As many of you know, I have been a huge fan of the Rhapsody subscription service for quite so time now.

When I need my music “to go” I have so far relied on my sansa m250. Still, the software glitches have made the thing unusable lately with far too many “synchronize to continue” and disk reformatting to make it worthwhile.

So I decided to look for.a portable light player that I could use in my running training. Ipods were out of the question as I wanted to opt out of the itunes ecosystem, and the shuffle does not have a display.

I decided to get a sansa clip at my local Best Buy. So far so good… very light, easy to set up, has good sound and a nice display.

So far I have gotten no error messages… fingers crossed… maybe subscription based portable devices are ready for mass market.

Sometimes clumsy DRM just slows down success.