Rio Carbon (5 GB) MP3 Player

I've had a Rio Carbon for 9 months. It plays for 20 hours on a recharge. I play it every day and it works great. It has many eq settings and all sorts of catagories to store and file your music. I also use it for my audio books. This player can hold many hours of audio, in book form as well. Ipod blogs in mp3 format play very well also. The software provided works well and is easy to use to load and organize your library of music and/or books. It comes with all cables and software needed to use right out of the box. It also can be powered with ac power as well as the internal batteries. There is a small device that plugs into the wall and the player then operates/recharges thru the usb connector. Strange but it works well.. I love my carbon player because I have complete control over the use of it. I'm not tied to using the itunes software to load my device. It comes with ear buds. I don't like ear buds. You can use any headphones you want. I also have a pillow speaker that I use at night. I just plug in the pillow and listen softly all night.