ive had 3 ipods and now i have a zune and i think theyre a lot better. theyre really dependable too. You dont have to buy music from the marketplace. I use limewire. A real good thing about zune is if you download music from limewire and the song title is wrong or it doesnt have any album art, the zune program searches in the market place for the song you downloaded on limewire and puts the right title, album and picture that goes with the album.