Hardware MP3 Players

1. I can't auto update my players - maybe the iPod.
2. I can't easily pull audio off of my players (yes, even if I own it, the vendor risks a huge lawsuit letting me do this).
3. I can't move files easily between my players
4. I have an ass load of proprietary chargers and a bucket of rechargable batteries
5. I can't play books-on-tape that I bought from Audible on all of them
6. In a year, I probably won't be able to even run them on Vista since proprietary device driver whores tend to drop support for older devices between win32 revisions.

I have 5 hardware .MP3 players. In order of purchase, they are:

1. Samsung Yepp NDU 64mb walkman (no FM radio)
2. Audible Otis 64mb walkman .Required to play DRM'd audio books. Stupid DRM. I have 5 players for christ sakes!
3. Apple iPod Mini. It can also play audible DRM'd books, stupid .aac and other DRM'd files. God. This was like my 3rd player. I hate you Apple.
4. Car CD player. It has CD text and album skip and everything! Goodbye, CD changer.
5. Some junky Korean .MP3 walkman with an FM radio I got as a raffle prize.

Of these, only the car stereo component approaches transparent use; they all use different .DRM, they all use different software to update files on them, and none of them use an integrated feature of win32 (like, say, Explorer) to update their contents. None of them have open-source drivers from the manufacturer, AFAIK. I can't just plug them in and have them get recognized. Getting any one of these working in Linux is a pure dork triumph. If you have succeeded, way to go. I pat you on the back. It's not easy hacking USB drivers either.