The little Creative Neeon 512mb decided to pack up today. Ugh. If I knew all the stuff I just read on the Creative forums I'd probably have sprung for a different player.

See, I don't need all that organising junk. I just want something small that plays music, period. No ripping, no fancy recording, no radio. Just something that can recharge via USB, and that I can drag-drop songs from my pc to. The Neeon does that, and I was happy with it, but I'm certainly not happy to read about how crappy they are.

Mine just went south during a recharge session. I periodically press the play/pause button to see if the indicator is still showing the "lightning bolt" recharge icon, or if it's already showing the "connected" icon (which means it's already fully charged), so that I can unplug it - I don't like to leave things to get overcharged. Anyway, I press it and poof! Display stays dark. Disconnect, try to power up, still dark. Reconnect, pc says unrecognised USB device. What the hell. Time to visit teh intarweb. A couple minutes' reading later... ugh.

I can still listen to music from my Dopod, but that's a cellphone not a music player, and I don't want it running out of juice halfway through the day. Now I've got to go RMA that thing, bleh.