still have both an iPod Video and Classic to prove it, but what's done it for me is a data plan way bigger than I need and iTunes Match. Obviously that fails to meet one very specific requirement - offline availability - but I do keep a decent subset synced to my iPhone for offline listening, which itself is pretty rare. If anything, I prefer the iPhone's interface for finding stuff deep in my library since I can just type out the name of a track or ask Siri to play it.