I took way too many hours just comparing the different colors when I was considering buying it, but I'm glad I did. Pink really is the best color out of the lineup.

I really like the look of the black one with the one little red accent button

I'm a sucker for punchy accent colors lol.

We are not. A few might use this but not the masses.

I will admit that I foolishly thought it was a good thing, because it reminded me of a tricorder—which I wanted more than anything.

Maybe you can try to use Rockbox custom firmware? I learned about this project just the other day watching this video on YouTube: This iPod is built different | @WolfgangsChannel. It made me want to go pick-up my Creative Vision:M at my parents and try to revive it !

Yeah...you need a Win XP machine or vm. Then find the software suite online (Internet Archive mainly)

Does it work with Winamp? Winamp Just Works with a surprising variety of old media players (still) including the ability to load files onto them. It even works with ancient iPods.

Yes. Do eet. There's even FOSS firmware for them now, in the form of rockbox.

Bluetooth on something like this seems nice though... With one of these and a UE BOOM speaker or something, and you can blast your entire music library anywhere. Or even just BT headphones.

Damn, I kind of want one now.

Check-out this video that came out recently on Youtube: This iPod is built different | @WolfgangsChannel

Nope, I think this one is like $50?

Capabilities are a bit disappointing, no gapless playback is pretty terrible

Press once. Scroll by one song once. Don't, err, browse by all songs if you have a decent collection.

Yeah, that would be great! It can't support rockbox due to CPU limitations though, so we'll likely have start from scratch, or at least make an overhaul for there to be OSS support for this.

Huh, in all the excitement, I've appeared to have actually left out the name of the device.

It's a FIIO Snowsky Echo Mini. It's their budget sub-brand lineup featuring their expertise in audio fidelity in as cheap a package everywhere else they could get away with. Not that the product isn't otherwise good. The support (dev communication) is swift on the official forum and firmware is being updated very regularly—about monthly with new features each time.

Well, at least this one only goes for $60.

I've got no issues whatsoever. But I did look up what to do before adding my SD card. The general consensus is that:

1. You should update the firmware when you receive it new out of the box, by connecting it as a usb device and dropping the latest firmware .iso into the root directory. I restarted the device after and it started flashing the firmware all by itself. FIIO had been very active on the firmware updates, fixing a lot of things in the process. I remembered the firmware being 1.3(?) on it before I updated it to 2.4 (yes, very active).
2. You need to format the SD card on the actual device before use, and do it twice. I did that with a reboot in between just in case.
3. Always eject the device/SD card properly. The Mini doesn't handle corrupted audio files elegantly and would crash from what I've read. I never had an issue as I do unmount my SD card/Mini before unplugging from my phone. As an additional precaution, I would also turn the Mini off before ejecting the SD card from the device.

Edit: Remeber to refresh the media library every time you add, remove, or change any audio files. The Mini doesn't do it automatically, which does make sense. The CPU is slow enough that the media refresh can potentially be a multi minute affair. I had to wait about 30 seconds for my meager library of around 11GB to load. Not to worry otherwise though, the UI itself is super responsive so far. Just speculation, but I suppose some of the potential crashes may have happened when someone tried playing a missing file.

It's a DAP and a DAC rolled into one. It's a very versatile device and I do foresee having this in my life for the foreseeable future.

Gross. This is why other countries have stopped sending mail to us.

Well, it doesn't have the charming iconic form factor of the ipod. But it works just as well for a single purpose audio player, and it has a lot of charm in its own way.

Yes, it has huge bezels around. The actual screen is tiny.