EndreWhiteMane: 256gb is a whole lifetime of MP3s. What model player do you have?
akhliber: I have been slowly-but-surely transitioning from MP3s to FLACs/lossless, and as a result they take up much more room (hence getting this particular player) but it still holds an absurd amount of music, especially now that I've maximized its current potential.
It's a FiiO X5, which I can't recommend highly enough, though I will say that mine is a "first generation" and I would really only recommend the 2nd gen model, unless you don't mind tinkering with firmware and dealing with minor bugs and such. I adore this one for what it is, but it was clearly their first attempt at such a player in a western market, and the default UI is a bit non-intuitive, some other minor things like that. But there's a great community over on the "head-fi-dot-org" forums that share custom firmwares with improved UIs and such.
The benefit of the 2nd gen model (which they released at the same price, so if you're new to the product, there's no reason not to get the newer one) is that they'd had the time to iron out a lot of these issues with the head-fi community, their customer base at large etc, and from what I've read it's just an all-around improvement.
It's really nice, as it not only allows for 256gb of storage currently, firmware updates should allow for more in the near future. The model I have originally only supported two 64gb cards, but they improved the firmware the be more compatible with newer cards. They play just about any format of audio file you can throw at them, which is quite nice. (
http://fiio.net/en/fiio)
I just noticed they have an "X7" model out now, which if I recall, when testing the X5, we were told the X7 was going to be Android-based, so that may really appeal to some (not so much to me, I don't think.) But I haven't read up on it yet and only vaguely remember them mentioning it several months back, so the site's a better source of info than me. :)
CarrionCrow: I totally get the overload thing. It sucks really, really badly, even without the finisher of a smashed hand.
akhliber: It really does. Frustrating as hell. I really only know how to make light of it, but that's pretty much true of everything in life. But to step out of the smile-and-wave box for a moment, holy hell yes, it can suck. A lot worse than some throbby-fangers. ;)
VQF or bust.