I bought the Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra mp3 player about 18 months ago when large capacity mp3 players were few and far between. It seemed like value for money at the time at £230 for a 40 gig player. This is not a bad mp3 player it has reasonable build quality, lots of memory and has worked more than adequately, but that said it is not an outstanding player either. The only two points I can pick it up on would be the headphones which I found to be poor, that's not to say you can't invest in a new pair, and the volume. I know that it probably doesn't go that loud to prevent me from inducing early deafness in myself, but I would like to be able to hear my tracks clearly above moderate background noise.