For those of you not familiar, this is a CD player. It does more than that, though. When you burned MP3s onto a CD-R, this would play them. At a high quality bitrate, you could fit about 120 songs which was about twice as much as common, more expensive MP3 players were touting (and then you couldn't "swap out" a medium for more music).

After buying/trying many CD MP3 players, I ended up with this one around 2003. It lacked the detailed interface of its predecessors, but it did a few things very very well.

• Runs for 40 hours on 2 AA batteries; 90 hours on lithium.
• Near-silent operation.
• Bass Boost actually worked and sounded clear.
• Did not break.

I won this thing at a company raffle in 2010. At 8 GB worth of storage it was a significant downgrade from the 60 GB iPod Color I'd purchased four years prior. I was used to having all of my music in one device; I didn't want to go back to figuring out what I was most likely to listen to and cull half of my inventory (maybe if it took an external SD card things would be different...), so I gave it to my wife.

While it had whiz-bang features like Wifi and the ability to download apps and games, it lacked the ability to be used as an external hard drive. It registered to the PC as a phone and none of its contents could be accessed, or other content placed. The use of iTunes had already left me sour and it still wouldn't let me use my own file structure for my music! I have a large collection of compilation albums as well as a large number of bands with over 10 albums. When my music is categorized by their track tags, it is a nightmare for me.

Also, people often call it an iTouch. This seems weird to me.