My Rio Karma was looking a bit worse for wear and its battery was a shadow of its former self, so I was already considering replacing it... but the other day it was stolen, so I'm most definitely in the market for a new player.
so what i'm looking for is something like:-

• 40-80GB space
• preferably gapless playback
• doesn't have some ridiculous flaw (ex. iriver h340's inability to create playlists without connecting to a computer)
• plays various formats (ex. ogg, flac, wma in addition to mp3)
• isn't an ipod? i don't particularly want to support apple's monopoly, but most other manufacturers seem to be incompetent

i'm not averse to installing rockbox or something if that's what it takes.

I recently bought a Cowon D2 and it's an awesome piece of work. It's a flash memory based player because I wanted the benefits of that. But they also sell hard drive based players, maybe you can find one that meets your requirements on their homepage.

>>8 why do you like it? Does it support >>1's bullet points (aside from 40-80 GB space)?