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why would someone want a hard drive based player when the flash based player holds the same amount of songs? Just curious.

Assuming that you're talking same amount of storage (a flash based player can hold plenty of songs... if you encode them at a really low bit rate... ), at the moment the price-per-megabyte for flash is more expensive than the price-per-megabyte for hard disk storage.

I agree that solid state storage media is better. If only it weren't so expensive, still. Maybe one day the balance will shift and we'll start seeing some kind of solid state storage that is cheaper than winchester technology.

And regarding the 10,000 song capacity for a flash player quoted in that article... well, keep in mind that you're looking at a rumor site posting second hand information based on what was allegedly a work-in-progress web page that was not anything close to official and wasn't meant to be seen by public eyes. It could have simply been a typo on the original web page, or they could be lying.