[listenhillary]

Have consumers found a way to replace the battery when it eventually dies? What happens when you send it to Apple for service if you have music that isn't "approved"? Do you throw it away instead?

I've seen mostly good comments about the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra series. Up to a 60GB HD. Any opinions?

I've got an Archos AV100 20GB which is a discontinued model. Picked it up for about $180. Seems to worked fine as an MP3 player, 5 hours battery play time and live recording sounds pretty decent. The manual was horrendously badly written. I intended to use it for image storage, but gave up after finding you need to purchase additional "modules".

[eno_]

Have consumers found a way to replace the battery when it eventually dies?

The battery is recharged by the USB port. Lots of consumer electronics have sealed batteries. You will get tired of it before the battery life is reduced to below an acceptable level.

[SamAdams76]

Have consumers found a way to replace the battery when it eventually dies? What happens when you send it to Apple for service if you have music that isn't "approved"? Do you throw it away instead?

Don't believe the horror stories. Replacing the battery is painless and you can get a replacement kit online for about $30 or less and do it yourself at home. It took me all of two minutes to pry my case open to get at the battery with a small screwdriver. It's no big deal. Not that my battery was dead already but I dropped it on the sidewalk (my fault) and the battery had become dislodged. All I did was reseat it and it worked perfectly ever since.