So, our two-year old mp3 playa broke in a silly way this week, with the power cable connection housing fracturing and breaking from the circuit board. It was a good run. We originally bought the 40gb Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra because it was a high capicity, no-nonsense player with a user replaceable battery and a DRM-free software interface. It's downsides of size and battery life didn't really matter to us; we just wanted to put all of our music on one player and let it play through some speakers at wërkenzie.
Well, a brief tour through the World Wide Web for a new mp3 player showed that Creative had conceded the high-capacity mp3 player market. Dismayed, we anguished between the expensive, fanboy cliché iPod, and the probably shitty Microsoft Zune.
Then inspiration struck us down like a thunderbolt from Baby Jesus herself: buy one of the used 30gb versions floating around Amazon Marketplace (fer $130) and switch out the hard drives! Will this harebrained scheme bring back the sultry sounds of Kraftwerk et. al. to the lab? Will there be some kind of lame 'firmware' problem? We will update you, and we know you will be refreshing this page every 30 seconds until the answer comes!
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