Really? iPod has been the only choice for me ever. It does everything your asking for, most other mp3 players do the song part right, but not anything else your asking for. Only other option I can think of is a Zune. ", and be able to scroll through them and load big play lists quickly, without lag, or skipping or anything" ^Most cheap Mp3's don't do anything like this, I had 6 different ones before my iPod, all from Samsung, Sony, and some other shit company (Coby much?). They all sorted songs in a horrible fashion, memory was lackluster, and in one extreme case would take up to a minute to load lists. They just aren't reliable for me. Your experience with the Creative Zen Mosiac, is pretty much world-wide with most other Mp3s.