It's a quality player, very light. Rudimentary when in playback mode use, however when transferring data it thickens! The manual is the image of the object, very basic. We manage as we can ... the interface with itunes and ipod is not intuitive especially when one apprehends its iPod as an external hard disk, which is a mistake. Leave it to itunes which takes care of everything, the data transfer (ripper, name, organize and sync). The iPod appears and disappears from the toolbar according to itunes activity. Ditto when you do a search from your computer to find it with his buddies C and D, not findable ipod, it is not there either. Yes, yes, my usb cord works well, but it takes some time to understand the ... itunes does reappear at the time of synchronization. In short, it works anyway very well when you get used to the Apple hegemony, especially the user's PC that I am ...