Purchased for my 9 yr old.  Very durable, nice sound.  Easy for him to upload songas and change then often.  Great value for the price...get it.  The Sansa Clip is the best value I found for his birthday.  The MP3 is durable he has dropped it and still plays grea.  Surprising how good the earphones are too.  It is so small it goes right into his pocket and away we go, but it is easy to lose too :-)

Buy this one it is worth every penny...great sound...fun for your first player.  Lots of great places online to get it for a wonderful value.  Black goes with everything.