I appreciate the simplicity of the classic iPod. It holds 256GB of music, and it does a great job. I have a little speaker with a cable to plug it into. The only down side, is I have had trouble transferring music from Linux, so I had to resuscitate my old dormant Macbook Air to manage my music. I will have to see if there is a Linux friendly MP3 player out there, when this system eventually falls apart.