Recommended "MP3" player for prog use?

I've got an Olympus "M-Robe". It's a bit smaller than the ipod. It comes 5 Gb has a touch panel and a red coloured screen. Awfully quiet though but easy to use and I can satisfy my prog-doses anytime. The battery should last for 18 hours. Usually have to reload after every 5 days. I prefer the ipod though.

There's a lot of mp3 players out there.  Personally, I would avoid the ipod and get something cheaper that does the same thing.  I've seen some portable mp3 players for about $100 that hold 1gb of music, which is a lot of music.  I have an IRiver 256mb mp3 player.  It doesn't hold that much songs..which really depends on the song length and the bit rate which you encode the mp3s.  I like high quality mp3s, so I always encode mine at 192.  Anywho, I refill my mp3 player every couple of weeks, so I always have something new to listen to.  If you get an mp3 player that's a gig or more, you'll be set for at least a month or longer. 

Are you looking to download your mp3s, or make your own?

If you're going to download, there's a lot of sites you can get mp3s from, besides itunes, which is kind of a rip off..99 cents a song :/  I downloaded from www.allofmp3.com and got like 10 albums for about 10 dollars.  The mp3s range from about 5 cents - 25 cents an mp3..I guess it depends on the length of the song.  It's cheper if you get a 128 bit rate versus a 192 bit rate.  You can also get up to 320, which is basically cd quality.  The only downside to www.allofmp3.com is that you have to prepay at least 10 dollars to start downloading.  Also, they have a pretty good selection of prog there.  I downloaded a PFM album, locanda delle fate, and a bunch of camel albums.  So yeah, check em out.