iPod or Zen?

Personally, I can't tell the difference between a 320 kbps track and an 80kbps one and that's when playing it through £500 worth of car stereo. I guess my hearing has been destroyed by listening to music the way it should be heard, live and at huge volume.

I have a little iPod shuffle and it's awesome. I load up iTunes, click the playlist I want, hit the synch button and then have seven hours worth of music to listen to. Total time from old music to new music, about a minute. The battery lasts longer than the amount of music that's on there and the number of times I'm away from a USB port for more than 8 hours of constant music listening are fucking rare.

I'm sure if I was some kind of techy obsessive I might be bothered about sound quality and using Explorer to drag little folders about and shit like that but I ain't. I'm just someone who occasionally takes public transport and wanted to listen to music while I did it and the iPod suits me fine.

Jam it back in, in the dark.