I personally have an Archos JB20, which definitely has a sloppy UI compared to the iPod, but seems to be developing an active user community around an alternative firmware implementation (http://rockbox.haxx.se/)
Cool. Thanks for the link.
I was wondering if anyone would try writing custom firmware for the JB, but had not did a search on the subject in ages.
Thanks again,
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