iPod Alternatives for Mac OS X?

pazu13 writes "I had a first-generation iPod which treated me badly and finally died, after roughly two years of use. I bought another one last year, but after a battery failure several months ago and a sad iPod icon this morning, I think it's time to take my business elsewhere. However, I own a Mac (which has treated me well), and Apple's market dominance seems to have driven most competitors from their own platform. XNJB appears to provide Mac-users more freedom of choice, but outside of this does anyone have a good recommendation for a non-Apple Mac OS X-compatible MP3 player?"

Comments

Compatible with OSX, or *iTunes*?

[mrchaotica]

If you just want something you can use with a Mac, that's easy: get any music player that supports being mounted as a removable disk and having music added to it via the Finder (or other filesystem utility).

If, on the other hand, you want a player that syncs with iTunes like an iPod does... that's probably harder to find.