Just acquired an iRiver T30 from Amazon for £61. 512MB is plenty enough for me, plus it's Flash rather than hard-drive so it'll last forever. Battery-wise it's a single AAA so no problems with needing a special charger or anything. And sound quality can only be described as perfect - there's less noise from it than from my hi-fi CD player!

The main reason I got that rather than another was that it has a built-in mic *and* a line-in connector. So we can use it as a dictaphone for notes on songs, or for practising songs on our own, and we can also hook it up to a mixer to record performance. Most MP3 players only have either a mic *or* a line-in connection.

Graham.