Shuffle 'em up!

Quite a while ago when the shuffle came out, I told myself I would get one when the price dropped enough to be considered reasonable. So last week when I came across one on ebay for only $50 for the 512mb I had to get it. It's just so sleek and tiny and now it's sitting in the palm of my hand.

DAY 1 review: My tiny little friend and I set out for a full day of work; with about 150 songs on my belt I was curious to see if I would here a song twice all day, and if the battery would handle 8 hours straight. Surprise, surprise, I don't recall hearing a single duplicated song, and the battery light shows that it is still at almost full juice. Like any device it has its faults,, all of which I was aware of before hand. Coming across a great new song you have never heard before can be frustrating considering you don't have a screen telling you what the track is. Also iTunes is required for loading your songs(there are other ways but the shuffle was designed to work only with iTunes)this has it's good points and its bad points. Bad - all of your mp3's must be converted into the aac format when loading them, this means it can take several minutes to load your songs. Good - iTunes will change the bitrate of your songs to 128 if you want while converting to aac, this means you can pack more songs into your player. Also good, iTunes can randomly choose songs from your music library to fill your shuffle in just one click.
All and all, after day 1 I'm happy with my purchase, and I recommend it to anyone that needs a mp3 player that is tiny and light to carry around all day.