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I have to say, I've been very tempted by the prospect of a distinct, physical music player. I've always been warded off by the cost, though. At least for the time being. As things stand, I'm increasingly obsessed with audio fidelity, so I wouldn't want to carry around anything that wouldn't play beautiful audio (which would further necessitate an expensive headset, too).
I've been happy with my Surfans F20 player. It plays Ogg Vorbis and FLAC as well as MP3, and since I encode with "oggenc -q 10" everything sounds good even on relatively crappy headphones. The device actually comes with 2 3.5mm jacks: one headphone jack and one line-out jack for connecting to a stereo system or directly to powered speakers. I got mine for $125.