Excellent – I had an apple ipod before i got my ZEN and now i have never looked back since. My ipod just started stuffing up only 2 days out of warranty and apple refused to fix it so i just left my ipod at the apple store and walked next door and got a ZEN. I cound not belive how great it is until i started exploring it and found everything that it could do. I can do all the same as an ipod but it has an FM radio in it and it is way cheaper and has a much bigger screen. Please before you by an ipod concider buying the ZEN first it is so much better. FM radio, calander, clock, email contacts list, photos, a huge 16GB storage, expandiable memory, you can have any music format stored on it even ituens files, bright screen, light, compact, great sound when teamed with bose in ear headphone.