OMG, FINALLY SOMEONE BUYS AN iRIVER! Really, you are like the 2nd person thats bought an iriver on their own will (usually I end up convincing people to buy iriver instead of an ipod, I have good reason to too). Anyways, make sure you have v2.51 firmware becuase the older versions are really buggy. And the headphones aren't the greatest, but compared to the ipod, its like night and day. Oh and make sure you charge it for like a day, otherwise you'l learn the hard way (beleive me, I know....) that your battery will be about 50% of its potential. Oh and try to encode songs at 120-192kbs, anything over just DRAINSSSS battery like a mofo. And skinning is now available, but pretty difficult to do on it so you can change pretty much every image in the system. But like I said, its pretty hard to do and you can brick it easily. So all in all, yes, worth it very much so, especially for a $200 price tag.