Service Pack 3, new mp3 player

I am upgrading to Service Pack 3 even as we speak.

This could be the beginning of the end. I am very suspicious of comments about DRM in the EULA.

Oh, and I wanted to mention another tech thing. My mp3 player could not be updated, and it could not be fixed, even by jenaflynn. So, sort of on the spur of the moment, I bought a new-to-me one on craigslist. It's a Rio Carbon 5g, and so far it seems pretty cool. (I bought it already and can't return it, so please hold your "Rio sucks!" comments if any. I got it for a specific short-term purpose which I'm sure it will be fine for.)

Some things I like about it: power and volume buttons stick out of the holder, volume much more sensitive than my previous player, big memory, didn't cost much.

Some things I don't like about it as much: how to change the date is not obvious, not all the songs I load are showing up, battery charge doesn't seem to last terribly long. I imagine most of these are fixable once I RTFM.

i love it...

When I can solve my own technical issues.

Even if it's something like "your mp3 player will not support formats that it is not designed to support." Thank you, that is very helpful.

Downloading conversion software... now. :)

ETA: Oh, yeah. And the battery life issue is somewhat mitigated by the fact that syncing the player with the computer also charges it.