Apple iPod Video or Creative Zen Vision:M

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As title really, i've been using a Sony NW-HD3 for the past couple of years and i'm absoloutely sick of SonicStage. Tonight I decided i'd format the drive and upload all my new music but I can't get the PC to recognise it.

Dunno whether to go for the iPod or the Vision:M, does anyone have experience with them?

I'm not really bothered about the whole video thing to be honest but I guess it's a nice extra. Most important is reliability, and the ease of transferring files. Size is important too.

Cheers.

 

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Think i'm going to go for the iPod, just wondering though, has anyone used any of the alternative software for transferring files?

I keep all my music on a seperate hard drive and don't really want to be importing them across to my main drive just for the sake of it. Also if I was to reformat i'd loose all my songs in iTunes? Seems stupid...